Pumpkin soup Belonika is a dish that everyone will like. It can be cooked with bacon or make a vegetarian option. The dish turns out with a rich taste and bright aroma. And its color is simply amazing. This soup is served with toasted pumpkin seeds. It is not only tasty, but also beautiful. How to cook Belonika pumpkin soup.
What is required for cooking
To prepare Belonika pumpkin soup, you will need:
- 2 kg of pumpkin.
- 1 tomato.
- 3 cloves of garlic.
- 2 stalks of celery.
- 1 onion head.
- Red hot and black ground pepper.
- Parsley.
- Pumpkin seeds.
- Grated Parmesan.
- 150 g of bacon.
- White bread.
- Olive oil.
Belonika: recipes
Pumpkin soup can be prepared without grated Parmesan and bacon. It will turn out a vegetarian dish. His taste will not be affected. If desired, parmesan can be replaced with cheese made on the basis of plant components. In this case, the product is better to take sharp.
What to cook pumpkin soup, you need to prepare the products. First, prepare the vegetables. Onions should be peeled and cut. The same thing should be done with celery. If you have fennel on hand, then you should add it to the dish. Hot peppers also need to be washed and cleaned by carefully removing all the seeds. Do not add too much of this component to the dish.
Garlic must be peeled and crushed. It is recommended to cut the bacon, and then put in a pan. It should be flooded a little, but not fry. After that, you need to add garlic to the container and put out everything. Prepared vegetables should also be poured here.
What to do next
Pumpkin soup-puree "Belonika" should be prepared in accordance with the sequence. While the vegetables are stewed, you can prepare the main component. The pumpkin should be peeled, while removing the seeds with a spoon and cutting off the skin. Only the pulp of the vegetable adds to the soup. It should be cut into large enough cubes, and then lay out to the stewed foods. It is also worth cutting the tomato. It is necessary to remove the peel and seeds. After that, the tomato should be put in vegetables and slightly stewed.
Cooking soup
Pumpkin soup "Belonika" is also vegetarian. To prepare such a dish, you need to do everything described above without adding bacon to it. Stewed vegetables should be transferred to the pan. It also needs to pour a few glasses of boiling water. Ideally, in such a dish you need to add vegetable, meat or chicken broth. If they are not, then you can pour boiling water.
When the liquid is added, you need to place the container on a slow fire and put out everything for 20 minutes. At the same time, the components should be mixed regularly so that nothing sticks to the bottom and does not burn.
After the specified time, transfer the resulting mixture to a blender and grind everything. The result should be mashed potatoes. If the bowl does not allow, then you can put the soup into it in parts. The resulting puree should be poured back into the pan. Now you need to achieve a pleasant consistency. If the puree is very thick, then you can pour a little boiled water into it. If liquid, then put out a little more, stirring regularly.
How to Serve Vegetarian Puree Soup
Pumpkin soup Belonika, the preparation of which is described above, is ready. It remains to decorate and serve. If you cooked a vegetarian version (without bacon), then you can lightly fry the peeled pumpkin seeds and put them on top of the mashed potatoes. It is recommended to make crackers out of white bread by drying it in a pan without adding oil. Also, ready-made soup can be sprinkled with chopped herbs.
How to serve a bacon dish
If the puree soup is made with bacon, then it can be served as a vegetarian dish. From above you can sprinkle it with chopped herbs and fried peeled pumpkin seeds. In addition, ordinary crackers made of white bread can be replaced with delicious croutons. They are prepared quickly and easily. For starters, cut white bread. It is better to grind it with cubes. Each piece is recommended to sprinkle with olive oil. White bread should be put on a baking sheet. Bacon - chop. Slices should be laid on top of white bread. It is necessary to bake croutons at a temperature of at least 250 ° C.
The baking sheet should first be covered with foil or baking paper. It is not recommended to leave the oven, as bread can quickly brown. When the pieces have a golden hue, sprinkle them with grated Parmesan. Cheese should be baked, but not burned. After this, white bread sticks should be placed in the center of the bowl with pumpkin soup.
Is such a soup good?
According to experts, pumpkin soup is very useful. After all, such a dish is universal according to indications. Pumpkin soup allows you to cleanse the kidneys and liver, strengthen the walls of blood vessels, normalize heart function, maintain youthfulness, calm the nervous system, and improve vision. A dish will be useful during pregnancy. Pumpkin soup allows you to speed up the metabolic processes in the body, get rid of anemia, hypovitaminosis, toxicosis and increased fragility of hair and nails.