Pumpkin - Ginger Soup - Olive the Best

You can do a lot more with pumpkin than making a jack-o'-lantern... and we all should.

Including pumpkin in your diet has so many benefits. It helps improve your vision, lowers cancer risk, can give you an immunity boost (great time as cold season comes) and it actually helps you feel fuller longer.
Rich in potassium, pumpkins are a heart healthy food because they help regulate your blood pressure, lowering risk for heart attack and stroke. There's also a good dose of vitamin C, fiber and antioxidants all good for the heart.

4 cups pumpkin Hokkaido is best

2 potatoes

2 small onion

2 glove of garlic

2 carrot

1 ½ inches of fresh ginger

1 tsp chili flakes

2 tbsp Olive the Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil

½ cup dry white wine

Styrian Pumpkins Seed Oil for drizzle before serving

Styrian Pumpkin Seeds for garnish

Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds and cut the flesh in equal pieces.

Peel the potatoes and cut them.

Peel and cut the onion, the clove of garlic and the ginger into cubes.

Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and stew in it the onion, garlic and ginger cubes.

Add the pumpkin and potato pieces, stirring and douse with white wine. Add the chile flakes.

Cook the pumpkin soup on medium heat for 15 minutes and puree it then with a blender.

Ladle soup into warm bowls then drizzle with Styrian pumpkin seed oil and sprinkle with Styrian pumpkin seeds.

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Pumpkin – Ginger Soup