Pumpkin Ham Soup

10 ingredients
5 steps

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)

Directions

  1. 1
    Clean the pumpkin; remove seeds.
  2. 2
    Cut the pumpkin into small pieces.
  3. 3
    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.
  4. 4
    When the pumpkin is tender, mash or puree.
  5. 5
    Simmer slowly for 30 minutes more.

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