Apple Butternut Squash Soup Food

APPLE-BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion; cook, stirring occasionally, until it begins to soften, about 4 minutes. Add squash, and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 10 minutes.
• Add apples, salt, cumin, coriander, ginger, cayenne, black pepper, stock, and the water (just enough to cover). Bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, and cook until vegetables are very soft, about 30 minutes.
• Puree in batches in a food processor or blender until smooth, and return to saucepan. Heat over low, thinning with more water if necessary. To serve, ladle into shallow bowls; garnish with diced apples, jalapeno slices, and sour cream if desired.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Cut butternut squash in half, peel and seed.
• Peel, core and coarsely chop the apples.
• Peel the onion and coarsely chop.
• Combine all these ingredients with the rosemary, marjoram, chicken broth, water, bread, salt and pepper in a heavy saucepan.
• Bring to a boil and simmer for 45 minutes.
• Puree the soup in a blender until smooth.
• (Do in several batches, not filling the blender more than a quarter full each time).
• Return the soup to the saucepan and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat.
• Just before serving, add the heavy cream.
• Serve hot with a sprinkle of fresh chopped parsley on top.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Warm the butter, olive oil, onions, and curry powder in a large stockpot uncovered over low heat for 15 to 20 minutes, until the onions are tender. Stir occasionally, scraping the bottom of the pot.
• Peel the squash, cut in half, and remove the seeds. Cut the squash into chunks. Peel, quarter, and core the apples. Cut into chunks.
• Add the squash, apples, salt, pepper, and 2 cups of water to the pot. Bring to a boil, cover, and cook over low heat for 30 to 40 minutes, until the squash and apples are very soft. Process the soup through a food mill fitted with a large blade, or puree it coarsely in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade.
• Pour the soup back into the pot. Add the apple cider or juice and enough water to make the soup the consistency you like; it should be slightly sweet and quite thick. Check the salt and pepper and serve hot.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large, heavy-bottomed soup pot set over medium heat, melt the margarine. Add the onions and garlic and sauté until softened for about 7 minutes.
• Sprinkle the five spice powder over the onions, stir and cook 1 minute more. Tip: Five Spice Powder is used extensively in Chinese cooking and is available in Asian markets and most grocery stores.
• Add in the squash, apple, broth and juice. Increase the heat to high and bring the mixture to a boil.
• Reduce the heat and simmer, covered for 30 minutes. Stir in the brown sugar.
• Purée the soup, in batches, in a blender until smooth. Return soup to the pot and heat through before serving.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium-high heat. Saute butternut squash, leeks, carrots, and celery in hot butter until vegetables are softened, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Stir apples, thyme, and sage into the squash mixture; pour in chicken stock and cider. Bring mixture to a simmer, reduce heat to low, cover pot with a lid, and cook until vegetables and apples are tender, about 30 minutes. Remove soup from heat and cool slightly, about 10 minutes.
• Pour soup into a blender no more than half full. Cover and hold lid down; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend. Puree in batches until smooth. Return mixture to pot and season with salt to taste. Garnish individual servings with crumbled bacon.

APPLE AND BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, and cook until it begins to soften, about 4 minutes. Add squash, and cook, stirring occasionally, until it softens, about 10 minutes. Add apples, salt, cumin, coriander, ginger, cayenne, pepper, stock, and 2 1/2 cups water (just enough to cover). Bring to a boil.
• Reduce to a simmer, and cook until vegetables are very soft, about 30 minutes.
• Puree in batches in the bowl of a food processor or the jar of a blender until smooth, and return to saucepan over low heat. Thin with additional water if necessary. Serve hot, garnished with chopped apples, jalapeno, and sour cream, if desired.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in large pot over medium-high heat. Add onion and nutmeg; sauté until onion begins to brown, about 5 minutes. Add squash, 4 1/4 cups broth, apple, and apple juice. Bring to boil; reduce heat and simmer uncovered until squash and apple are tender, about 30 minutes. Working in batches, puree soup in blender until smooth. Return soup to pot. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Bring soup to simmer, thinning with more broth if desired. Ladle soup into bowls. Garnish with sour cream and chives.

