Best Pumpkin Pork And Potato Chowder Recipes

PUMPKIN, PORK AND POTATO CHOWDER

Steps:

• In large skillet, brown sausage until cooked through.
• Drain fat.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in soup pot.
• Add onion and celery, saute over medium heat while sausage is cooking.
• Add browned sausage to soup pot.
• Mix with onion and celery and saute for about 2 minutes.
• Add garlic, saute for 1 minute or until fragrant.
• Add pumpkin, chicken broth, cumin, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Stir until smooth and well blended.
• Add potatoes.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer.
• Cover and simmer for about 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
• Warm evaporated milk.
• Add to soup and mix through.
• Serve hot with crusty bread.

PUMPKIN-PORK STEW

Steps:

• In 1-gallon resealable food-storage plastic bag, shake flour and 1/2 teaspoon each of the garlic-pepper blend and salt until mixed. Add pork to bag; shake to coat.
• In 5-quart Dutch oven or stockpot, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add coated pork; cook, stirring occasionally, until pork is white with golden brown edges. Discard any remaining flour mixture.
• Stir in pumpkin, broth, chiles in adobo, oregano, bay leaf and remaining 1/2 teaspoon each garlic-pepper blend and salt. Heat to boiling, scraping browned bits off bottom of Dutch oven. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 30 minutes, scraping bottom of Dutch oven occasionally to prevent sticking.
• Stir in squash and green beans. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 15 minutes. Stir in bell pepper. Cover; simmer 5 to 7 minutes longer or until bell pepper is crisp-tender. Remove and discard bay leaf before serving.

VERMONT CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook the diced salt pork over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, so that all of the pork pieces become brown but not too dry.
• Remove them from the pan with a slotted spoon.
• Saute the onion in the pork fat just until tender, but not brown.
• Add the water, corn, potatoes and salt, cooking, uncovered, until the potatoes are almost soft.
• Add the milk and simmer very gently for 10 to 15 minutes to let the flavor ripen.
• Taste for seasoning, adding a good bit of freshly ground pepper.
• Sprinkle the surface with the salt pork and serve with a large supply of soda crackers.

PUMPKIN PORK STEW

Steps:

• HEAT olive oil in large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion, garlic and basil; cook for 1 minute or until onion is tender. Add pork; cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until lightly browned. Add tomatoes with juice, pumpkin, broth, wine, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes.
• ADD potatoes, green beans and cinnamon stick. Cover; cook over low heat for 1 hour or until potatoes are tender. Remove cinnamon stick before serving.

HEARTY PUMPKIN CHOWDER (OR BUTTERNUT SQUASH)

Steps:

• Saute onion, celery, pumpkin, ginger and garlic in butter 5 minutes over medium heat.
• Stir in broth, potatoes, lima beans, corn and bell pepper.
• Boil then cover and simmer 15 minutes.
• Add ham.
• Whisk milk, flour, salt and nutmeg in a medium bowl.
• Stir milk mixture into pot and bring to boil.
• Stir a few minutes until thickened.