Ingredients

  • 6 cups vegetable stock
  • 2 cups pumpkin puree
  • 1 cup onion thinly sliced
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 1 tablespoon seasoning Plimoth Plantation
  • 1 sugar pumpkin medium
  • 1/2 cup yellow split peas
  • 1/2 cup soy cream
  • fresh flat leaf parsley Chopped, to garnish

Method

  • In a covered saucepan, heat the stock, pumpkin puree, onion, garlic, yellow split peas and Plimoth Plantation Seasoning to boiling; reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, 1 hour.
  • Measure out cream and allow it to come to room temperature while your soup is simmering.
  • Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
  • Cut the top off the sugar pumpkin and remove the seeds.
  • Place the pumpkin on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes; set aside in a warm spot.
  • Carve out about 2 cups of the pumpkin meat and mash with a potato masher and add it to the simmering soup.
  • If you want the texture of your soup to be silken use an immersion blender in the pot for a final puree.
  • Stir in cream and simmer for another 10 minutes.
  • Place the warmed sugar pumpkin on a platter; ladle the soup in.
  • Garnish with parsley and serve hot.