Butternut Squash and Chestnut Soup

That is an all-shades-of-orange soup, filled with nutritional vitamins and fiber. It’s additionally an amazing supply of antioxidants and minerals that cut back the chance of cardiovascular ailments.

The butternut squash brings a nutty taste to the soup, the carrot and the candy potato add some sweetness, and the chestnut makes it a heat Christmassy dish.

Photograph de Sophie Lechanoine Natur-Artwork Photograph

Serving: 10 folks
Prep time: 30 min
Cooking time: 30 min

1 onion
1 garlic clove
2 leeks
1 butternut squash
1 huge carrot or 2 small carrots
2 medium-sized candy potatoes
1 cup / 150 gr cooked chestnut – straightforward to search out between November and December.
2 L / 8 cups water
3 bouillon cubes – It may be a mixture of greens and rooster or simply greens to make it vegetarian.

Ornament:
Cooked chestnuts
Cilantro
Cayenne pepper

1- Pour the olive oil into the pan.

2- Peel and minimize the onion into 8 items. Peel the garlic clove and minimize it lengthwise to take away the stem. Minimize it into items and throw them with the onions within the pan. Stir a bit bit on medium-high warmth. Don’t brown the onions.

3- Minimize the darkish inexperienced elements of the leeks and discard them. Minimize the white half into massive slices (1.5 cm or ½ inch) and add them to the pan and stir.

4- Peel the carrots and the candy potatoes and minimize them into massive items. Throw them within the pan and stir.

5- Minimize the butternut squash in two to make it simpler to peel. Minimize the bulb half in two to take away the seeds. Minimize the butternut squash into small cubes of two.5 cm or 1 inch. Add them to the greens within the pan and stir for a minute.

6- Minimize the chestnuts into huge chunks and add them to the pan.

7- Add the water and the bouillon cubes. Cowl with the lid and depart it till the stress cooker whistles. In case you are utilizing a traditional pan, it’d take 45 min for the greens to prepare dinner. If the water is evaporating, add water throughout the cooking course of.

8- Take away the pan from the warmth and depart it to chill down. Take away the lid and use a hand blender to combine the soup. You can even use a meals processor or a blender.

9- Minimize the chestnuts left for adornment into small items and warmth them in a skillet.

Pour the soup into every bowl and place a spoon of chestnuts within the center. Sprinkle with chopped cilantro and cayenne pepper to reinforce the style and the colour.

That is the proper season to organize this soup. Christmas 2020 may not appear like some other Christmas, however we are able to at all times please ourselves with a scrumptious meal.

Photograph de Sophie Lechanoine Natur-Artwork Photograph