SQUASH-SOUP - Makes a meal with cheese, bread, and red wine. Here is a rich soup which is easy to make and popular with guests. I like this best with cheese, bread and red wine as a winter meal, but you can serve it as a first course. The original recipe came from Food & Wine magazine a couple of years ago.
30 ml unsalted butter 1 small onion, chopped 5 ml rosemary 1 small butternut squash, peeled and cut into chunks 1.5 l chicken stock 250 ml heavy cream 5 ml salt 2.5 ml freshly ground white pepper hot pepper sauce 60 g chopped walnuts, toasted
(1) Melt the butter over moderate heat in a large heavy saucepan. Add the onion and rosemary. Cook for about 5 minutes until the onion is soft. (2) Add the squash, chicken stock, cream, salt, pepper and hot pepper sauce. Reduce the heat and cover. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 2 hours until the squash is very soft. (3) Use a food processor or blender to puree the hot soup. Add additional stock if the soup is too thick. (4) Toast and chop the walnuts. Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with the walnuts.
As a variation, you may chop some or all of the walnuts in the food processor or blender while the soup is pureed. This will give the soup a slightly different taste and tex- ture.
Difficulty: easy. Time: 15 minutes preparation, 2 hours cooking. Precision: measure the hot pepper sauce.
Fred Brehm Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, USA ihnp4!princeton!siemens!fwb fwb@siemens.com
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