Cook with tea! Recipe for smoked tea-flavored pumpkin velouté.

Tea recipe "a taste of tea"

Pumpkin velouté with organic Lapsang Souchong smoked tea

for 4 people

Ingredients :

- 500g of pumpkin

- 2 carrots

- 2 potatoes

- 1 onion

- 1 tablespoon of organic Lapsang Souchong tea "a taste of tea"

- Thyme

- Laurel

- Timut pepper

- Salt

- 2 tablespoons of crème fraîche / or almond cream

- Some pistachios

Preparation of the recipe:

1- Chop the onion and brown it in a little oil.

2- Peel the pumpkin, carrots, potatoes and cut them into pieces as well as the zucchini.

3- In a pot, add all the vegetables, the onion, the bay leaf, and the thyme. Cover with water and cook for 40 minutes.

4- Infuse one tablespoon of smoked tea in 300ml (one cup) of water at 95°C for 5 minutes. Strain the tea and add the liqueur to your pot.

5- Check that the vegetables are cooked, remove the bay leaf and thyme. Blend your soup.

6- Add the cream, salt, and Timut pepper. Sprinkle with pistachio slivers once the soup is served.