Pumpkin soup

[catsittingstill]

So I have this can of cooked pumpkin mash that has been sitting around the house.  And I was thinking about making pumpkin pie, but, well, hadn't yet.  And I thought "I wonder if you can make pumpkin soup?" and that thought went away before I mustered the gumption to do anything about it.  And a couple of days later I thought "I wonder if coconut milk would be nice in pumpkin soup?"  And that thought went away before I mustered the gumption... and then this afternoon I thunk the thought again and looked it up on the internet and lo and behold people do put coconut milk and pumpkin together in various ways.

So I took two cups of pumpkin mash and a can of coconut milk and stirred the liquid into the mush.  Then I took about a teaspoon each of ginger nutmeg, cardamom and cinnamon and stirred them into two tablespoons of sugar and scattered that over the surface and stirred it in.  It's heating now.  We'll see.

Comments

[infobits.livejournal.com]

There is a lower fat version of cocu\onut milk available ... but that'd probably take out a lot of the flavor and alter the texture.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think I would go with one of the low(er) fat versions of regular milk first.

Funny--I hadn't thought of cocoanut milk having fat--but cocoanuts certainly do!

Some recipes on the web call for chicken stock, also (of course, that can certainly have fat in it.)

I think over all 1% milk might be the way to go for a lower calorie version. Maybe I'll try a smaller version tomorrow with that and curry as corbaegirl suggests above.