Acorn Squash Soup
Recipe Type: Soup
Cuisine: American
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A warm yummy soup with acorn squash from the summer garden
Ingredients
- Olive oil and salt and pepper for roasting acorn squash
- 4 tbs butter
- 1 cup onions chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 4 inch piece of fresh ginger minced (1 tbs) (or 1 tsp ground ginger)
- 4 cups roasted acorn squash (I used 7, cut in half)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tbs fresh thyme leaves (1 tsp dried)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/4 freshly grated nutmeg
- 6 cups chicken broth (preferably homemade)
- 1/2 cup cream sherry
- 1/2 cup half and half
- 4 tbs fresh parsley chopped (optional)
- 1/2 cup toasted walnuts (optional)
Instructions
- Prepare acorn squash by cleaning out seeds and cutting in half. Place on a baking sheet and cover with olive oil and salt and pepper. Roast at 400 degrees for 1/2 hour or until cooked through. Set aside and remove the squash when cool and set aside.
- In a separate dry pan toast walnuts until light brown, set aside.
- In a large stock pot melt butter and add onions, garlic and ginger. Cook for 5 minutes until soft but not browned on medium heat.
- Add acorn squash, salt and pepper, thyme, nutmeg and bay leaf. Stir to incorporate.
- Add chicken broth and cream sherry. Simmer for 20 minutes.
- With a hand blender (or regular blender in small batches) incorporate until smooth.
- Stir in half and half and parsley.
- Serve warm with toasted walnuts.
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I love that you’ve combined family memories of butternut squash and sherry. This soup sounds delicious not to mention so pretty in the bowl. Love the topping of nuts. In Germany this would have been a sprinkling of crumbled roasted chestnuts. Which I am now obsessed with. Great recipe Heather, thanks for sharing.
So excited its soup season! I make a similar acorn squash soup, but I’m loving the sound of walnuts on top. Yum!
I like nuts on everything! They add a nice substance to the soup!
Heather, I tried the Chicken Green Chili Stew last week….YUM!!!!
Can’t wait to try the Acorn Squash!!!! LOVE your Blog!!!
Awesome Kathy! Thanks so much! No taste tester on today’s soup so hopefully people like it!