Banana Squash Soup With Sweet Potato And Green Apple Recipes

BANANA SQUASH SOUP WITH SWEET POTATO AND GREEN APPLE

Steps:

• Heat coconut oil and butter together in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil-butter mixture until slightly softened, 1 to 2 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.
• Stir squash, sweet potatoes, and apple into the onion mixture and cook until heated through, about 5 minutes. Pour in chicken broth and bring to a boil; add basil, curry powder, and bay leaf. Reduce heat and simmer until sweet potatoes and apple are softened, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper.
• Puree soup in the pot with a hand blender until smooth.

BANANA SQUASH SOUP WITH SWEET POTATO AND GREEN APPLE

Steps:

• Heat coconut oil and butter together in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil-butter mixture until slightly softened, 1 to 2 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.
• Stir squash, sweet potatoes, and apple into the onion mixture and cook until heated through, about 5 minutes. Pour in chicken broth and bring to a boil; add basil, curry powder, and bay leaf. Reduce heat and simmer until sweet potatoes and apple are softened, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper.
• Puree soup in the pot with a hand blender until smooth.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP WITH APPLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• In a roasting pan, mix the squash, potatoes, apples, onions, oil, 2 teaspoons salt, and the pepper.
• Roast, stirring twice, 55 minutes or until tender.
• In a food processor or blender, in batches, puree squash mixture, blending some broth and water into each batch.
• Pour into Dutch oven and stir in remaining salt, broth, water, the half and half, and butter.
• Heat over medium heat until the butter melts.
• For the garnish, preheat the broiler and line a baking sheet with foil.
• Place red-apple slices at least 1" apart on sheet and top each with slightly overlapping slice of green apple.
• Top with slice of cheese (breaking in half to fit if necessary).
• Broil 1 to 2 minutes to melt cheese and remove from oven.
• Let stand 1 minute.
• Ladle soup into 8 bowls, top each with apple-cheese garnish, chives, and pepper.