A very simple vegetable cream to make. You can put pumpkin, leeks, carrots, potatoes…, it is the typical cream with which you can have a hot first course in less than half an hour. If you accompany it with toasted or fried bread or bits of Serrano ham, it is also very tasty and everyone likes it very much.
All these creams, in addition to being healthy, are cheap and can be made with many types of vegetables, always taking advantage of those that are in season.
Ingredients to make Potato and Pumpkin Cream:
- 4 large potatoes
- 250 grams of pumpkin
- 1 leek (white part only)
- 2 medium carrots
- 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 pinch of freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 slice of bread or of the day
- 650 cubic centimeters of water
How to make Potato and Pumpkin Cream:
- Peel, clean and wash the vegetables to start preparing the potato and pumpkin cream.
- In a pot, put a tablespoon and a half of oil and fry the leek cut very small. Only use the white part of the leek. The green part of the leek is saved for a vegetable broth, for example.
- Add the rest of the small cut vegetables and give them a few turns so that they mix well with the oil and the leek.
- Trick: Cut the vegetables small so that they take less time to cook.
- Add the indicated water and boil in a covered pot over medium-low heat for approximately 30 minutes. Check if the potato is soft before removing from the heat.
- Trick: Add the salt once the vegetables are boiled.
- Remove part of the water to another container, which will have already become vegetable broth. Reserve in case it is necessary to liquefy the vegetables a little when you have crushed it, in this way you will put it to your liking.
- Trick: Do not crush the vegetables with all the amount of water, if it were too liquid, there would be no remedy.
- Crush the carrot, potato and pumpkin cream in a food processor, blender or food processor. Add salt and taste.
- Sliced bread or bread of the day is toasted or fried, long strips or small pieces are cut as cones. To everyone’s taste!
- The potato and pumpkin cream is served very hot and the bread is placed on top cut or in bars as I have served it. When it is already served, add a few drops of olive oil and a pinch of freshly ground black pepper. Come by my blog La Tara de Loza and discover all my recipes, you will love them!
