Local squashes together with pumpkins are inwards flavor now, together with I beloved to stock the pantry shelves amongst a small-scale assortment of these attractive gourds — they operate on hence long, together with it's but somehow comforting to pick out them roughly but inwards representative yous wishing to brand uncomplicated mutual frigidity weather condition vegetable fare similar this colorful, nourishing together with lightly spiced soup. Roasting the butternut squelch earlier adding to the soup enhances the flavor of the sugariness orangish flesh instead of turning it bland together with watery, together with the add-on of puréed cannellini beans lends heartiness together with creaminess. And a scattering of crunchy toasted pistachio pieces is the perfect sense of savor together with texture complete inwards the oral fissure at the terminate of a spoonful.
 Roasted Butternut Squash & Cannellini Bean Soup amongst Spices together with Toasted Pistachios |
Recipe past times Lisa Turner
Published on October 26, 2012
Simple, warm, creamy, nourishing together with sugariness roasted butternut squelch soup amongst puréed cannellini beans together with spices topped amongst toasted pistachios
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Ingredients:
- 1/3 loving cup dried cannellini (white kidney) beans (1 loving cup cooked)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 medium butternut squelch (2 lbs or two to iii cups)
- 1/4 loving cup raw pistachios, chopped
- 1 tablespoon butter or oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Earth cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon dried reddish chili flakes
- pinch of Earth cloves
- 2 cups vegetable stock
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
- 1 teaspoon ocean salt, or to taste
- fresh Earth dark pepper to taste
- 1/4 loving cup cream or plainly whole fatty yogurt (optional)
Instructions:
Rinse the beans together with soak for 8 hours or overnight covered inwards several inches of water. Drain together with rinse, together with then transfer to a small-scale saucepan together with embrace amongst iii cups of fresh water. Add the bay leaf, pick out to a boil, trim back oestrus to low, cover, together with simmer for ane to ane 1/2 hours or until tender. Set aside, reserving the cooking liquid. Meanwhile, preheat an oven to 400° together with pose the rack inwards the middle of the oven. Cut the squelch inwards half, take the seeds together with pulp, together with grade the flesh amongst a knife. Brush amongst butter or crude together with transfer to an oiled baking sail or pan. Bake until the squelch is fork tender — well-nigh sixty to lxxx minutes. Let cool. Remove the pare together with scoop the flesh into a small-scale bowl. Spread the chopped pistachios evenly on a baking sail or tray. Toast inwards a 325° oven or toaster oven for 10 to fifteen minutes, stirring occasionally, until browned together with fragrant. Set aside. Heat the butter or crude inwards a large saucepan over medium-low heat. When hot, add together the onion together with sauté for 10 minutes or until soft. Now add together the curry powder, Earth cumin, chili flakes together with Earth cloves, together with stir for xxx seconds. Now add together the beans together with their cooking liquid, the squelch together with the vegetable stock. Turn upward the oestrus together with pick out to a simmer. Cook for twenty minutes, stirring occasionally together with adding to a greater extent than H2O or vegetable stock if yous wishing a thinner consistency. Remove from oestrus together with discard the bay leaf. Purée the soup until shine amongst an immersion blender or inwards batches inwards a countertop blender. (You tin laissez passer on the sack strain the soup if yous wishing it really smooth.) Season amongst garam masala, common salt together with enough of fresh Earth dark pepper. Serve hot or warm, garnished amongst a scattering of the toasted pistachios together with a swirl of cream or yogurt if desired.
Makes 4 to half dozen servings |
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Other autumn together with wintertime soups from my kitchen:
Cranberry Wild Rice Soup Red Bean together with Squash Soup Split Pea together with Mushroom Soup Curry-Laced Pumpkin together with Potato Soup On the elevation of the reading stack: "Life is Elsewhere" past times Milan Kundera
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