Superb Pumpkin And Goat Cheese Soup

Total Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 lbs pie pumpkin, seeded, peeled and diced
• 3/4 cup onion, chopped
• 4 garlic cloves, cloves cut into quarters
• 4 1/2 cups fish stock or 4 1/2 cups chicken stock
• 1/2 cup goat cheese
• 1 1/4 cups cream (optional)
• 5 leaves fresh basil, sliced
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste
• 1 halibut fillet (optional)

Recipe

• 1 roast pumpkin, onions, and garlic in a roasting pan with a bit of olive oil. in a soup pot, put the roasted items and turn to medium heat.
• 2 add 3/4 of the stock and simmer for up to 45 minutes, or until fully cooked. put in a food processor and blend until smooth.
• 3 blend in small amounts of the goat cheese along with the cream if desired.
• 4 adjust thickness with the leftover stock.
• 5 add more cream if desired and finish seasoning with herbs, salt, and pepper.
• 6 if you add a filet of your chosen fish, pan-fry it first with oil, salt and pepper, then add it to the soup.