No Cream Creamy Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients

• finely chopped onions
  2 cups
• green onions

  sliced thinly, tops included
  2 unit
• finely chopped celery
  ½ cup
• green chili pepper

  chopped
  1 unit
• canola or vegetable oil
  ½ cup
• chicken broth (14½ oz cans) or 6 cups homemade chicken stock
  3 cans
• pumpkin purée or 1 can (16 oz) solid pack pumpkin
  2 cups
• bay leaf
  1 unit
• ground cumin
  1½ teaspoons
• undiluted

  evaporated skim milk
  1 cup
• salt and pepper to taste (canned chicken broth and canned pumpkin may contain added salt. Taste the finished soup before adding salt

  as additional salt may not be needed)
  1 unit
• Parmesan cheese
  1 unit
• fresh chopped parsley
  1 unit