If you haven’t read the novel “Catching Fire” or you’re waiting for the movie beware there might be some insignificant spoilers in this recipe 😉 .
At the end of the “Hunger Games winner’s tour” there is a great party, held in the mansion of president Snow. The party buffet is enormous, there are tons of really tasteful dishes 😉 . We decided to procede chronologically and began with the first dish tasted by Katniss 🙂 . A creamy pumpkin brew sprinkled with black seeds and slivered almonds.
But the real star of the evening is the food. Tables laden with delicacies line the walls. Everything you can think of, and things you’ve never dreamed of, lie in wait.
“Ok, no more than a bite each dish.” I say. My resolve is almost immediately broken at first table, when I encounter a creamy pumpkin brew sprinkled with slivered nuts and tiny black seeds.
Text from the novel “Catching fire – Hunger Games”. No copyright infringement intended. All rights reserved to original owner.
We’ve only began with the dishes from the party, you’ll see other recipes inspired by the Hunger Games soon 🙂 .
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Katniss Everdeen's Pumpkin Brew
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 1 shallot
- 1 carrot
- 1 potato
- 800 g pumpkin pulp
- 1 l vegetable broth
- white pepper
- mace
- 200 ml cream
- 50 g slivered almonds
- 2 tablespoons black sesame seeds
- salt
Instructions
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Slice finely the onion, the shallot and the carrot and brown them in a pan.
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Chop the pumpkin and the potato and add them to the vegetables.
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Pour the vegetable broth and spice the soup with mace and white pepper.
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Let it boil for half an hour, then blend it finely with a hand blender.
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Add the liquid cream, let the soup boil again and salt to your taste.
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Turn off the fire and sprinkle with slivered almonds and sesame.
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