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Roast butternut squash soup with brown shrimps by Monica Galetti
December 12, 2019
This is a delicious, flavoursome winter recipe, perfect for warming you up as the cold winter nights draw in. Also a perfect quick dish if you are short of time at supper!
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Portions: 2
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This is a delicious, flavoursome winter recipe, perfect for warming you up as the cold winter nights draw in. Also a perfect quick dish if you are short of time at supper!
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Ingredients
1 Medium butternut squash
Olive oil for cooking
1 Onion, peeled and chopped in the mini chopper
3 Garlic cloves, peeled, halved and germ removed
1 Tbsp Pine nuts
800ml Vegetable or chicken stock
25g Butter
120g Cooked peeled brown shrimps or crayfish tails
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 Tbsp single cream (optional) to finish
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Method
Heat the oven to 200c/gas 6.
Peel, halve and deseed the butternut squash, then cut into 2cm chunks and place in a roasting tray
Drizzle with olive oil and season with a few pinches of sea salt
Roast in the oven for about 20 minutes until soft and caramelised
Meanwhile, heat a drizzle of olive oil in a medium saucepan
Add the chopped onion and sweat gently over a low heat for 7-8 minutes to soften
Add garlic and sweat for another minute
Add the pine nuts and cook for a minute or two until lightly golden and take the pan off the heat
Once the squash is cooked, add it to the onion mixture
Return to the heat
Pour on enough stock to cover and bring to the boil
Lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes
Take the pan off the heat and using Dualit Blending stick , blitz the soup until smooth
Season with salt and pepper to taste and add enough of the remaining stock to give the required consistency. Heat through gently until hot
Melt the butter in a frying pan over a medium heat
Add the Brown shrimp or crayfish tails and gently warm
Spoon the Brown shrimp or crayfish into middle of soup bowl and pour the butternut squash soup around
Finish with a drizzle of cream and serve with toasted wholemeal bread
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Dualit Products Used
Dualit Hand Blender
£99.99
Dualit Mini Oven
£174.99
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