APPLE AND BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the peanut oil in a large stockpot over medium-low heat. Add the squash, apples and onion, stir to coat with oil and saute uncovered, stirring occasionally, for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the onion is transparent.
• Stir in the mace, curry and cardamom and continue cooking until the onion begins to brown.
• Add the cider. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat and cook for three minutes. Add the stock, lower the heat to medium-low and simmer the mixture, partially covered, for another 35 minutes, or until the squash is tender.
• Transfer the mixture to a food-processor bowl and process until the soup is smooth, then return the soup to the stockpot. Reduce the soup, uncovered, over medium-low heat, to about one-fourth. Stir occasionally.
• Stir in the half-and-half, salt and pepper and bring to a simmer. Pour into warmed bowls and sprinkle the scallions over the top.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND ROASTED APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut each squash quarter in half and place in a large bowl. Quarter and core apples, and add to bowl. Add 1 or 2 tablespoons oil and a sprinkling of salt and pepper. Rub everything to coat well, and transfer to a large baking sheet. Cover tightly with foil.
• Bake until apples are soft in center, about 30 minutes. Transfer apples to a plate to cool, and return squash to oven to bake until soft, another 15 to 30 minutes. When apples and squash are cool enough to handle, scoop out flesh into a large bowl; discard skins. Working in batches, purée squash and apples in a food processor or blender. If necessary, add some apple cider to each batch to help purée.
• Transfer purée to a 4- to 6-quart soup pot. Add remaining cider and enough chicken broth or water for desired consistency. Place over medium-low heat. Add cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon juice; as soup warms, flavors will emerge. Heat just until steaming, and adjust seasonings to taste. Ladle into warm bowls. If desired, garnish with dried cranberries or dried cherries, toasted almond slivers and diced apple.

ROASTED BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Combine squash, onion, apple and canola oil in a bowl; toss to coat.
• Arrange vegetables in a single layer on a baking sheet.
• Bake at 400F for 30 minutes.
• Remove roasted vegetables to a blender or food processor and add ginger, garlic and about 1 1/2 cups of the stock; purée, adding more stock if necessary.
• Use a little of remaining stock to deglaze the baking sheet; pour into a large soup pot over medium heat.
• Combine 2 tablespoons of stock with cornstarch in a bowl and whisk until smooth.
• Toast curry powder in a dry skillet until it begins to give off a nutty fragrance.
• Add cornstarch mixture, curry powder, remaining stock, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper to soup pot.
• Cook until slightly thickened, stirring frequently.
• Reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 20 minutes.
• Add milk and cream cheese; heat through until the cheese melts.
• Correct seasonings.
• Serve hot, garnished with minced chives, if desired.

APPLE BUTTERNUT SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan coated with cooking spray, cook and stir onion in butter over medium heat until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Add the squash, broth, apple, water, thyme and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes or until squash is tender. Cool slightly. , In a blender, process soup in batches until smooth. Return all to the pan; stir in cream and heat through (do not boil).

NANCY'S BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Pour enough water into a baking dish to be about 3/4-inch deep. Lie squash halves into the water with the cut side facing up.
• Roast in preheated oven until a fork easily pierces through the flesh, 45 to 50 minutes; Remove from oven and flip squash; let cool enough to handle.
• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Saute shallots in hot butter until softened, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Pour 3 to 5 cups chicken stock into the pot; stir. Add apples to the stock; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until the apples are tender, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Use a fork to scrape the flesh from the butternut squash, finishing with a spoon to get the last bits away from the skin; add to the simmering stock. Add remaining 3 cups stock to the pot, bring mixture to a simmer, and continue to cook until everything is heated through, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Puree soup with an immersion blender until smooth.