Pumpkin Soup Joumou
By: Zomppa
Published: Sunday, October 31, 2010 - 5:53am

Ingredients




1 pound lb corned beef or 1 beef stew meat
– water
1 1/2 pounds pumpkin, peeled& diced
2 turnips, diced
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 sprig parsley
1 sprig thyme
3 garlic cloves, crushed
1 cup milk
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon butter
3/4 cup rice, washed (uncooked, not instant)
salt
3/4 teaspoon pepper
4 teaspoons butter
1 bunch of spaghetti

Preparation

1 Put meat in a pot with generous amounts of water and bring to a boil for 1 hour. 2 When the meat is tender, add pumpkin, water, salt and pepper to the large pot and bring to a boil. 3 Add the potatoes and cloves to the pot. 4 Reduce the heat to medium and cover and simmer until the pumpkin is tender. 5 Add carrots, turnips, cabbage, nutmeg, lemon juice and salt and pepper. 6 Reduce heat to medium low and let it simmer. 7 Stir in the pasta, parsley and let it simmer as you prepare your serving bowls. 8 The wonderful thing about this soup is you can be creative. For example, if you have a wheat allergy, you can use rice spaghetti as a great alternative (be sure you use rice and not corn based products)! Some Haitians even add rice to their recipe. 9 Another idea – try roasting the pumpkin as well as butternut and acorn squash until golden in color. Sautee the roasted squash in a pan and add salt, pepper and a ½ teaspoon of Olive Oil for flavor. When ready, add roasted squash to pot of boiling meet and follow recipe above.

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