Squash Cider And Apple Soup Recipes

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Warm the butter, olive oil, onions, and curry powder in a large stockpot uncovered over low heat for 15 to 20 minutes, until the onions are tender. Stir occasionally, scraping the bottom of the pot.
• Peel the squash, cut in half, and remove the seeds. Cut the squash into chunks. Peel, quarter, and core the apples. Cut into chunks.
• Add the squash, apples, salt, pepper, and 2 cups of water to the pot. Bring to a boil, cover, and cook over low heat for 30 to 40 minutes, until the squash and apples are very soft. Process the soup through a food mill fitted with a large blade, or puree it coarsely in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade.
• Pour the soup back into the pot. Add the apple cider or juice and enough water to make the soup the consistency you like; it should be slightly sweet and quite thick. Check the salt and pepper and serve hot.

APPLE-CHEDDAR-SQUASH SOUP

Steps:

• Melt 4 tablespoons butter in a large pot over medium-low heat and add the onion, apples, potato and squash. Season with salt and pepper and cook until the onion is soft, about 8 minutes. Stir in the sage and flour. Add the cider and cook over high heat, stirring, until thickened. Add the broth and milk, cover and bring to a boil; reduce to a simmer and cook, stirring, until the potato is soft, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the prosciutto and cook until crisp, turning occasionally, about 2 minutes. Drain on paper towels.
• Add the cheese to the soup and stir over medium-low heat until melted. Puree in a blender in batches until smooth; season with salt and pepper. Garnish with the prosciutto, more cheese and chives, if using. Serve with bread, if desired.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE CIDER SOUP

Steps:

• Heat butter in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion in the melted butter until translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Add butternut squash, potatoes, apple, carrot, and celery to onion; pour in chicken broth and enough apple cider to cover vegetables. Bring mixture to a boil and cover pot. Reduce heat and simmer, adding more apple cider as needed, until vegetables are tender, 35 to 40 minutes.
• Blend vegetable mixture with an immersion blender until smooth; stir in cream, cinnamon, and cloves. Simmer until heated through, 5 to 10 minutes. Spoon soup into serving bowls; top each with about 1 tablespoon sour cream and a pinch of nutmeg.

CURRIED SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in large saucepan on medium heat. Add onions; cook 4 min. or until crisp-tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in curry powder; cook and stir 1 min.
• Add squash, apples, broth and vinegar; stir. Bring to boil; cover. Simmer on medium-low heat 25 to 30 min. or until squash and apples are tender, stirring occasionally. Cool slightly.
• Process soup, in batches, in food processor until smooth. Return to saucepan. Add cream cheese; cook on medium-low heat 3 to 5 min. or until cream cheese is completely melted and soup is heated through, stirring constantly with whisk.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium-high heat. Saute butternut squash, leeks, carrots, and celery in hot butter until vegetables are softened, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Stir apples, thyme, and sage into the squash mixture; pour in chicken stock and cider. Bring mixture to a simmer, reduce heat to low, cover pot with a lid, and cook until vegetables and apples are tender, about 30 minutes. Remove soup from heat and cool slightly, about 10 minutes.
• Pour soup into a blender no more than half full. Cover and hold lid down; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend. Puree in batches until smooth. Return mixture to pot and season with salt to taste. Garnish individual servings with crumbled bacon.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP MADE WITH APPLE CIDER

Steps:

• Begin by peeling and seeding the butternut squash. Roughly cut into 3-inch chunks. In a heavy bottomed soup pot or Dutch oven, melt 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat and cook onion until translucent.
• Add butternut squash and chicken broth, apple cider, sage, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice. Turn the heat up to medium-high and simmer the soup until the butternut squash is very soft and pierced easily with a fork.
• Take the soup off the heat and allow it to cool enough that it's safe to blend. With a blender, blend the soup in three batches until it's totally smooth and creamy. (If you don't have a blender you can use a hand held immersion blender although I have found they don't get soups quite as smooth.)
• Return the pureed soup to the Dutch oven. Add cream and rewarm the soup over low heat. Taste the soup now and take the time to adjust the seasonings.
• Carefully add more salt and pepper to taste. Top the soup with croutons, or Cinnamon Spiced Granola and/or a drizzle of cream or goat cheese. Enjoy!

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP WITH CIDER CREAM

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large pot over med-high heat; when hot, add in the squash, leeks, carrots, and celery; saute/stir until vegetables have softened slightly, 10-12 minutes.
• Add in apples, thyme, and sage; add in stock and 1 cup cider.
• Bring mixture to a simmer; decrease heat, cover, and simmer gently until vegetables and apples are tender, stirring occasionally, for about 30 minutes.
• Remove from heat and cool slightly.
• Meanwhile, make the cider cream--boil the remaining 1/2 cup cider in a small saucepan until it reduces to 1/4 cup, for about 5 minutes.
• Cool, then place sour cream in a bowl and whisk in reduced cider (cider cream can be prepared 1 day ahead; cover and refrigerate until ready to use).
• Puree the soup in batches in a food processor, blender, or food mill and return soup to the pot (can use an immersion blender to puree the soup in the pot).
• Taste soup and season with salt, as needed (soup can be prepared 1 day ahead, cool, cover, and refrigerate; reheat over medium heat).
• For the garnish--halve and core the reserved apple, then cut one half into paper-thin slices (eat or save the remaining half for another use).
• To serve--ladle soup into 6 shallow bowls and drizzle with cider cream; garnish each serving with crumbled bacon and a couple of apple slices.

SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot (6 to 8 quarts), heat oil over medium heat. Add onion; cook, stirring frequently, until beginning to brown, 4 to 6 minutes. Stir in apples; cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove 1/2 cup apple mixture, and set aside for garnish.
• Stir cider, ginger, and 2 1/2 cups water into apple mixture in pot; bring to a boil. Stir in squash puree; cook until thawed, 8 to 10 minutes. Reduce heat; simmer until mixture has thickened, 15 to 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• Ladle soup into bowls. Garnish each serving with 1 tablespoon yogurt and 2 tablespoons of reserved apple mixture.

SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan melt butter over medium heat; cook onion, stirring occasionally, for 4 minutes or until softened. Add squash, apples, potato, ginger and pepper; stir in water. Cover and bring to boil; reduce heat to low and simmer for 12 to 15 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
• In food processor or blender, puree soup, in batches if necessary, until smooth. Return to saucepan. Stir in apple cider and brown sugar; heat to boiling. Garnish with dollop of yogurt and sprinkle with pecans.

ROASTED ACORN, BUTTERNUT, AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Mix butter, brown sugar, and honey together in a bowl. Spoon about 1/6 of the butter mixture into the cavities of each of the butternut squash halves and the acorn squash halves. Arrange squash halves in large baking dishes.
• Roast squash in preheated oven for about 30 minutes. Arrange apples around the squash halves and continue baking until flesh is easily removable with a spoon, about 30 minutes more.
• When you add the apples to the oven, heat olive oil in a small skillet over medium-low heat; add onion and thyme. Cook onion, stirring frequently, until completely caramelized, about 30 minutes.
• Scoop roasted squash into a large pot; add apples and caramelized onion. Pour vegetable stock, apple cider, and water into the pot; bring to a boil and remove from heat.
• Pour soup into a blender no more than half full. Cover and hold lid down; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend. Puree in batches until smooth. Reheat before serving, as needed.

SQUASH AND CIDER SOUP

Steps:

• With a vegetable peeler, peel the squash from top to bottom. With a large, heavy knife, cut it in half lengthwise. Discard the seeds. Cut the two halves in half lengthwise, and then cut across to make large cubes. There should be about 4 cups.
• Swirl olive oil in the bottom of a large, heavy pot. Add onion and garlic, and cook slowly until soft, about 5 minutes. Add squash cubes, stock and 1 cup of cider. Cover, and cook over medium heat until the squash is very tender, about 20 minutes.
• Uncover, remove pot from heat and let rest 10 minutes. In a food processor, puree the mixture, in 2 batches if necessary. Return the mixture to the pot, and whisk in up to 1 cup of the remaining cider, thinning mixture to desired consistency. Season well with salt and pepper. Heat again until very hot, divide into 6 soup bowls and serve. (Soup can be made in advance and frozen, or refrigerated overnight and reheated before serving.)

BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP WITH CIDER CREAM

Steps:

• Melt butter in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add squash, leeks, carrot and celery; sauté until slightly softened, about 15 minutes. Mix in apples, thyme and sage. Add stock and 1 cup cider and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer until apples are tender, stirring occasionally, about 30 minutes. Cool slightly.
• Working in batches, purée soup in blender. Return soup to pan. Boil remaining 1/2 cup cider in heavy small saucepan until reduced to 1/4 cup, about 5 minutes. Cool. Place sour cream in small bowl. Whisk in reduced cider. (Soup and cider cream can be made 1 day ahead. Cover separately and refrigerate.)
• Bring soup to simmer. Mix in whipping cream. Ladle soup into bowls. Drizzle with cider cream. Top with chives.

HUBBARD SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Slowly cook onions in butter, add the apples and cook until soft.
• Add squash and allow to sweat if necessary.
• Add broth to cover veggies and the sprig of rosemary.
• Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Remove rosemary.
• Wisk the four and milk together and add to the pot and stir until the soup bubbles again for a minute.
• When all is soft and cooked through use your stick blender or regular blender to puree the soup smooth.
• Add curry to taste and serve.

SQUASH, CIDER, AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt the margarine in a medium-size pot or large saucepan over moderate heat.
• Stir in the onion, cover, and sweat for 10 minutes.
• Add the squash, apples, stock, salt, and bay leaf to the pot.
• Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to moderately low, cover, and simmer the soup until the squash and apples are very soft, about 20 minutes.
• Remove from the heat.
• As the soup simmers, pour the cider into a medium-size skillet, bring to a boil, and reduce to 4 or 5 tablespoons; you don't have to be too precise about it.
• Remove from the heat.
• Remove the bay leaf from the soup, then spoon the solids into a food processor.
• Process the mixture until smooth, then stir it back into the broth.
• Add the reduced cider.
• Reheat the soup, stirring in the brown sugar and spices.
• Serve piping hot.