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Pumpkin Soup with Prawns
Olesia Hryhorenko
Pastry chef, Prymorskyi Bistro, Odesa, UA
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Pumpkin Soup with Prawns

1 h 10 min total30 min hands-onServes 4Easy

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A roasted-pumpkin soup with garlic, thyme and cinnamon, seared tiger prawn, olive oil and caramelised pumpkin seeds.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Large pot, Ladle, Fine skimmer, Sharp knife
Allergens
Milk, Crustaceans
Method
18 steps · 14 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 12 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Stock

Film

Meat and bones simmered below a boil and skimmed until the surface stays clear.

A boiled stock goes cloudy and tastes of fat. The skim is tedious and it is what people taste.

  • Meat on the bone000 g
  • Onion000 g
Steps
4
Time
1.5 h
Hands-on
15 min

Makes 2 litres · keeps 4 days refrigerated

Up to 4 days ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Sauteed base

Onion, carrot and the rest sweated in fat until soft before they meet the stock.

Vegetables boiled from raw taste boiled. Sweated first they bring their own sweetness.

  • Onion000 g
  • Carrot000 g
Steps
3
Time
15 min
Hands-on
15 min

Makes For one pot

Up to 1 day ahead

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Pumpkin000 g
  • Onion000 g
  • Garlic000 g
  • Thyme000 g
  • Cinnamon000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 12 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING5:00

Which cut to buy for the stock, and asking for bones

TECHNIQUE4:00

Skimming a stock, and how clear is clear

KIT3:00

Pot size and the simmer that never boils

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 18 STEPS

14 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 14 of the 18 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: judging the simmer so the stock stays clear — step 11 of 18.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 12 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Olesia Hryhorenko watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Salting only at the end

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Resting the pot an hour before serving

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Serving it the next day

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The order the vegetables go in, and the sour-sweet balance checked at the end, not the start.

Written by Olesia Hryhorenko. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

4 verified cooks · 94% said it worked

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