There are countless recipes in which the Thermomix has come to our aid. Kitchen robots, faithful squires of our daily lives, have managed to save us effort and time so that preparations like this are a piece of cake.
In this case, we revert an autumn classic that you always want to have on hand when the days start to get chilly to release the orange queen of the orchards: the pumpkin, one of the vegetables that behaves best in hot creams.
We can also refrigerate it and consume it fresh, as it is still a game for any seasonbut surely it will be during the fall when we most resort to its orange and sweet tones to give a good account of it.
As you can imagine, the recipe has no science or mystery, so we can have our pumpkin cream solved in just half an hour and almost without realizing it, to which we could also give some spicy touches that would go well, such as curry, turmeric or ginger, to lift those lemony tones that suit you so well.
To start this recipe we can decide to what extent we want the Thermomix to help us, because we can even chop the onion and leek in it or we can chop them by hand.
If we choose to do everything with the Thermomix we just have to add the chopped onion and leek and chop them following the sequence 1, 4 and 9 a couple of times. When they are finely chopped, add the butter, the oil and cook them for 15 minutes at a temperature of 100 ºC and speed 1.
Then we change five minutes, Varoma temperature and speed 3. When this base is ready, add the diced pumpkin, cover with water —it could be vegetable broth if we wanted—, a pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper and We cook 15 minutes at a temperature of 100 ºC and speed 2.
Finally, grind for four minutes at maximum speed until the pumpkin cream is ready. Plate and season with chopped chives to taste.
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With what to accompany the pumpkin cream in Thermomix
Perfect as a first course for any time of the year, we can simply accompany this pumpkin cream with a green salad, because is already quite substantialso it can almost become our main dish.
We can also use it as a more usual first course, accompanying a second course with, for example, a grilled fish or a chicken breast, also grilled, which are perfect options for take care of yourself without giving up the taste.
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