Today’s #FoodFriday post deals with a popular autumnal dish in Germany: 🇩🇪Kürbissuppe (🇬🇧pumpkin soup).
Pumpkin soup is not especially German, since it it known in other European countries and in the USA too. But this soup is popular in Germany at least since the 18th century. There are different recipes how to make a pumpkin soup and which other flavours to add. Some take it simple, others go the extra mile and add cinnamon, lemon zist or egg yolk.
Interestingly, the pumpkin was considered as a very cheap vegetable that was even used to feed pigs in earlier times. Nevertheless, the pumpkin soup was enjoyed in stately and royal households too.
Nowadays, people like to add a bit chili, ginger, coriander leaves or curry powder into the soup and garnishit with a few drops of pumkin seed oil.
(I”m not a fan of pumpkin soup or any pumpkin dish in general. Sorry Kürbis 🤷♀️)
📷 by RitaE via Pixabay.
Ode to Germany 