{"id":157,"date":"2012-06-28T14:05:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T04:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/?p=157"},"modified":"2012-06-28T22:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T12:53:33","slug":"thai-curry-pumpkin-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Thai curry pumpkin soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/?p=157\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Having coffee and talking with (listening to) fellow school Mums can be a broadening, enlightening, embarrassing, funny experience and somehow or other food and recipes are in the mix well and truly. Again, food is such a unifying thing!<br \/>\nToday I discovered that some soups I cooked for the school teachers a few weeks ago are still being talked about. So, with that encouragement, the cold weather and being told I HAD to include some recipes, I am sharing my recipe for Thai Curry pumpkin soup, although not with the 4kg quantity of pumpkin I used for the teachers&#8217; lunch! (and yes pumpkin is more than animal feed).<\/p>\n<p>Thai Curry Pumpkin Soup \u00a0 \u00a0 Serves 4 usually<\/p>\n<p>Ing:<br \/>\n2 tsp vegetable oil\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Water<br \/>\n1 kg peeled Jap* or Kent pumpkin cut into chunks.<br \/>\n1 &#8211; 2 tablespoons of Thai red curry paste<br \/>\n1 vegetable stock cube<br \/>\n1 tbs palm sugar or brown sugar<br \/>\n270ml lite coconut milk<br \/>\n1 kaffir lime leaf<br \/>\n2 tsp fish sauce ( I did not use this when cooking this as a vegetarian dish)<br \/>\n1\/3 cup chopped coriander<br \/>\n1 tsp grated fresh ginger<\/p>\n<p>Method:<br \/>\nHeat oil in a saucepan and gently fry 1 tbs of the paste for a minute (add more paste later to taste as pastes vary in heat).<br \/>\nStir in pumpkin chunks so they are covered in paste. Add enough cold water to just cover pumpkin. Add stock cube.<br \/>\nBring to the boil, add lime leaf then simmer until pumpkin is almost tender. Take out lime leaf.<br \/>\nPour in coconut milk.<br \/>\nAdd fish sauce and sugar. Continue to cook until pumpkin soft. Stir and taste to see if extra paste needed.<br \/>\nTake off heat, add ginger. Puree with hand blender or in jug blender, being careful of molten blopping puree.<br \/>\nStir through chopped coriander.<\/p>\n<p>Spicy, warm, orange deliciousness.<br \/>\n*I use Jap pumpkin as it tends to be sweeter in flavour. Choose deep coloured flesh. Nothing worse than an anaemic pumpkin! Actually there is\u2013anaemic chocolate crackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having coffee and talking with (listening to) fellow school Mums can be a broadening, enlightening, embarrassing, funny experience and somehow or other food and recipes are in the mix well and truly. Again, food is such a unifying thing! Today &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/?p=157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tasty-bits-and-little-morsels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}