Autumn Gold Butternut Squash Soup - With Thai Inspired Flavors

"A beautiful golden-hued butternut squash soup, with a delightful Thai accent! Delicious! The perfect first course for an autumnal meal, or serve as a light main course with a tossed salad and crusty bread. Feel free to adjust seasonings to your tastes. Recipe is an adapted one from Whole Foods Market."
 
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Ready In:
55mins
Ingredients:
14
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat olive oil in a large soup pot. Add carrot, celery and onion, and stir in the curry paste and the chopped ginger. Cook until vegetables are tender and ginger is aromatic, 3 to 4 minutes.
  • Add butternut squash, stirring to combine. Bring to a boil (add a little chicken broth if necessary), then reduce heat and simmer until squash is fork-tender, about 30 minutes. Stir in chicken broth and light or regular coconut milk. Season with salt and pepper; taste and adjust seasonings, if necessary.
  • Use an immersion blender to puree soup. Alternatively, let the soup cool slightly and carefully puree in batches in a traditional blender.
  • Garnish each serving with 1 or 2 pappadums, a tablespoon toasted coconut flakes and a tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro. A squeeze of fresh lime juice is also good. Enjoy!

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Reviews

  1. Very nice! We loved this soup. I think it's very dependent on your choice of curry paste - we used golden curry, which is fairly mild. So needed to "punch" it up a bit with a little chili paste. Looking forward to having some more for lunch tomorrow! Thanks for sharing.
     
  2. This was the first soup I've ever made from scratch! I always thought you would need a food processor to make it but a blender works just fine. For this recipe I used yellow curry paste to make it mild and when I added the squash I put in half a cup of broth until it softened before I added the rest of the liquids. The flavour turned out just as I had hoped....awesome!
     
  3. We LOVE this soup!! The flavors of the coconut, curry, and cilantro stand out but don't overpower the squash. I have to adjust the amount of curry depending on how spicy the particular curry is, but other than that I make it according to the recipe. A real keeper!
     
  4. January 12, 2009 Absolutely delicious. It was served to a large group of people for a New Year Eve dinner. I tripled the recipe and had it for lunch for several more days. I used the red curry paste and it was still a very mild soup. It was a big hit and I will be sharing the recipe with many others.
     
  5. Excellent! Easy to do, inexpensive, yet impressive. I made it just as written. I used the 1 Tbsp. red curry paste and found it added just the right amount of heat and intrigue! (It was kind of a Goldilocks story here -- one person thought it was too hot, one added scriracha to make it hotter, and I thought it was juuuuust riiiight!) So glad to find this recipe. Thanks so much. **Update: Made again, still love it! ;)
     
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