Jamaican Pumpkin Beef Soup
This Jamaican Pumpkin Beef Soup is filled with dumplings, Jamaican Pumpkin & Beef. Perfect for a delicious and filling family dinner!
This Jamaican Pumpkin Beef Soup is filled with small, elongated dumplings called “spinners”, along with Pumpkin or Squash and Beef. Our family likes to put in additional veggies and beans as well but that is totally optional.
Jamaican Pumpkin Beef Soup
Ingredients for the Soup:
10 Cups Water
2 Cups Kidney Beans (Optional)
1-2 lbs Stewing Beef Cubes
1 Package of Grace Pumpkin Beef Soup Mix
1 whole Scotch bonnet pepper
2 Sprigs of Thyme
Salt & Pepper to taste
1-2 lbs Caribbean Pumpkin (or substitute with Butternut Squash), cubed
Other vegetables as desired. (Eddoe, Potatoes, Carrots, Sweet potatoes, Green Banana’s all work well in this soup.)
Ingredients for the Spinners:
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup water
Directions:
Place water and Beef in a large pot. If adding Kidney Beans to the soup this is the point you will want to put them in.
Bring to a boil then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until the beef is tender, about 45 minutes.
Meanwhile, prepare the spinners. In a medium-size bowl, sift together the flour and salt. Slowly add the water and mix until it reaches a firm consistency. Flour your hands and knead slightly.
To form the spinners, roll small pieces of dough between your palms into oblong shapes and drop into the soup stirring gently to prevent them from sticking to the pot.
Increase the heat to medium-high and add the Soup Mix, thyme, scotch bonnet pepper, a little salt and pepper as well as the pumpkin and other vegetables.
Continue to cook the soup for 20-30 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked through.
Jamaican Pumpkin Beef Soup
This soup from Jamaica is filled with small, elongated dumplings called "spinners", along with Pumpkin or Squash and Beef. Our family likes to put in additional veggies and beans as well but that is totally optional.
Ingredients
For the Soup
- 10 Cups Water
- 1 Cup Kidney Beans, Optional
- 1-2 lbs Stewing Beef Cubes
- 1 Package of Grace Pumpkin Beef Soup Mix
- 1 whole Scotch bonnet pepper
- 2 Sprigs of Thyme
- Salt & Pepper to taste
- 1-2 lbs Caribbean Pumpkin, or substitute with Butternut Squash, cubed
- Other vegetables as desired., Eddoe, Potatoes, Carrots, Sweet potatoes all work well in this soup.
For the Spinners
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- Place water and Beef in a large pot. If adding Kidney Beans to the soup this is the point you will want to put them in.
- Bring to a boil then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until the beef is tender, about 45 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the spinners. In a medium-size bowl, sift together the flour and salt. Slowly add the water and mix until it reaches a firm consistency. Flour your hands and knead slightly.
- To form the spinners, roll small pieces of dough between your palms into oblong shapes and drop into the soup stirring gently to prevent them from sticking to the pot.
- Increase the heat to medium-high and add the Soup Mix, thyme, scotch bonnet pepper, a little salt and pepper as well as the pumpkin and other vegetables.
- Continue to cook the soup for 20-30 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked through.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 388Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 353mgCarbohydrates: 59gFiber: 9gSugar: 9gProtein: 18g
This information is provided as a courtesy and for entertainment purposes only. This information comes from online calculators. Although frugalmomeh.com attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
Elizabeth Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys travelling, developing easy recipes, crafting, taking on diy projects, travelling and saving money!
It’s been so long since I’ve made this, I need to do so this weekend 🙂 I need to find some name yam first 🙂 The only difference with mine and yours is that I cube chayote and some of the pumpkin with carrots and cook with the meat. Yours look really good though 😀
We sometimes put Chayote in it too. Yum!
I love Jamaican food so I know I’d love this! Sending to mom.
That looks amazing!
Oh my this looks so good
I have this on my lust to make,i just know hubby will love this one
Sounds tasty. Just a few ingredients that I might not be able to find, though, the beef soup mix and the scotch bonnet pepper…
You can replace the scotch bonnet with another chile pepper, I’ve made the soup without the beef soup mix and its only a small difference in flavour. Lately I’ve been on a low sodium diet so I’ve swapped the soup mix out for no salt added beef broth and just made sure to cook the squash down until it basically incorporates into the broth making it a bit sweeter and a little thicker.
Hubby is on a low sodium diet,so i will try making this with the no salt added beef broth,thanks for the tip!
Try pure sea salt or Himalayan pink salt, much better for you than normal table salt, Himalayan pink salt has about 83 essential minerals that table salt lacks.
I’m not sure I’d like the pumpkin in this recipe but I like the other ingredients
I love the sound of this soup especially with the cooler fall weather moving in.This kind of delicious soup is so comforting!
This isn’t authentic Jamaican Pumpkin soup at all. Better to say it’s “Jamaican inspired”! So many ingredients have been omitted in this recipe and we certainly do not put kidney beans in Pumpkin soup. Kidney beans are used to make its own type of soup.
This is how my husbands family makes it and he is very much Jamaican. Thanks for the kind comment though 🙂