I've decided to try the whole family on sweet potato and butternut squash soup (although I may not be able to call it that as R didn't like the sweet potato when C put it in our curry on Saturday, so if anyone has any ideas of a name, that would be fab!) I had already bought the sweet potatoes and frozen butternut squash as I was going to make it for my lunch, but I thought with some nice crunchy bread it might work as a dinner.
I looked on the web for recipes and found this one by Nigella Lawson, L is a big fan of Nigella, so if I tell her it's a Nigella recipe she'll at least try it! This is her recipe
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/butternut-and-sweet-potato-soup-66
As you can see, this only serves two, and so I've had to tweak it slightly so that it'll feed six. Here's what I've done.
Ingredients:
4 sweet potatoes, peeled and chunked
500g (1 bag) of frozen, chunked butternut squash
2 red onions, sliced however you like
2300ml of stock (either vegetable or chicken, I used chicken as it was that or beef and I wasn't sure that would work lol)
Method:
Chuck it all in the slow cooker on high for about an hour, then on low until you are ready to eat it.
Use a hand held blender to blitz it so it's smooth (my lot won't eat chunky soup, that's not quite true C and hubby would, but the other three won't)
If you think it is too thin once blitzed, like I just did, you can mix up a paste using cornflower and water, I used about 1/4 cup and stirred it in, then turned up the heat on the slow cooker to high again to make sure it's cooked in, I also added a regular potato grated up into the soup, as potato is a natural thickener (maybe less liquid or more vegetables next time I make it.)
I've put mine in about 9.45am and we'll eat about 5pm with those part baked baguettes, I've got a gluten free one in the freezer for R and me.
I have got some cream to stir through it once it's cooked but I doubt I'll make the swirls (sorry Nigella!)
Fingers crossed they will all like it, I'll report back on it's success or failure later on!
I informed the little two that we were having soup for dinner as we got blown home from school and L was happy, but R informed me he hated soup, all soup. I told him that I expected him to try it as it was a lovely winter soup and he hadn't tried it before. I added a splash of cream into each bowl as I dished up and gave then their bowl of soup and sliced baguette (GF for R and me) and...they all liked it :-) I'm so happy and will be putting it on the four weekly planner.
For pudding we had meringues, strawberries, blueberries and cream, delicious.
Lupin Girl x
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