Rainy Days and Apple & Pumpkin Soup

It rained the whole of yesterday, making Singapore uncharacteristically cool. For the first time in a long time, I lay awake under the covers listening to the comforting sound of raindrops smashing against the pavement. It being such a chilly day, I decided to make warm apple and pumpkin soup for dinner.

the raw ingredients: pumpkin, tart apples, onion and garlic

toasted almonds

Apple and pumpkin soup garnished with a swirl of cream and toasted almonds

Apple Pumpkin Soup Recipe


Ingredients


2 onions

1 clove garlic, chopped

2 apples, diced

½ pumpkin

olive oil

low-fat milk

curry powder

1 tsp. nutmeg

white pepper

salt

Method


1. Preheat large soup pot. Drizzle with olive oil. Add diced onion and garlic and sauté until onions are translucent.

2. Add pumpkin, apples, nutmeg and curry powder then fill with enough water to cover 3/4 of the ingredients. Simmer for 20 minutes over medium heat. 

3. Let it cool, then use a submersible blender to blend soup until it is smooth. You can also use your blender to blend the soup in batches.

4. Add milk (or cream) to thin out the soup and add salt and pepper to taste. Then reheat before serving and garnish with sliced almonds, pumpkin seeds, dried apple slices or hazelnuts.

Rainy days and broken butterfly wings: I freaked out when I saw its silhouette in the dark but it turned out that Zhen, being the animal saviour that he is, found a butterfly that had injured its wing in the rain so he brought it in to shelter it.