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Autumnal butternut pumpkin soup with spicy honey sprinkle

The Autumn is still present here in Germany and I decided to complete my plan to write a post about my butternut pumpkin soup. It was my first time I tried out this amazing sort of pumpkin which is so pretty and decorative, photogenic and healthy. Have you ever cooked a pumpkin? It was really heart to damage this beautiful pumpkin.

I hold one butternut pumpkin for my pictures because the natural color and the form is perfect as a prop in my food picture.

Do you use dairy products?

Pumpkins are wonderful to use in the kitchen. They have less calories! In that case I add some whipped cream for this soup to make it more creamy. LOL. I only use organic dairy products because I don’t want to support the animal abuse. I try to buy the highest organic label I can get. I don’t eat lots of dairy products. Normally I prefer plant milk or chia seeds as egg replacer. But sometimes I like to use them as well.

What is about you? Are you using dairy products? Or are you full vegan?

I watched a in German movie about harmful additives in food products. I’m really angry who the industry hoax us. We need to check carefully what’s inside the products we buy in our stores. Sometimes harmful additives are not shown really carefully. I bought my first vegetable broth without any additives in an organic store last days and can’t be more happy to found it.

In this case this soup is free from any harmful additives and industrial sugar. Please take care of the pepper in the soup because the sprinkle already contains a lot of crushed red pepper.

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Autumnal butternut soup with spicy honey sprinkle

Serve 4

Autumnal butternut soup

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Autumnal butternut pumpkin soup with spicy honey sprinkle
 
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Recipe type: soup
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • • 500 gramm butternut pumpkin (1 small)
  • • 750 gramm potatoes (starchy)
  • • 1 red onion
  • • 10 gramm fresh ginger
  • • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • • 1 liter vegetable broth
  • • 1 tsb cumin
  • • 1 tsb curry
  • • 100 mm whipped cream
  • • Salt & pepper
  • Spicy honey sprinkle
  • • 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds
  • • 0,5 tsb red pepper
  • • 0,5 tsp
  • • 1 tsp curry
  • • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • • 1 tsp honey (organic)
  • • Mortar
Instructions
  1. Pell and cut the butternut pumpkin in small cubes
  2. Pell and cut the potatoes as well in small cubes
  3. Chopp the onion and the ginger
  4. Heat olive oil in a pan and add onion and ginger
  5. Add cumin and curry and fry for 1 min
  6. Add potatoes and pumkin and fry for another few minutes
  7. Add vegetable broth
  8. Let simmer for 20 minutes
  9. Stir in whipped cream
  10. Season with salt and pepper
  11. For the spicy honey sprinkle
  12. Roghly chop the pumpkin seeds
  13. Mortal red pepper corns, curry and salt
  14. Heat olive oil in a pan and fry the pepper, salt and curry for 1 min
  15. Add pumpkin seeds and honey
  16. Enjoy

 

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Blog Carnival #healthyfastfood4

Let’s celebrate Blog Carnival! When you are a Blogger you know the feeling to work almost alone behind the camera. You enjoy your creativity while doing a photo session and have fun with editing your pictures on the computer. But sometimes it can be a really lonely process. That’s the main reason we are all active in social media. We want to share our love, our passion of food and tell others about our experiences, our stories. I think most of the people who read this agree on that point.

I want to create an event where we all participate together. To get connected and to share our same passion.
The passion of creating healthy food, taking food pictures and sharing recipes as well as tricks and tips for a healthy diet.

I invite you to join this #healthyfastfood4 Event (from 3rd September until 30th September) and benefit from our wonderful healthy food community.

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Because we ALL LOVE HEALTHY FAST FOOD I decided to use this topic. I really love to enjoy a cold beer together with roasted sweet potatoes with guacamole, quesadillas, sandwiches, tacos or vegetarian and vegan burger! You feel the same? Join now! By the way. I will publish the recipe for the Eggplant Gyros Pita in the picture next week.

By the way. I will publish my current FAVORITE blog post as from today in every single blog post at the end of each post to share the amazing work from my Blogger collegues. There are so many lovely souls out there you need to discover as well.

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What is a Blog Carnival?

A Blog Carnival is a „virtual party“ where blogger share their blog post with a special topic. The organizer (me) collects all posts and publish them on a fixed date on his blog with a feedback.

Who can participate?

