/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19002356]

How do I make my pumpkin soup look more orange? It always ends up an unappealing khaki color (despite being delicious.) Annato is something I saw online, but I'm afraid it would just make it yellow.

[Anonymous No.19002360]

Maybe a little bit of turmeric or fecal matter

[Anonymous No.19002364]

>>19002356
your proportion of pumpkin is probably just not high enough.

what else is in the soup? turmeric, and carrots would help.

[Anonymous No.19002365]

>>19002356
Saffron

[Anonymous No.19002394]

>>19002356
throw some turmeric in that shit nigga

[Anonymous No.19002403]

>>19002356
Use what the pros use, orange food coloring, and don't forget a pound of MSG.

[Anonymous No.19002407]

What sort of pumpkin are you using, what sort of soup is it (chunky, a bisque etc) and what are the other ingredients? If it's a bisque, onion will alway change the colour of the puree. My tomato bisque, for example, turns orange once blitzed smooth. I fix that somewhat by replacing some of the water with tomato juice. You might be able to do the same with carrot juice for a pumpkin soup, though it will sweeten the results considerably.

[Anonymous No.19002424]

>>19002356
OP answer the fucking questions. You made this fucking thread asking for help and you aren't addressing anybody. Waste of fucking space on the catalogue. If this is how you make all your threads I hope you never make a goddamn thread on 4chan ever again.

[Anonymous No.19002433]

>>19002424
That's what these faggots do. Start a thread then abandon it if they don't get any replies in 10 minutes.

[Anonymous No.19002442]

>>19002407
Sorry, it's a bisque , my boyfriend won't eat finely pureed ones

[Anonymous No.19002443]

>>19002360
>>19002394
turmeric makes sense

>>19002364
onion and apple, mostly. I also use milk instead of broth.

>>19002365
too expensive

>>19002403
based

>>19002407
whatever punkins I can get, including jack o lantern punkins, and I do think the onion has been changing the color. I'll look into the carrot juice. It is blended, to be clear.

>>19002424
>>19002433
bro chill it's a slow board and I was doing laundry nigga chill out it's punkin soup not a terrorist attack nigga

[Anonymous No.19002477]

>>19002356
Don't get so hung up on making the perfect orange for Instagram, natural pumpkin has a lot of color variation. You could even add Avocado for some contrast in color, flavor, and smell. Try pic related, OP.

[Anonymous No.19002509]

>>19002477
I'm mostly interesting in a more appealing color to get my dumb millenial mom and dumb boomer grandparents to actually try my cooking for once.

[Anonymous No.19002529]

>>19002356
use lemon juice or orange juice.

[Anonymous No.19002586]

>>19002529
At the end or during cooking?

[Anonymous No.19002636]

>>19002443
>jack o lantern
In my experience, those are horridly bland and have a generally more pallid colour than other varieties. Try using very ripe Spanish pumpkin. While the skin is usually a dusty shade of orange or khaki, Spanish pumpkin's flesh varies from yellow to deeply orange, almost red in colour. A redder one might help the look of your soup.

My recipe is simple: leek, butter, pumpkin, stock, rice. Boil. Blitz smooth. Sieve it to remove any bits that won't blitz. Serve with sauteed mixed mushrooms and fresh sweet parsley in it and a dish of butter with crusty bread.
What's yours?

[Anonymous No.19002653]

>>19002356
How do I make food yellow?
Tumeric
How do I make it black?
Dark soy sauce
How do I make it red?
Beets
How do I make it green?
Spinach

[Anonymous No.19002673]

How do I fuck up a dish?
Do >>19002653

[Anonymous No.19002689]

>>19002356
Use butternut squash, you can still technically call it pumpkin soup. Also my favorite secret for pumpkin bisque is a healthy amount of Tomato Paste sautéed with the onions in butter in the beginning. The acidity does wonders to balance the sweetness, and it bumps up the savory component to make it utterly addictive. It would help your color as well. For a 6-8 cup batch use about half of a 6oz can.
The other thing is that you really should only make pumpkin soup when they're in season in late summer into autumn. Other times of year they tend to be very pale in color and bland. When you get a good October sugar pumpkin they're so deep orange they're almost red.

[Anonymous No.19003128]

>>19002443
>onion and apple
apple wtf?

ALL YOU NEED FOR PUMPKIN SOUP IS
pumpkin
onion
potato
salt or stock
cream (not milk)

[Anonymous No.19003548]

>>19003128
>potato
No. Rice.