Pumpkin Ham Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    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
    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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