Pumpkin Ham Soup - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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1 pumpkin, about 16 lbs.
8 lrg. onions, yellow are good
1 garlic bulb or 1/2 depending on your taste
8 hot green or hot red peppers, must be the hot peppers
8 qts. of chicken stock
1/2 C. peanut oil
3 lbs. ham or ham hocks
4 - 5 bay leaves
salt & pepper to taste
pinch of nutmeg & pinch of cardamom (optional)
Preparation
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Clean the pumpkin; remove seeds.
Cut the pumpkin into small pieces.
Saute the onions and garlic in the peanut oil, add to the 8 quarts of chicken stock; add the pumpkin, hot diced peppers and ham.
When the pumpkin is tender, mash or puree.
Simmer slowly for 30 minutes more.
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