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Ingredients
for
4
Rice Soup in a Pumpkin
35 min.
Time:
551
calories
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Ingredientsfor
Preparation
1.
Cut a lid from the pumpkin and set aside. Hollow out pumpkin and cut about 500 g (approximately 17 ounces) pumpkin flesh into cubes. Blanch tomatoes in boiling water, peel, quarter and remove seeds.
2.
Melt butter in a saucepan and sauté diced pumpkin and tomatoes. Add broth to pumpkin mixture, bring to a boil, add brown rice pouch and simmer over low heat for about 15 minutes.
3.
Cut chicken into thin strips, add to broth mixture and simmer soup for about 5 more minutes. Remove rice pouch from soup, open pouch and stir rice into soup.
4.
Season soup with salt and pepper. Spoon soup into hollowed-out pumpkin, sprinkle with chervil leaves, replace pumpkin lid and serve.