Friday, August 17, 2012

Making Spiced Butternut Squash Soup

By Sophia Surk


Here's your childhood soup recipe we all knew as a kid. With only a perfume of this warm delicious soup, you are like brought back towards your childhood days during the winter. This tasty butternut squash soup is definitely an extraordinarily delightful soup best for your winter days; it's distinctively boosted up with many of the tastiest seasonings you can think about. Follow this simple recipe and it'll surely be a hit to absolutely everyone!

Ingredients:

three pounds of butternut squash, halved and pitted, 1 medium chopped onion, 2 huge russet potatoes, peeled and sliced into quarters, two cloves garlic, sliced, 2 cans of chicken broth (49.5 oz), 1 leek, sliced, 1 cup half and half, 1/2 cup of sour cream (optional), 1/2 cup sherry wine, 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice, 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper, Salt and pepper,

Steps:

Pre-heat the oven to 375 Fahrenheit. Grab your baking dish and pour some water within it.

Put the butternut squash in halves by having the sliced up side face down on the baking dish. Bake squash for roughly 40 minutes or more, right until it's tender and you can easily stab its flesh with a fork. Take out from oven and then allow it to cool for roughly ten minutes, after that peel off squash. Set aside.

In a big heavy saucepan place over medium heat, melt in the butter, then saut your garlic, onion, and leek for around 2-4 minutes or until finally spices change its color a bit. Stir in your chicken broth and then add your potatoes, cook for about 20 minutes or till potatoes become supple and tender. Add the baked butternut squash, properly mash it along with the potatoes till both are simply chunks.

Put the soup to the blender and mix for approximately five minutes until eventually all of the ingredients are pureed up. Transport back in the pot.

Set cooking pot into medium, and then heat up over again and then sprinkle with nutmeg, ginger, allspice, and cayenne pepper. Also put some salt and pepper after which dispense in sherry wine as well as half and half cream.

Blend consistently. Simmer but don't boil.

Scoop into several containers and top with your sour cream.

Serve warm and enjoy!




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