It's winter - or what passes for winter here - again. Fifteen degrees celsius and it feel colder in the bones than the minus zero temperatures of my childhood. So it's soup time. Well, realistically, anytime in my kitchen is soup time. Even when there is very little in the house.
I had no leeks and one very small acorn squash, two sweet peppers and couple of sad green onions. But roasting does wonders for tired vegetables. It concentrates their "vegetable-ness" and makes for a very tasty soup base.
Still not using chicken stock despite the age of the produce.
BT's Yellow and Red Soup For The Winter Blues
Ingredients:
1 acorn squash
2 carrots
3 cubanelle peppers
1 red chili
3 large green onions
1 small yellow onion
1 small potato
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoons vegetables oil
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon sugar
Juice of 1 lemon
6 cups (1.5 l) water
1 small bunch cilantro
1 green onion and labne for garnish
Directions:
Cut squash vertically
Peel carrots
Sprinkle carrots, face of squash halves, whole peppers and chili with olive oil
Sprinkle with salt
Place squash open side down on baking sheet
Place carrots, whole pepper and chili on baking sheet
Sprinkle with half of cinnamon and nutmeg
Roast at 375 F. (190 C.) for 45 minutes
Remove from oven and let cool
Scoop out seeds from squash and remove flesh - reserve
Peel outer, tough skin from peppers and rough chop
Cut carrots
Add vegetable oil to heavy gauge cocotte
Wash and dice green onions and add to pot
Turn flame to medium
Dice onion
When green onions begin to sizzle, add diced onion and sauté for 2-3 minutes
Add salt, remainder of nutmeg and cinnamon, sugar and cumin
Add water
Add squash, peppers and carrot
Squeeze the chili (like a toothpaste tube) and add pulp and seeds to soup
Peel and dice potato
Add to soup
Turn flame to low and simmer for 20 minutes
When vegetables are tender remove from heat and let cool
Purée soup using wand blender
Add cilantro and purée again
Add lemon juice
Serve with chopped green onion and labne
Enjoy! !בתיאבון
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