Butternut Squash and Carrot soup

[Lottie Lou]

I had to share this as I made it yesterday and it was divine!

Butternut Squash and Carrot soup

The baking of these vegetables brings out the sweetness of the squash and the wonderful flavour of the vegetables.

Ingredients
1 butternut squash
1 red onion (chopped)
2 shallots (chopped)
2 medium carrots (chopped)
1 red pepper
1 small / medium potato (chopped)
2 cloves of garlic
2 teaspoons of cumin seeds
2 tablespoons sesame oil
2 tablespoons smoked pimento / paprika (optional)
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
1 vegetable stock cube (preferably organic)
500ml water

Method
• Cube the squash. Put on a baking tray, sprinkle with sesame oil and cumin seeds and smoked pimento, if used.
• Bake in a preheated oven (180c) for approx 15 – 20 mins, until squash starts to go soft.
• Put chopped red onion, shallots and red pepper in an ovenproof dish with the cloves of garlic (left whole) and the balsamic vinegar.
• Bake in oven with the squash and also leave until soft.
• Put 500ml boiling water into a big pan and add the stock cube, chopped carrots and potatoes. Bring back to the boil.
• Add the squash and baked vegetables to the pan. Simmer gently until the potato and carrots start to disintegrate. Add more water if needed.
• Remove from heat. When cooled liquidise until smooth.
• For serving add yoghurt or fromage frais and freshly baked granary bread.
• This is a very thick creamy yellow/gold soup that can be thinned down with vegetable stock if necessary.
• This soup freezes well. Pumpkin can be used instead of squash, if available.

[Wellie]

Yes Lottie, that sounds perfectly scrumptious to me, and one I'll certainly be adding to my freezer next week...!

Got any more where that came from ?!

[Tigger]

I'll do that tomorrow.

[Wellie]

Lottie Lou,
I made it yesterday, with a few alterations:
1 LARGE red onion, instead of adding shallots too.
NO potato at all.
and a total of one and a quarter litres of vegetable bouillon stock.

It was like VELVET, and I shall certainly be making more of it.
Thank you.

[ken_tireman]

sounds like a delicious soup, im definitely going to try this one.