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Rinse the pigtails and boil them once to remove excess salt.
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Place the pigtails into a pressure cooker with split peas (dal) to create a flavorful broth.
3
Prepare vegetables by peeling and cubing carrots, pumpkin, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.
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Prepare corn by slicing into rounds, shaving kernels, and using some to make creamed corn.
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Make creamed corn by melting butter, sautéing onions, stirring in flour, then adding corn, garlic, thyme, milk, cream, sugar and salt. Cook until tender, then blend with a hand blender until creamy but not necessarily perfectly smooth.
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Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed pot, add onion, pumpkin, potato, sweet potato and carrot, and allow them to soften.
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Once the pressure cooker finishes, pour the pigtail and dal broth into the vegetable pot along with creamed corn, sliced corn, shaved kernels, green seasoning, dried spices and coconut milk.
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Bring the soup to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and allow everything to blend together.
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Make dumplings by mixing flour, salt, sugar and water to form a soft dough.
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Pinch and roll small pieces of dough and drop them into the simmering soup.
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Allow the dumplings to simmer in the soup until tender.
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Finish with fresh herbs (bandania, celery leaves and parsley), taste and adjust seasoning as needed.