{"id":2637,"date":"2021-11-02T07:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2021-11-10T03:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T11:02:54","slug":"pumpkin-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/pumpkin-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Easiest Fall-inspired Pumpkin &#038; Sage Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-599\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1933\" src=\"http:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/\/01\/jessica-mosiuk1-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Mosiuk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cozy up with this warming and nutritious soup recipe! An easy weekday meal, this recipe whips up in only 30 minutes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Health benefit highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Immune-boosting, due to the high beta-carotene content of pumpkin (which also gives pumpkin its orange colour!)Heart healthy, thanks to the fibre content which can help lower cholesterol levels.<\/p>\n<p> Weight-loss friendly, with only 8 grams of complex carbohydrates per cup of pumpkin!<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 small sugar pumpkin, peeled and cut into 1 inch cubes 1\/4 cup leek, roughly chopped <\/li>\n<li>2 cloves garlic, peeled and left whole 10-20 sage leaves avocado oil, for roasting <\/li>\n<li>4 \u2013 6 cups vegetable stock, depending on desired thickness 1 pinch of cinnamon  <\/li>\n<li>2 pinches of nutmeg salt and pepper to tasteInstructions1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. <\/li>\n<li>2. Toss squash, leek, garlic and sage in a bowl with avocado oil, salt and pepper. Spread over a baking sheet and roast for 20 minutes. <\/li>\n<li>3. Put roasted squash, leek and sage into a large saucepan. Add vegetable stock and heat through. <\/li>\n<li>4. Blend with an immersion blender until mostly smooth. <\/li>\n<li>5. Add more salt and pepper if needed. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Samantha Sama, ND<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cozy up with this warming and nutritious soup recipe! An easy weekday meal, this recipe whips up in only 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,9,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diet","category-food","category-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliahealthcare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}