Nourishing Butternut Squash Soup

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April from the 21st Century Housewife, each week, leaves a wonderful recipe on My Meatless Mondays.  I look forward to seeing what she is going to leave for me to enjoy.  Actually, we get excellent and innovative recipes, week after week, from those who link up.  If you have any meatless recipes, you would like to share, here is the place to go.  If you want meatless recipes, again, here is where you may want to go.

This week, April had a simple but welcoming soup, for the cold days, we are having.  Honestly, as I looked at her soup, I decided, we would have that soup for dinner.  It didn’t quite work out.  She made a sweet potato soup and I had no sweet potatoes, in the house.

I did have a butternut squash and some baby carrots so voila, I made a butternut squash soup with the tang of scallions.

Nourishing and Creamy Butternut Squash Soup

2 tablespoons Hazelnut, Canola or Olive oil

1 large onioned, sliced

1 medium butternut squash, sliced in food processor to make thin

10 baby carrots, sliced in food processor

4 cups organic, no salt, vegetable broth

2 cups water

1 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 cup soy milk

4 scallions, chopped

Method:

Heat oil in large saucepan.

Cook onions to translucent or if you like the taste of fried onions, like I do, until light brown.

While the onions were cooking, I used the food processor to thinly slice the squash and carrots.

Add squash to saucepan and coat with the onions.

Add carrots and coat with onions.                                                                                                                                                        

Cook for five minutes, mixing occasionally.

Add vegetable broth and water.

Add spices.

Cook on low for an hour.

Add soy milk.

I cut up a scallion for a photo op and loved the crunch, it added to the soup, I am adding a bunch of scallions just to float on top and get crunched.

If you like a sweeter soup, add 1 tablespoon brown sugar, in the beginning of cooking.

I enjoyed my bowl of soup and plan to have another one with my husband, when he arrives.

 

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