Pumpkin and shrimp soup (Vellutata di zucca e gamberi)
Video Recipe
Instructions
Ingredients and doses
2 garlic cloves
1 shot Brandy
50 gr butter
Chives for garnish
Prawns and Shrimps 600 gr
1 tablespoon olive oil
Fresh cream 200 ml
Leeks 1
Salt.
1 glass white wine
700 gr pumpkin (pulp)
shrimp Comic
1 lt of water
1 carrot
1 stick of celery
1 onion
The shells and heads to 600 g prawns
Preparation
Clean the prawns by separating from the pulp and the shells of crustaceans. Prepare the shellfish.
Cut the squash into slices and then cut into cubes end finely chopped leek, melt the butter in a pan, Brown the butter, add the leek and when will enough Add pumpkin stew, Cook adding a little at a time the shellfish. In another pan, heat the oil with the garlic clove scalded shrimps with brandy and bathing them with white wine and deglaze.
When the pumpkin has softened, put it in a blender with a little more than half of the shrimp, cream and blend it all possibly lengthen it with a little comic strip until it reaches the consistency you want.
Place the pumpkin soup with prawns in the plates, garnish with the remaining prawns with a scattering of chopped chives and ground pepper.