Recipe- Delicious Butternut Pumpkin Soup

Butternut pumpkin is found often in Fairprice and it resembles more like the round regular yellow pumpkin, only that, butternut pumpkin looks really smooth and the shape is also very different. It is said that this is a fruit rather vegetable. Very nutritious and the texture when cooked as soup is really smooth. No wonder they named it butternut pumpkin. This is also known as butternut squash.

Ingredients

Butternut pumpkin, cubed – 1 & 1/2 cup
Carrot, sliced – 1/2 cup
Onion – 1/4, cubed
Garlic – 2 cloves
Cumin, ground – 1 tsp
Butter/ olive oil – 2 tsp
Black pepper – as needed
Salt – as needed

Method

* Peel skin of butternut pumpkin and carrot. Cut and measure both. Chop onion roughly.

* In a small pressure cooker, heat butter/ oil and sautee garlic and onion just for a minute. Add cumin powder. Fry for a minute in medium heat.

* Add the chopped veggies and continue cooking for 2 mins.

* Add 1 cup water and pressure cook for 2-3 whistles.

* Once, done, add salt. Use an immersion blender and grind smoothly.