Spicy Peanut Pumpkin Soup #Halloween recipe from Molly MacRae

Only as spicy as you want it to be, with a lovely zing of lime, this soup is good on every level. Next time I’ll double the recipe so we have leftovers for lunch.

 

Spicy Peanut Pumpkin Soup

Adapted from Yewande Komolafe in The New York Times

Serves 4

 

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil

4 garlic cloves, smashed1 (1-inch) piece ginger, peeled and chopped

1/2 habanero (or other hot pepper of your choice, or hot sauce to taste)

1 (14-ounce) can pumpkin puree

3 cups vegetable stock

1 (13-ounce) can coconut milk

1/4 cup unsweetened natural peanut butter

1/3 cup peanuts, toasted

1/3 cup pumpkin seeds, toasted

1 teaspoon cumin

1 teaspoon smoked paprika        

1 teaspoon coriander

Salt to taste

Lime juice to taste

 

Directions

In a stock pot, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion, garlic, and ginger. Cook, stirring often, until softened and just beginning to brown around the edges, about 10 minutes.

Stir in the habanero (or other pepper or hot sauce) and pumpkin. Whisk in the stock. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. If you don’t care for much spice, remove the habanero after the soup simmers.

While the soup simmers, toast the pumpkin seeds and peanuts in a small skillet.

After the soup has simmered, add coconut milk and peanut butter to the pot. Using an immersion blender, or working in batches in a blender, puree soup until smooth. Taste and add salt if needed. Keep soup warm until ready to serve.

Serve with toasted pumpkins seeds, peanuts, and a squirt or drizzle of lime juice.

 

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Take time to curl up with a trio of cozies – a drink, a treat, and a good book. May I suggest a bit of armchair travel, too?  Visit Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, in the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries.

 

Or travel to the Scottish Highlands in the Highland Bookshop Mysteries.

Spend time in northeast Tennessee in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries, two stand-alone mysteries, and a collection of short stories.

Or travel from Cape Cod on the east coast to Monterey on the west coast, with a stop in Ohio along the way in my very gentle mysteries written as Margaret Welch. 

 Happy reading!

 

The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Instagram or Bluesky.