Every blogger with an own blog can join this event. The organizer will proof the participants of authenticity and decide to approve or not. The blog post needs to fit to the topic and it need to have a suitable quality. If the participant isn’t approved by me I will inform you.

Share the Love

Feel free to publish the participant list as well on your blog and / or social media on the 1st October or later to share the healthy fast food love.

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Procedure

• Create and publish an own blog post with a healthy fast food recipe until the 30th September
• Include this Link http://nutsandblueberries.com/blog-carnival/ in your post to inform your readers about the Blog Carnival #healthyfastfood4
• The recipe needs to be free from meat and fish (vegetarian or vegan)
• The recipe is healthy and nearly free from any convenience ingredients
• Publish your blog post link in the comments under this post (I will add your link to the Blog Carnival)
• Optional: Write me an e-mail with your Link post@nutsandblueberries.com
• Promote the Blog Carnival #healthyfastfood4 on your social media in advance to join more participants and make the events more interesting for readers
• Use #healthyfastfood4 to tag your recipe on Instagram
• I will publish all participants on my blog and Instagram @nutsandblueberries on 1st October

Can’t wait to see you creations my friend! Happy healthy fast food cooking!

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Aromatic Tofu Bolognese

Every weekend I plan my week because it is very important for me to eat a healthy dish every lunch time. I hate eating spontaneously. I like to enjoy what I eat at lunch time. My lunch should give me lots of health benefit to get new energy for the other half of the day. I am really lucky because I can eat at home in my lunch time. But if I couldn’t do that I would prepare my lunch at take it with my every single day. Good planning is the base for a healthy diet. You don’t need to cook elaborate. It is only important to cook for 2 days so you have less stress at one day you don’t need to cook. I cook two times a week an during the weekend. I prepare healthy treats or soups and freeze them to have them on hand when I need them. Now it became a routine for me to have a good diet management. You can start in little steps by planning only a healthy breakfast and when you are safe with this you can start to plan lunch and so on. I will add a healthy living category soon with my tips for a healthy living.

I am really happy to share my favorite tofu Bolognese recipe with you!

I tried out different tofu Bolognese recipes and need a lot of time to find the perfect recipe for me and my hubby. Now it’s done. I don’t cook a lot with tofu but in this recipe I love love love it. This recipe is a vegan but we use parmesan for the topping. So it is on your side if you use cheese or not. For the red wine use vegan red wine if you like it vegan.

I use a lot of fresh herbs because fresh herbs because they are so good for my health. Herbs contains a lot of essential oils. That’s the reason why they are so delicious in the kitchen. Herbs also contains a lot of secondary plant products which are detoxifying for your body.

Tofu is a an excellent source of protein and contains all eight essential amino acids. You find also iron and calcium and the minerals manganese, selenium and phosphorous in tofu. Vegetarians like to eat tofu because of its high qualified protein. You find also protein in other animal products like milk or cheese. But when you don’t eat cheese that much or eat vegan tofu is a really good ingredient for your diet.

I use canned tomatoes in this recipe because canned organic (!) tomatoes are also really healthy for sure. Tomatoes are the best source of the carotenoid pigment lycopene. The cooking process with a little oil helps to carry the lycopene into the bloodstream.

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Aromatic Tofu Bolognese

Serve 4

800g canned tomatoes
1 eggplant
200g Tofu
2 tbsp olive oil
1 red onion
1 bay leaf
4 juniper berries
50ml red wine (take care of a vegan wine if you like to cook vegan)
1 tsp agave syrup
1 tsp broth
2 carrots
1/4 celery
5 tsb rosemary, oregano, thyme
10 leafs basil leafs (and more to serve)
salt & pepper

300g whole grain pasta

optional:
100g parmesan for topping

Preparation:

1. Finely chop the tofu and the eggplant (in cubes). I use my Vitamix but you can also use a fork for the tofu.
2. Fry the tofu and eggplants with the bay leaf and the juniper berries over high heat while stirring around the whole time.
The tofu may not look black only golden!
3. When the tofu is golden add chopped onion, carrots and celery and fry for another few minutes.
4. Deglaze with the wine.
5. Add the tomatoes, broth and herbs and let simmer other 5 minutes.
6. Meanwhile cook the pasta.
7. Season with salt, pepper and agave syrup.
8. Serve with fresh basil leafs and parmesan.

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