Spiced Pumpkin Soup

1 hour | 4-6 people

Spiced Pumpkin Soup

15 July '26

By: Wellness Warehouse

A bowl of hot, comforting soup is like a ray of sunshine on a rainy day. When the weather is grey and gloomy, I find myself instinctively gravitating towards soup, because cloudy skies equal soup weather, after all. There’s no soup that is more of a crowd pleaser than pumpkin. It’s the combination of the pumpkin’s natural sweetness and the soup’s creamy texture that makes it so comforting. Roasting the pumpkin brings out the nuttiness and intensifies its flavour. I love adding some warming spices to it, just to make it extra special.

Extracted from Simply More Zola by Chef Zola Nene, published by Penguin Random House and available at leading bookstores and online

Ingredients

2 kg pumpkin, peeled and diced

2 TBSP olive oil

Salt and pepper, to taste

2 onions, peeled and chopped

1 TBSP fresh thyme leaves

2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped

1 thumb-sized piece fresh ginger, chopped

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp paprika

½ tsp ground cinnamon

¼ tsp ground nutmeg

2 TBSP butter

8 cups vegetable stock, plus more as needed

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180º C.

2. Place the diced pumpkin on a roasting tray, drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Roast the pumpkin for 25 – 30 minutes, or until tender and golden around the edges.

3. Heat the remaining tablespoon of olive oil in a pot. Add the onions, thyme, garlic and ginger, and sauté until the onions have softened. Add the cumin, paprika, cinnamon, nutmeg and butter, and allow the spices to toast for a few seconds. Then, add the roasted pumpkin to the pot along with the stock and simmer for 10 minutes.

4. Blend the mixture until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper. If the soup is too thick, add more stock to thin it out to your preferred consistency.

5. Serve piping hot in deep bowls finished with a drizzle of cream, if you like.

Extracted from Simply More Zola by Chef Zola Nene, published by Penguin Random House and available at leading bookstores and online

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