27811 Curried butternut squash soup for 6 2 hours 6 Sat Oct 10 21:19:37 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 21:19:37 -0700 2009 Easy American User http://www.chow.com/recipes/27811 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:19:37 GMT Delicious autum soup. Spicy, not for the faint of heart. Recipe is great with homemade gruyere crackers rolled in poppyseed. Looks spectacular in white dishes.

]]>
  • Cut butternut in half, take out the seeds. Slice yellow pepper in thick slices.
  • Have oven set at 375 F
  • Oil each half of butternut squash with olive oil. Place in a pyrex dish face down along with the sliced yellow pepper. Add about 1 1/2 cup of water in the fish. Cover with foil. Bake for about 1 hour or until squash is soft.
  • While squash is cooked, fry bacon. Set aside. Remove bacon fat from pan. Add a bit of olive oil to pan, fry chopped serrano peppers. Remove from pan and set aside..
  • In a large casserole add 3 tablespoons of olive oil, and curry, Fry curry for about a minute making sure it doesn’t burn.
  • Add vegetables to casserole, chopped celery, carrot, shallots and onions and cook for about 5 minutes. Make sure vegies don’t burn. Once done set aside.
  • Once the squash and yellow pepper is cooked, scoop out the squash and add to casserole with the yellow pepper.
  • Add vegetable broth. Cook on simmer for about an hour.
  • Add cream and simmer until everything is heated through.
  • Remove casserole from stove. Put soup through the blender.
  • Replace in casserole add salt and pepper and heat up again.
  • To serve heat up bacon (cut in bits) and serrano peppers. Top soup with bacon and peppers.
    • ]]>     http://www.chow.com CHEFINTHECLOSET 49 Soup/Salad/Sandwich 2 medium size butternut squash

    ]]>     1 plump yellow pepper

    ]]>     1 quart low sodium vegetable stock

    ]]>     2 stalks of celery chopped fine

    ]]>     1 large fresh carrot, cut in about 1 inch

    ]]>     2 tablespoons of Bombay yellow curry

    ]]>     3 tablespoon of olive oil

    ]]>     2 shallots chopped fine

    ]]>     1 large white onion chopped fine

    ]]>     2 cups of cream

    ]]>     6 slices of bacon fried crisp, broken into bits

    ]]>     3 serrano peppers

    ]]>     fresh dill

    ]]>     1 tablespoon of roasted garlic

    ]]>     2 teaspoons of salt

    ]]>     2 teaspoons of black pepper

    ]]>