Butternut Squash And Roasted Garlic Bisque Food

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND ROASTED-GARLIC BISQUE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Rub cut surfaces of garlic with oil.
• Put halves back together to reassemble heads.
• Wrap each tightly in foil; bake until tender, about 40 minutes.
• Cool garlic in foil.
• Melt butter in heavy large pot over medium heat.
• Add onions, carrots and celery; sauté until onions are beginning to soften, about 5 minutes.
• Add squash, broth and 2 tablespoons sage.
• Bring to boil.
• Reduce heat; simmer uncovered until squash is tender, about 25 minutes.
• Meanwhile, unwrap garlic.
• Squeeze from skin into small bowl.
• Discard skin.
• Mash garlic with fork until smooth.
• Stir garlic into soup.
• Working in batches, purée soup in blender until smooth.
• Return to pot.
• (Can be made 1 day ahead. Refrigerate uncovered until cold. Cover and keep refrigerated. Bring to simmer before continuing.)
• Stir in 1/2 cup cream.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Transfer soup to tureen.
• Drizzle with remaining 1 tablespoon cream.
• Sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon sage.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND ROASTED-GARLIC BISQUE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Rub cut surfaces of garlic with oil. Put halves back together to reassemble heads. Wrap each tightly in foil; bake until tender, about 40 minutes. Cool garlic in foil.
• Melt butter in heavy large pot over medium heat. Add onions, carrots and celery; sauté until onions are beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add squash, broth and 2 tablespoons sage. Bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer uncovered until squash is tender, about 25 minutes.
• Meanwhile, unwrap garlic. Squeeze from skin into small bowl. Discard skin. Mash garlic with fork until smooth.
• Stir garlic into soup. Working in batches, purée soup in blender until smooth. Return to pot. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Refrigerate uncovered until cold. Cover and keep refrigerated. Bring to simmer before continuing.) Stir in 1/2 cup cream. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer soup to tureen. Drizzle with remaining 1 tablespoon cream.
• Sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon sage.

ROASTED BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND CHICKEN BISQUE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Cut each squash in half length wise and remove seeds. Place squash flesh side down on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 45-60 minutes or until skin side is brown and bubbly and flesh side is golden brown.
• While squash is roasting, peel and cube onion, chop celery, peel and halve garlic cloves, and peel and chop carrots. (It doesn't really matter how big you make everything, because it gets blended later. The only thing to keep in mind is the bigger the pieces, the longer it takes to get cook.).
• Melt the butter in a large stock pot. Add the onion, celery, and garlic. Cook until everything is beginning to get soft and has a little color. Add stock and bring to a boil. Add carrots. Reduce heat and simmer until carrots begin to soften.
• At this point, you have 2 options. The chicken can be blended along with everything else (sounds a little weird, but I promise it is delicious), or you can add the chicken after blending. If you are going to blend the chicken: Cube it (again size isn't a huge issue for this option) and add it to the simmering pot. Simmer until the chicken is cooked through and the carrots are soft.
• Take squash out of oven and let cool until you can handle it. Using a spoon, scoop the cooked flesh out of the skin. Add it to the simmering pot. Simmer until the squash has broken down. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
• In small batches, blend soup until smooth. (Because you are blending something hot, you will want to take the center out of the lid of your blender to vent it. Cover the hole by holding a folded up kitchen towel over it.) Once you've got all of it blended, put the blended soup back in the pot.
• If you didn't blend the chicken, this is where you would cube it small and add it in, simmering until it's cooked through.
• Add salt and pepper to taste. At this point, I add brown sugar, but you don't have to. Also, you can add whipping cream, but I find it's creamy enough without it and I don't miss it.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH, ROASTED GARLIC & SAGE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large soup pot, sauté the onion in half of the butter until caramelized, about 20 minutes.
• Add squash, roasted garlic cloves, sage & chicken stock.
• Simmer until squash is tender.
• Puree with an immersion blender or in a food processor.
• Add cream and season with salt & pepper.
• Garnish with additional sage leaves fried in 2 tablespoons of butter.
• Enjoy!

BUTTERNUT SQUASH BISQUE

Steps:

• If using fresh squash, peel, seed and cut in large chunks. If using frozen squash puree, let thaw. In a large saucepan, boil onion and fresh squash in lightly salted water, until just tender, or just boil onions till tender if using frozen squash puree. Drain well, then (quickly) puree, either with an immersion blender or by batches in a stand blender, together with butter, cream, maple syrup, apple cider, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add salt and pepper to taste. Heat thoroughly, and serve.

GARLIC ROASTED BUTTERNUT SQUASH

Steps:

• Peel and discard seeds of the squash.
• Clean out peppers
• Cube vegetables in small dice and place in large bowl.
• Peel and mince garlic and add to squash.
• Add the oil, rosemary, cheese, salt and pepper.
• Mix all together well and place in a greased baking dish.
• Bake uncovered at 350°F for 1 hour.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND ROASTED RED PEPPER BISQUE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F.
• Put olive oil in a Pyrex baking dish and lay out the red pepper (skin side up) and roast for 30 minutes.
• Melt butter in a very large skillet over medium heat and add garlic to saute.
• When garlic is soft and aromatic add the cubed squash and stir well to cover with the butter and garlic.
• As soon as the butter cooks away and the pan starts to glaze add the broth and bring to a boil.
• Add the roasted pepper.
• Season with white pepper, creole and salt to taste and stir well.
• Reduce and simmer for 20 minutes, occasionally mashing the squash with a wooden spoon.
• When all is soft, take a hand mixer and blend in the skillet.
• Add cream, stir and remove from heat.
• Put garlic cheese toast rounds in the bottom of a shallow soup bowl and ladle soup on top.
• Make the yummy sound.

GARLIC BUTTERNUT BISQUE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°. Remove papery outer skin from garlic bulbs, but do not peel or separate the cloves. Cut off top of garlic bulbs, exposing individual cloves; brush with oil. Wrap each in foil. Bake 30-35 minutes or until cloves are soft. Unwrap and cool 10 minutes. , Meanwhile, in a 6-qt. stockpot, heat 1/2 cup butter over medium-high heat. Add onions, carrots and celery; cook and stir until tender. Stir in squash, broth and 2 tablespoons sage; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 25-30 minutes or until squash is tender. Remove from heat; cool slightly., Squeeze garlic from skins into a small bowl; mash with a fork and stir into soup. In batches, process soup in a blender until smooth; return to pan., Stir in 1/2 cup cream, salt, pepper and remaining butter; heat through. If desired, garnish servings with additional cream and sage.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH BISQUE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Rinse squash, cut in half lengthwise and scoop out seeds.
• Places halves cut side down in a 12 by 7 inch baking pan.
• Peel, halve and core apples, add to pan.
• along with 1/4 cup water.
• Bake in a 400 degree oven until squash is tender when pierced, about 45 minutes, When cool enough to handle, scoop out flesh of squash from peels, discard peel.
• In a blender or food processer, (I use a hand blender, works great, this way you can do it right in the pan),Blend squash,apples and broth until smooth.
• Pour into 3 to 4 quart pan.
• Add wine, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and chili flakes.
• Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, and reduce heat to simmer, stirring occasionally to blend flavors, about 15 minutes.
• Add salt and pepper to taste, and stir in chives.