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Ellie Kreger's Curried Butternut Soup.

this is my basic recipe for squash squash, the variations are endless and you can modify it to suit your taste. First roast up a butternut squash (face down in a baking pan) along with an onion, several cloves of garlic, maybe an apple, with some salt pepper and a little butter until everything is nice and tender. let it all cool a bit and then toss it all in the food processor (making sure to scrape in all the nice caramelly bits in the pan) and give it a whirl, adding a little water/stock (or even cream) until the texture is to your liking. after that you can season with your choice of spices (curry, pie spices, cayanne pepper), you can add beans if you'd like to make good squash chili or some corn and chopped veggies for a southwestern vegetable stew the choice is yours. hope this helps

My best soup combines three recipes. Core the squash, saving the seeds and membrane. Roast the squash halves drizzled with olive oil, salt and pepper. When they are cool enough, scoop out the flesh.

Meanwhile, sauté the seeds, membrane, fresh sage and onion in butter and olive oil until the onion is softened. Add chicken broth and/or water and simmer. Season with salt and pepper. Strain the broth and add the squash flesh. Puree. Adjust seasoning. Strain the soup through fine mesh. I don’t add cream to my soup, but add some here if you’d like.

Heat a little olive oil in a small fry pan. Chiffonade fresh sage and fry until crisp. Drain on paper towels. Garnish individual servings with fried sage and roasted chopped pecans. You can also use hazelnuts. Chestnuts may be good too.

I've had dreams of skipping the fried sage and chopped nuts and adding either a teaspoon of reduced balsamic vinegar or cognac to the individual servings, but I haven't tried it yet. I think that may be a better option if you choose to add cream to the soup. Maybe I'll try it this weekend.

Enjoy!

Our batch this weekend turned out FABULOUS! This is what we did:

2 carrots, diced
1 celery stalk, diced
1 red potato, peeled and diced
1 apple, peeled and diced
1 whole onion, cut in chunks
5 cloves of garlic, whole
I butternut squash [ de-seeded and diced in cubes],

Sautée the above ingredients until soft, then add:
1 cup Full Cream,
1 cup Sour Cream,
2 Tetras of Organic Chicken Broth,

Allow ingredients to simmer together, then season with S & P, yellow curry, bit of honey and some thyme.

Diced green scallions and dollop of sour cream for garnish. I swear this is a good recipe :-D GOOD LUCK!