Gingery Roasted Pumpkin, Tomato and Chickpea Soup

Gingery Roasted Pumpkin, Tomato and Chickpea Soup

Gingery Roasted Pumpkin, Tomato and Chickpea Soup

By: Meg Thompson

Adding chickpeas or any other legumes to your soup ensures a lovely serve of protein that makes your soup more sustaining and balancing on your blood sugar.


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Recipe


Ingredients

  • 600g pumpkin, peeled, deseeded & cut into 5cm chunks
  • 250g cherry tomatoes
  • 1 large brown onion, diced
  • 1 tbsp ghee, butter or coconut oil if vegan
  • ¾ finely grated tbsp ginger
  • 1 large clove garlic, crushed
  • ¼-½ tsp harissa, plus extra to serve
  • 1 cup cooked chickpeas
  • 3 cups stock or broth
  • 3 tbsp yoghurt or coconut yoghurt
  • ½ fresh lime
  • ½ pomegranate
  • 3 tbsp pumpkin seeds, lightly toasted

Method


  • Place pumpkin on lined baking tray and drizzle with a little oil.
  • Add tomatoes to separate tray, drizzle with a little oil and pop into oven with pumpkin at 180°C for around 20 mins, or until pumpkin is cooked. You may need to remove tomatoes earlier as they will cook more quickly, so keep an eye on them.
  • Add onion and ghee/oil to medium–large saucepan over medium heat and cook until soft.
  • Add ginger and cook for 2–3 mins, stirring often.
  • Add garlic and cook for 1 min, then add harissa, chickpeas, roasted pumpkin, tomatoes and stock, and cook at a low, slow bubble for around 10 mins, until all flavours have combined nicely.
  • Remove from heat and blitz soup with stick blender.
  • Taste and add salt and extra harissa if needed.
  • Serve in bowls and top with dollop of yoghurt, squeeze of lime, pomegranate and pumpkin seeds as desired.

  

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Meg Thompson

Meg Thompson

Meg Thompson is a practising naturopath, cook, mother, writer and passionate wholefood enthusiast based in Melbourne. Meg’s interest in health, food and the role of food as medicine has shaped her career and lifestyle. Following an early career in psychology and education, she completed studies in naturopathy, nutrition and herbal medicine and now runs a successful clinical practice. Meg works from a philosophy that food is much more than something to fill our bellies, but a source of nourishment, deliciousness, education, ritual and celebration, best shared with those we love.

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