Jamaican Pumpkin-Coconut Soup

Description

Very spicy and hot soup.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 onion
• 1 jalapeno pepper
• 1½ lbs pumpkin
• 1 potato
• chopped fresh ginger
• 1 piece lemongrass
• 2½ cups vegetable stock
• 1⅔ cups coconut milk
• 1 tablespoon green curry
• salt
• pepper

Directions

1. Peel and chop onion.
2. Remove the seeds of jalapeno pepper and cut into slices.
3. Peel and chop pumpkin.
4. Stew Onion, jalapeno pepper and pumpkin in olive oil.
5. Add Potato, ginger and lemongrass.
6. Add vegetable stock, boil up the soup and let it simmer until pumpkin is done.
7. Remove lemongrass and mash the soup to puree.
8. Reheat (but not broil) the soup with coconut milk and green curry, taste soup with salt and pepper.