One of the foods I’ve been trying to work into my diet more is pumpkin, which is making a lot of the “super food” lists. SuperFoods Rx says that it’s a “real nutrition superstar.”

That’s all good, but I didn’t think that adding pie to my diet — or even a pumpkin custard — was such a good idea. So I wanted to come up with something on the savory side. And I wanted easy.

I did a Google search, and came up with a recipe close to what I wanted: pumpkin soup for lazy people. And then I made it for even lazier people :).

Note: be sure to use canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling. The latter has sugar added to it.

Easy pumpkin soup

1 medium onion, chopped
3 cups chicken broth
1 can pumpkin puree
1 tsp cumin
dash freshly grated nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste

Saute the chopped onion in a stock pot until soft (use medium heat; don’t brown).

Add one cup of the stock to the pot, and puree the onions with an immersion blender.

Add all other ingredients, heat until hot.

I put the soup into individual serving bowls and then nuked them for two minutes when I got home from work as a starter course for dinner. As Rachael Ray would say, yum-o!