You will of course have noticed the recent bite in the air . The chill in the morning when you leave for work when all you want to do is retreat under the covers and stay there all day and watch episodes back to back of 24, Don’t Tell the Bride and CSI Miami. I for one noticed Autumn was arriving when I had the urge to make my delicious sweet potato and butternut squash soup, the perfect Autumnal meal. Filling, bright orange and dirt cheap, could you get a better soup? Well yes – pea and mint. But that’s more of a summer soup so we won’t talk about that. So please find below for my heart warming bright orange soup, and please excuse the picture. One of our lights is broken and our landlord is rubbish so hasn’t got round to fixing it (it broke about 2 months ago) so it looks weird. Also it just occurred to me that this soup would make a good starter for a Halloween dinner party.
Bright Orange Sweet Potato and Butternut Squash Soup
Ingredients:
1 HUGE (if not huge lots of little) sweet potato
1 butternut squash
Few carrots
1 onion
3 chicken stock cubes
Boiling water
Salt and pepper
Few pinches of nutmeg
Method
1) Boil a kettle to the top while carrying out step two
2) Peel and chop the sweet potato, butternut squash and carrots and onion
3) Pour boiling water into a large saucepan/ casserole dish and bung all of the veg in with the stock cubes, nutmeg and seasoning
4) Leave to simmer for about 30-40 minutes, checking occasionally
5) Use a handheld blender/mixer and whizz while it’s in the pan (but obvs off the heat), blending until nearly smooth but has a few lumps in for texture
6) Leave to simmer for 5 more minutes
7) Serve alongside some lovely homemade crusty granary bread (or from the in-house bakery at your nearest supermarket) and proper butter
I took this with my phone so it looks rank but it's truly delicious & a lovely bright orange colour in real life
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