This creamy and comforting pumpkin soup is perfect for fall! Made with sweet pumpkins, cashews and spices, this easy Instant pot pumpkin soup is Vegan, healthy and bound to become a family favorite!
This cold weather calls for something warm and comforting! And what better than this creamy vegan Instant pot pumpkin soup to help us warm up! A bowl of this warm soup, a huge fluffy blanket to snuggle up in and some cheesy movie in netflix, its my kinda perfect night 🙂 Oh yes, you have to finish it with some chocolate dipped stawberries. You get the picture don’t you? Healthy, guilt free indulgence on a cold night.
What I like about this delicious goodness is that you can easily convert this creamy pumpkin soup to a perfect sauce for your pasta. Add 1 cup broth less than mentioned in the recipe and blend it to a creamy sauce and add it to cooked pasta. And oh, add some more nutritional yeast and vegan cheese to it before you add it to the pasta. When you have littles ones who are not so fond of soups, this is a great hack. Mine certainly relished it!
I originally made this recipe as a vegan pasta sauce for my little one. As I was tasting the sauce, I thought this would work beautifully as a soup too. And I was right. This recipe is a keeper 🙂
Why should you be making this Instant pot Vegan Pumpkin soup?
This soup is
- Creamy
- Delicious
- Comforting
- Easy to make
- Kid friendly
- Can be used as pasta sauce
If you like this vegan Instant pot pumpkin soup, you will also like these pumpkin / squash recipes
Serve this creamy vegan instant pot pumpkin soup with some crispy kale or brussel sprouts. You could also cheese it up with some vegan cheese or add a dash of maple syrup for subtle sweetness! They all work well!
Warm and comforting pumpkin soup with garlic, thyme and cashews
- 4 heaping cups roughly chopped pumpkin
- 7 to 8 cloves garlic
- 1/3 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/2 onion roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup nutrritional yeast
- 15 to 20 cashews (can substitute with almonds too)
- 21/2 cups vegetable broth
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 to 3 sprigs thyme
- 1/2 tbsp olive oil / butter
- 1 tsp salt (or as needed)
- 1/2 small potato (optional)
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Add oil to your instant pot and switch on the saute mode (High)
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Add the garlic, onions (both roughly chopped) and saute for about a minute.
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Now add the pumpkin and saute for 7 to 8 minutes until you see some color on the pumpkins. (gives a nice flavor to the soup) It is ok if they stick to the bottom of the pan, because we will be adding broth in the next step. So try and get as much color as possible.
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Now add the broth, salt, cashews, potato, thyme sprigs. Scrape the bottoms of the pan if needed. Cook on manual high for 3 minutes. Release pressure naturally or after 5 minutes.
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Open up add the nutritional yeast, adjust salt as needed and blend everything using a hand blender or wait for it to cool down and blend it a blender until nice and creamy.
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Serve hot garnished with crispy kale / brussel sprouts
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Place the pumpkin, onions, potato and garlic in a baking tray and adda bit of salt. Now roast them in the oven at 400 F for 20 to 25 minutes. Alternatively, you could saute them in an iron skillet until they are nice and roasted. Saute them in high heat until you see some color on the pumpkins.
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When you see some color, add the cashews, bayleaf, chilli flakes, salt, broth and simmer for 7 to 8 minutes until the veggies are nice and tender.
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Now add the nutritional yeast and mix everything well. Blend everything well using a hand blender or a normal blender.
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Serve hot with crispy kale / brussles sprouts.
Can substitute vegetable broth with water. But Vegetable stock gives it a beautiful flavour.
Some other Instant pot soup recipes that you can try – Carrot turmeric and coriander soup, moong dal loats and veggie soup, Banana stem soup. All of these are perfect for this cold weather!
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Absolutely a perfect recipe to try for ongoing season dear…. What a lovely texture and colour of soup !! Awesome share 🙂
I love how instant pot makes our life easier…the pumpkin soup looks indeed creamy and delicious…must try for this winter
So true! Instant pot is such a great tool to have in the kitchen 🙂
Lovely texture and ideal for the season. I should try this sometime, a healthy one.
I love the colour and texture of the soup.It looks so delicious and creamy.
Thank you 🙂
Two in one and you have two meals figured out. The recipe looks handy and perfect for weeknight dinners. Gorgeous photos there Preethi. 🙂
thank you nisha! 🙂
Love any flavoured pumpkin soup and yes, now that chilly weather here to stay, I need lots of hearty and healthy soup recipes to make. Beautiful pictures.
Soups are perfect for this weather! 🙂
Absolutely a perfect recipe to try in this cold weather. Love the texture and colour of soup. Clicks are beautiful.
Thank you so much Geeta!
I usually make a curried pumpkin soup! I love this vegan version, clean, and simple yet flavorful! Lovely clicks 🙂
The curried version sounds good too!! I keep it simple most of the time as my little one likes it this way 🙂
I simply love pumpkin soup as one can add anything other ingredients to it to balance the sweet taste. I love to add salsa or sometimes chili powder sprinkled on it is enough. Love using it as sauce for pasta too.
Oh yes! salsa might give it some freshness and a bit if heat! Will try it next time 🙂
The delicious and creamy soup looks yummy. The bright colour looks so inviting. It’s such a comforting bowl. Give me this with soul sticks/garlic bread and I am good to go.
Soups and garlic bread are a match made in heaven 🙂
Yes I love my instapot, but hardly made soup in it. This is a sure try recipe with this cyclonic storm winds here.
I love pumpkin. And this soup looks so comforting rich creamy and delicious. Perfect for this cold weather. Awesome share.
Lovely creamy texture. Such soup with some breads makes a perfect meal. Lovely recipe. Beautiful captures..
Yes soup and bread is an awesome combination! Thank you! 🙂
A bowl of comforting hot soup is all I need for the chilly winters. This looks so appetizing!!
Thank you Swati 🙂
Delicious looking creamy soup! Love pumpkin and this soup looks so tempting! Love my instant pot; must try this soon 🙂
I love my instant pot too!! It is so useful for recipes such as this!
Love the texture of the soup and perfect for winter days
Isn’t it?? A hot bowl of this soup with some bread is so comforting! Thank u!
Comforting bowl of soup, whatelse we need to have during chilled evening dinners. Serve me this bowl with some grilled bread slices, i can have this soup silently without any fuss. Healthy soup.
Exactly! Soups are great for this weather and they are super healthy too!!