Pumpkin and chickpea soup is a simple and tasty first course, you can prepare it with either dried chickpeas, which you need to soak for 10/12 hours and then boil, or you can use pre-cooked jarred chickpeas. The pumpkin and chickpea soup is also delicious served with slices of toasted bread, perhaps flavored with garlic. You can serve it thick or more liquid; just adjust the consistency by adding vegetable broth. If you also love chickpeas, I recommend checking out other RECIPES WITH CHICKPEAS. Now let’s see how to prepare the pumpkin and chickpea soup, and if you try it, let me know. Barbara
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- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons, Fall, Winter
Ingredients
- 17.5 oz cooked chickpeas (or 7 oz dried chickpeas)
- 5.3 oz pumpkin (weight cleaned)
- Half onion
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
- 4 cups vegetable broth
Tools
- Blender
How to make pumpkin and chickpea soup
Let’s start preparing the pumpkin and chickpea soup. If you use dried chickpeas, you need to soak them for at least 10 hours and then boil them, I’ll explain how to do it in this recipe.
Clean the pumpkin of seeds and peel and cut it into small pieces. Also, clean the onion and chop it, peel the potato and cut it into small pieces as well.
Place the boiled chickpeas, pumpkin pieces, potato, and onion in a pot, cover with vegetable broth and let it cook for 15/20 minutes. The cooking time varies depending on the size of the potato and pumpkin pieces. To check if they are cooked, pierce them with a fork; if the fork goes in easily, then both the pumpkin and potato are cooked.
Once the pumpkin and potato are cooked, adjust the salt, add extra virgin olive oil, and blend with an immersion blender until smooth. Add more vegetable broth if you prefer a less dense soup.
Serve the pumpkin and chickpea soup hot.
How to store pumpkin and chickpea soup
Store it in the refrigerator for 2/3 days
