Butternut Cream Soup

It is officially cozy season, and I love to make soup! A soup I make every autumn is butternut bisque. This is a simpler version of this soup that I found, and it was just as popular as the bisque.

Butternut Cream Soup

Serves:6

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

6 cups butternut squash, peeled and cut into cubes

1/4 teaspoon onion powder

2 teaspoons cinnamon

2 cups chicken stock

1 1/2 cup heavy cream

Method:

In a large sauce pan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the butternut squash, onion powder, and cinnamon and cook 10 minutes. Add chicken stock and bring to a boil, reduce the heat and cook until squash fork tender, about 20 minutes.

Place all in a blender and puree. Pour puree back into sauce pan over medium heat. Stir in cream and bring to a simmer. Remove from heat once heated through and serve hot.

My bread here is a cranberry-cinnamon skillet biscuit with orange butter. 

Cranberry-Cinnamon Skillet Biscuit

Yield 8

Ingredients:

2 cups self-rising flour

1/2 cup dried cranberries

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 tablespoons sugar

1 1/2 cup heavy cream

Method:

Preheat oven to 500°F. Prepare a well seasoned cast iron skillet, or line baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper or a silicon baking mat. 

Mix the flour, cinnamon, cranberries, and sugar till well incorporated. Stir in heavy cream until the dough just comes together, it will be a sticky dough. 

Knead dough gently and roll out onto a floured surface with a rolling pin until 1/2-inch thickness. Right at this stage I shape the dough to the size of my cast iron skillet and place the dough in it and score it with a dough cutter before baking. If cutting into rounds, use a 2-inch biscuit cutter and place on your baking sheet.

Bake 10-12 minutes. 

Serve hot with orange butter.

Orange Butter

Yield: approximately 1/4 cup 

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons butter, softened or room temperature

2 1/2 teaspoon orange marmalade

2 teaspoons honey

Mix all and chill in refrigerator one hour. Serve on hot biscuits.

Butternut cream soup adapted from The Unofficial Poldark Cookbook.

Enjoy! 

In Victory,

Sherry