Butternut soup

The spices and apple add delicious flavours to the soup and the potatoes give it a creamy texture.

Ready in

1 hour

Serving size

Serves 6

Ingredients

  • 1 large (1 kg) butternut, peeled and chopped
  • 2 large potatoes, chopped
  • 2 onions, chopped
  • 1 Granny Smith apple, chopped
  • 2 tsp (10 ml) ground nutmeg
  • 1 tbsp (15 ml) ground cumin
  • 7 cups (1,75 litres) boiling water
  • ½ cup (125 ml) low-fat milk
  • lemon juice and black pepper to taste

Method

  1. Place veggies, apple and spices in a large pot with the water.
  2. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes or until the veggies are tender.
  3. Remove from the heat, blend mixture until smooth or mash with a potato masher.
  4. Return mixture to the pot and add milk, lemon juice and pepper.
  5. Heat through and serve warm.

Tips

  1. This soup freezes well if liquidised. Make double and freeze for another day.
  2. Cauliflower soup: Replace the butternut with 400 g cauliflower and another 2 potatoes. Cook as above (see video below.)
  3. Sweet potato can be used instead of the potatoes. The butternut can also be replaced with sweet potato for a sweet potato soup.

Butternut soup

Cauliflower soup, a variation on the butternut soup

This recipe is from Cooking from the heart, 1st edition

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