Pumpkin Bacon Soup Recipes

PUMPKIN & BACON SOUP

Steps:

• In a large, heavy-bottomed pan, heat the oil with 25g butter. Add the onion and a pinch of salt and cook on a low heat for 10 mins or until soft. Add 60g bacon and cook for a further 5 mins until the bacon releases its fat. Then increase the heat to medium, add the pumpkin and stock and season. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer, cover with a lid and cook for about 40 mins until the pumpkin is soft. Pour in the cream, bring to the boil again and remove from the heat. Set aside some of the liquid, then blend the remaining pumpkin until smooth and velvety, adding liquid back into the pan bit by bit as you go (add more liquid if you like it thinner). Strain through a fine sieve, check the seasoning and set aside.
• Melt the remaining butter in a pan over a high heat and fry the rest of the bacon with black pepper for 5 mins. Divide the bacon between four bowls, reheat the soup and pour over. To serve, sprinkle over the pumpkin seeds and drizzle with maple syrup.

GRANNYDRAGON'S PUMPKIN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Combine pumpkin, onion, carrot and celery in large soup pot with oil.
• Stir and fry 5 minutes.
• Stir in curry powder and cook 1 minute more.
• Add flour and stir.
• Remove pot from heat and stir in stock.
• Puree with a wand blender or food processor at this point. Return to the soup pot if using the food processor.
• Fry chopped bacon 3 to 4 minutes in separate pan, stirring constantly, until crisp. Remove bacon with slotted spoon to the soup pot. Save bacon fat of another use.
• Taste soup to adjust seasoning.
• Bring to the boil, reduce heat to simmer.
• Simmer 5 minutes, stirring.
• Serve soup in bowls. May garnish with roasted pumpkin sees and freshly grated nutmeg.

PUMPKIN BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Mix all of the ingredients together (not garnish and reserving a little of the bacon for garnish) and heat over medium.
• Ladle into soup bowls and top each cup with 1 tsp of sliced green onion and the remainder of the bacon to serve.

JOE'S INCREDIBLE BACON PUMPKIN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Bring a small pot of salted water to a boil; add the pumpkin and cook until soft enough to easily pierce with a fork, about 10 minutes. Drain.
• Mash the cooked pumpkin with a potato masher in your favorite large bowl. Mix the cream cheese and brown sugar with the mashed pumpkin. Whisk in the eggs one at a time. Add the vanilla, half-and-half, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves; stir until you have a thin batter. The batter should be slightly thinner than pancake batter. Pour the batter into the pie crusts.
• Place bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until evenly brown. Trim soft, fatty bits from strips. Press 7 pieces of bacon into the batter of each pie with a fork.
• Bake the pies in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Decrease the heat to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Top each pie with 2 pieces of cooked bacon and bake another 30 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow pies to cool completely before serving.