A 20-minute soup that looks and tastes like a restaurant dish.
This Creamy Pumpkin Soup is smooth, elegant and can be whipped up in 20 minutes – perfect for a chilly football night when it’s just you in your sweats. Then there's plenty leftover to take for a portable lunch the next day. Serving it for a crowd? This recipe is easy to double.
Don't let the number of spices daunt you. Just use whatever you have. And this recipe is silky without an immersion blender needed. Serve it with hearty sandwiches, grilled cheeses, Reubens, sliced grilled pork tenderloin or even chicken wings.
While it looks fancy, it’s my son’s favorite soup hands down – over potato soup, chili, or vegetable soup. The complex but subtle notes of orange, cinnamon, cloves and vanilla give this pumpkin soup high marks for flavor.
I start with butter and the spices to blend them together like a roux and heat them to deepen the flavors. Cocoa and peanut butter are the surprise elements.
Cocoa makes this pumpkin soup extra cozy!
It looks like a lot of ingredients, but it comes together quickly.
Creamy Pumpkin Soup
Recipe Ingredients
Everything you'll need for this delicious recipe is below.
½ stick butter
1 t Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 t cinnamon
¼ t ginger
½ t turmeric
½ t curry
½ t cumin (Comino)
¼ t cloves
¼ t nutmeg
¼ t vanilla extract
1 t salt
¼ t cayenne pepper
½ t garlic powder
2 T brown sugar (generous)
2 T peanut butter
1T cocoa powder
1 orange (juice and zest)
2 cans pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling which is sweet, just 100% pumpkin)
1 c heavy whipping cream
1 c chicken broth
Preparation Instructions
1. Melt butter in large saucepan or pot.
2. Add seasonings and brown sugar and stir on low heat for 1-2 minutes.
3. Add peanut butter and stir until melted. Then add cream, broth, pumpkin.
4. Zest the orange rind finely and then juice the orange. Add zest and juice to pot.
5. Heat soup on low heat for 15 minutes to meld the flavors.
Top it with your choice of garnishes -- toasted pumpkin seeds, chopped dried cranberries or dried cherries, diced fresh apples, chives, a drizzle of cream or crumbled goat cheese, crisped sage leaves, even chopped chestnuts.
If you’re serving it for a crowd, you can put out mugs of soup and the topping options, so everyone can customize their own. This soup pairs well with our Amped Up Grilled Cheese.
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