Squash Soup
Now that it’s winter, it’s clearly soup weather. The problem is, I rarely think of making soup. The other evening I had a squash that I really needed to use, and as usual an excess of chicken stock in the freezer, so I combined them to make this delicious soup.
Ingredients:
1 Yellow onion, diced
1 Squash, cut into large chunks
2 cups Chicken stock, homemade
Olive oil
Sea salt & Pepper
Preparation:
It’s this easy: steam the squash until tender, then remove flesh from skin. Set aside the skin for composting.
Saute the onion in olive oil, seasoning as desired. Add chicken stock and squash flesh. Mix well, then remove from heat and blend in a blender until smooth.
I served this the first night along with chicken breast and a simple salad. The next day, I drank the leftovers in a mug as a snack.
Unlike chard, I love the name of squash. Love it. It’s just fun to say.
Enjoy!
There’s a lovely little near the place I used to work, in San Telmo, called “Matilda’s”. They make these amazing soups (with no cream, which was awesome). Some of them were:
- Zuchinni with dill (my absolute favorite)
- Squash with Ginger (they’d boil a chunck of fresh ginger along with the squash)
- Potatoes with leak
- Onion cream
- Murkha Dal (that one I adored, an Indian recipe)
Now that I don’t work there any more I desperately miss the soups! I tried making them at home, but I didn’t have home made chicken stock, so I commited a sin and used dehidrated. The result was… inedible :p
I have never been attracted to the idea of squash of pumpkin soup. I like my soup to have a clear broth or be gravy like or tomatoey.
Maybe if I come across some I will take a taste.
Lalomi, those soups sound great!! Especially the potato-leek and onion cream. Yum. I will have to give those soups a try. I can’t stand chicken “stock” cubes. They’re so salty and weird tasting, especially now that I’ve gotten used to making my own stock (I have a pot on the stove right now).
Purplume, I really like creamy soups (without the cream). What are your favorite soups? Tomato soup sounds great right about now, but tomatoes are sooooooooooo out of season now and disgusting. I still buy them for A, because of the lycopene, but I had a salad last weekend with tomatoes and was so disgusted by their mealyness. Maybe they’d still work for a soup. I’ll check it out.