Burnt Pumpkin soup with onion and garlic

Its winter and its Christmas time. Who told Pumpkins are only for Halloween. Why not cook and taste the flavor and lovely yellow hue for the year end. I happened to bump upon Sanjeev Kapoor's recipe for pumpkin soup and loved it. So now bookmarking the recipe into my blog.  

Ingredients:

           Serving : Serves three.

           Pumpkin - 300 gms
           Two medium sized onions unpeeled
           Six to Seven large garlic pods unpeeled
           Refined oil few spoons

            Salt and Pepper for taste post preparation

Way to go

  

• If you have a microwave oven, place your garlic pods with skin in it, and heat it in high power for 15 seconds. Now see if they have turned soft else repeat the heating for one or more times. Do not let them get burn, just they have to turn soft enough to squeeze with hand. Once done, remove the skin and keep the aside.
•  Now place the onions with skin the in the microwave and heat them in high power for 30 seconds. They should turn really soft enough to squeeze with hand. Else repeat the same procedure for two or more times. Do not over cook or burn them. Now remove the skin and keep the aside in their whole round size.
• Heat a kadai with a spoon of oil and stir fry and roast the garlic and onion for two minutes and keep aside.
• Now slice the pumpkins into rectangles like the size of your mobile phone batteries. I mean quarter inch in width, and some four to five centimeters in length and breadth.
•   Heat two spoons of refined oil in a kadai. And when hot, add the slices pumpkins to it and roast them to slight brown in medium heat. Keep tossing them, and they should get slightly roasted to brown giving a burnt flavor but not over browned. Need not worry about cooking them to soft at this point. 
• Now add the roasted garlic and onion to the pumpkin mixture, give it a toss, add two cups of water and cook in medium flame closed for three to four minutes. Check if the pumpkin has become soft now. Once soft. turn off the heat, and allow it to cool.
• Take the mixture in a blender and blend it to fine smooth paste. If the paste it too thick, you can add little bit of water to get the right consistency. If it too water, then you can boil to bring it to right thickness. 
• Now serve it hot with salt and pepper.