Chai Spiced Butternut Squash Soup With Apple Cream Food

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.

CHAI-SPICED BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP WITH APPLE CREAM

Steps:

• First, make the apple cream: combine crème fraîche, apple cider and cinnamon in a small bowl. Cover and refrigerate to allow the flavors to combine.
• For the soup, melt the butter in a large soup pot over medium-high heat.
• Add onions and cook, stirring frequently, until translucent, about 6 minutes.
• Stir in cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, ginger and cardamom.
• Cook until fragrant, stirring constantly, about 1 minute.
• Stir in butternut squash, fennel, chicken stock and apple cider.
• Cover, reduce heat to medium and cook until the butternut squash is tender, about 15 minutes.
• Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
• Blend the soup in small batches until smooth.
• Return to the pot and stir in milk and salt.
• Bring soup to a simmer about medium heat.
• Taste and adjust seasoning, adding more spice if desired. Serve soup with a generous drizzle of apple cream and chopped parsley.

SPICED APPLE-BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP RECIPE

Steps:

• Melt butter in large saucepan on medium heat. Add onions; cook 4 min. or until crisp-tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in nutmeg; cook 1 min. Add squash, apples and broth; stir. Bring to boil; cover. Simmer on medium-low heat 50 min. or until squash and apples are tender, stirring occasionally.
• Cool soup slightly. Add, in batches, to food processor or blender; cover. Process until smooth; return to saucepan. Cook on medium-low heat until heated through, stirring occasionally.
• Ladle soup into 8 serving bowls. Add 1 Tbsp. cream cheese spread to each bowl; stir gently to swirl.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP WITH CHILLI & CRèME FRAîCHE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6.
• Cut 1 peeled and deseeded butternut squash into large cubes, about 4cm/1½in across, then toss in a large roasting tin with 1 tbsp of the olive oil.
• Roast for 30 mins, turning once during cooking, until golden and soft.
• While the butternut squash cooks, melt 1 tbsp butter with the remaining 1 tbsp olive oil in a large saucepan, then add 2 diced onions, 1 thinly sliced garlic clove and ¾ of the 2 deseeded and finely chopped red chillies.
• Cover and cook on a very low heat for 15-20 mins until the onions are completely soft.
• Tip the butternut squash into the pan, add 850ml hot vegetable stock and 4 tbsp crème fraîche, then whizz with a stick blender until smooth. For a really silky soup, put the soup into a liquidiser and blitz it in batches.
• Return to the pan, gently reheat, then season to taste.
• Serve the soup in bowls with swirls of crème fraîche and a scattering of the remaining chopped chilli.

CURRY SPICED SQUASH SOUP

Steps:

• Cut squash in half; discard seeds. Place squash cut side down in a 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Add 1/2 in. of hot water to pan. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 40 minutes. Drain water from pan; turn squash cut side up. Bake 20-30 minutes longer or until tender. Cool slightly. , Carefully scoop out squash into a blender or food processor; cover and process until smooth. Set aside., In a large saucepan, saute onion and apple in butter until tender. Add the garlic, curry powder and ginger; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in broth and pureed squash. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to low. Add the cream, salt, pepper and cayenne if desired; heat through (do not boil).

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).

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND GREEN APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a large thick-bottomed pot on medium-high heat. Melt the butter in the pot and let it foam up and recede. Add the onion, carrot, and celery and sauté for 5 minutes. Lower the heat if the vegetables begin to brown.
• 2 Add the butternut squash, apple, broth and water. Bring to boil. Reduce to a simmer, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes or so, until the squash and carrots have softened.
• 3 Use an immersion blender to purée the soup, or work in batches and purée the soup in a standing blender.
• 4 Add pinches of nutmeg, cinnamon, and cayenne. Add salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with chopped fresh parsley or chives.
• recipe originally found on simply recipes (butternut squash apple soup).

SPICED BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and cook until tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Add ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, cardamom, and cloves and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add carrots, apple, squash, and 3 cups water. Bring to a boil; cover partially and reduce to a simmer. Season with salt and pepper.
• Cook until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. Let cool slightly.
• Working in batches, puree until smooth in a blender. Adjust seasoning, if necessary.