{"id":3374,"date":"2012-10-31T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2015-07-13T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T10:20:14","slug":"squash-soup-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/squash-soup-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prince of Squash – Soup Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Crown<\/a>

Winter squash harvest<\/p><\/div>\n

This week we\u00a0carved five squash\/pumpkins<\/a> to celebrate Hallowe’en – one of which was one of my precious Crown Prince<\/a>\u00a0squash varieties.<\/p>\n

Grown this year from seed<\/a>, I’ve watched three grow and develop and there’s a part of me that didn’t want to slice and bake the tasty fruit. Although the skin is a grey\/blue, the flesh inside is a rich orange in colour and once roasted is one of the tastiest squash we’ve ever had the pleasure of eating. It develops a\u00a0deliciously\u00a0sweet chestnut flavour and when made into a soup is simply\u00a0divine. As we were scooping out the flesh the scent of melons filled the kitchen, reminding us of the Crown Princes’ relationship<\/a> with the rest the Cucurbita family.<\/p>\n

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Crown Prince Squash<\/p><\/div>\n

If you’ve yet to grow a Crown Prince, I heartily recommend you try it next year as they’re easy to grow (instructions here<\/a>) and are great for winter storage. If you haven’t grown them, try sourcing them in a farmers market – I bought my first one last year from a local organic farm gate.<\/p>\n

This is my third squash or\u00a0pumpkin soup<\/a>\u00a0recipe on the blog and the tastiest yet. The reason I keep posting them isn’t for their amazing flavour – pumpkin can be quite bland on its own, more that I’m hoping it’ll encourage you to use the flesh!<\/p>\n

In my previous life before children, I’d scoop out the seeds and flesh before carving pumpkins and composting them. That was it. I was too scared to try cooking them and didn’t have a clue what to do with the flesh. In fact I have a vague recollection of thinking what a waste of food, there must be something I could make with it, but it wasn’t until I became a budget conscious mum and starting cooking more than mushroom curries that I found out what to do with it.<\/p>\n

Given that there’s only so much squash soup a family can make, this year we’ll also be making pumpkin muffins based on the courgette cake<\/a> recipe and will be roasting some of the seeds. I spotted this recipe for\u00a0cocoa roasted pumpkin seeds<\/a>\u00a0on twitter from the Food to Glow blog and will be giving it a go.<\/p>\n

Crown Prince Squash Recipe<\/h2>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diced flesh from a Crown Prince squash
\n2 medium potatoes, diced
\n1 onion, chopped
\n2 cloves garlic, chopped
\n1.5 ltrs vegetable stock
\n25g butter
\nLots of finely grated nutmeg to taste
\nfreshly ground salt & pepper
\n150 ml milk<\/p>\n

Carefully cut the top from the squash and scoop out the seeds and fibrous contents. You can’t save and plant the seeds from a squash such as Crown Prince as it’s an F1 variety (meaning that whatever you grow wont be like its parent). Rinse and place the seeds to one side so that you can make the cocoa roasted snack when the oven’s hot. Using a spoon, scrape out as much flesh from the squash as you can without damaging the outer shell. Place the empty shell to one side ready for carving. Spread out the pumpkin flesh on a roasting tray and bake in a pre-heated oven at 175\u00baC for about an hour.<\/p>\n

Once roasted, melt the butter and cook the onion gently for 5 minutes in a covered saucepan, without colouring.\u00a0 Add the potato, roasted squash and vegetable stock.\u00a0 Cover, bring to the boil and simmer gently for about 20 mins until the vegetables are tender.\u00a0 Cool a little, then pur\u00e9e in a liquidiser.\u00a0 Return to a clean saucepan and stir in the milk, grated nutmeg and salt and pepper to taste.<\/p>\n

Pour the soup into the empty shell for serving if you’re not planning on carving it.<\/p>\n

Do you have any favourite squash recipes or links you’d like to share?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Crown Prince Squash<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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