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Graz Pumpkin Soup with Pumpkin Seed Oil 🎃

Name: Graz Pumpkin Soup with Pumpkin Seed Oil
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 2-4 servings
Cuisine: Austrian
Ingredients: 1 small Hokkaido pumpkin (about 800 g), washed, seeded, cut into wedges; 1 onion; quartered; 3 garlic cloves; unpeeled; 3 tbsp neutral oil + 2 tbsp Styrian pumpkin seed oil (dark roasted); 1 L chicken or vegetable stock, hot; 200 ml heavy cream or cooking cream; 1 tsp caraway seeds (optional, very Styrian); salt; coarse salt for the squash; white pepper; to serve: pumpkin seed oil, roasted pumpkin seeds, Kernöl topfen or sour cream

Soupy Styria, as the region's nickname admits: the green heart of Austria grows the nuts for its famous dark pumpkin seed oil, and the same soil gives the roast-squash soup that opens most country dinners here. Hokkaido wedges are caramelized in the oven with onion and garlic rather than boiled, then puréed with stock into a velvet the color of a harvest moon — and finished at the table with a thread of Styrian oil, whose nutty bitterness is the dish's whole personality. A spoon of it pooled on top, never stirred in, is the local etiquette.

Styria Austrian ⏱ 50 min Facile

Méthode

1

Heat oven to 200°C. Toss pumpkin wedges, onion and garlic with neutral oil and salt; roast 25–30 min until edges brown and a knife slides in easily.
2

Squeeze the soft garlic from its skins into a pot; add the roast squash and onion, pour in hot stock, simmer 5 min to marry the flavors.
3

Purée with an immersion blender until completely smooth, stir in cream, season with salt, white pepper and caraway if using; loosen with stock if thick.
4

Warm gently — do not boil hard once cream is in. Taste: it should be sweet-roasted, not vegetal.
5

Ladle into bowls; draw a spoon of dark pumpkin seed oil over each so it floats in rings, scatter roasted seeds and a dollop of cream or Styrian quark. Serve hot with bread.

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