Squash Soup With Shrimp - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 kg pumpkin, deseeded, peeled and diced
2 None medium onions, peeled and diced
40 g butter or margarine
1 litre chicken stock
200 g whipping cream
None None Tabasco
None None grated nutmeg
200 g peeled prawns
1 clove garlic, peeled and diced

Preparation

Heat 2 1/2 tbsp butter in a saucepan. Saute onions and squash, until tender. Add stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 mins. Puree then mix in cream and season. Add Tabasco and nutmeg, to taste.
Heat remaining butter in a frying pan. Saute shrimp and garlic, until shrimp is opaque. Distribute soup between 4 soup bowls. Top with sauteed shrimp.