Now that the weather is turning chilly and sometimes downright cold (in the 30s the other morning – yikes!), we’re really craving soup. Unfortunately, most my recipes have some sort of food, or multiple foods, that aren’t permitted on the Paleo diet. The other day my friend, Bridget, shared a delicious curry butternut squash soup she got years ago from a friend who’s from South Africa. When she told me how to make it I realized it’d be pretty easy to make Paleo-friendly. So here’s what we ate this past weekend:
Here’s what you’ll need: a butternut squash (duh!), granny smith apple, onion, orange (only the zest and juice), curry powder, nutmeg, chicken stock, coconut milk, salt, and pepper.
Peel the squash with a vegetable peeler.
Cut it in pieces. The top is solid…
The bottom has seeds in it.
Scoop out the seeds and discard (or roast them like pumpkin seeds), then dice the squash flesh. While you have your knife out, dice up the (cored and peeled) Granny Smith apple and the onion.
I threw my onions in my bowl and then realized I needed them separate. Silly me. I had to dig them all out to saute them. Don’t make the same mistake as me.
I threw the salt and pepper in with the onions cause that’s how I roll. You can wait til later if you wish. After the onions are nice and tender add the apple, squash, chicken stock, orange zest and juice, 3 tsp curry powder, and pinch of nutmeg.
Bring it to a boil, then turn heat down to simmer and let the ingredients cook until fork tender.
In batches if necessary, puree the soup until smooth.
Pour back into the stockpot and add a can of coconut milk. Warm through then serve.
Paleo-Friendly Recipe:
1 onion, chopped
5 cups butternut squash, diced
1 Granny Smith apple, cored, peeled and diced
the zest and juice of 1 orange
1-2 tsp curry powder
pinch of nutmeg
4 cups chicken stock
2 cups (or one whole can) of coconut milk
salt and pepper to taste
In case you don’t care for coconut or aren’t on the Paleo diet, here’s the original recipe:
2 onion, chopped
2 cups butternut squash, diced
1 Granny Smith apple, cored, peeled and diced
the zest and juice of 1 orange
3 tsp flour
1-2 tsp curry powder
pinch of nutmeg
3 cups chicken stock
1.5 cups (or one whole can) of milk
salt and pepper, pinch of sugar
(c) 2016 Leighann Marquiss
Comments (8)
We love butternut squash soup! Great choice!
Yummy
Hey!
I’m cooking this right now in far away germany.
Little tricky because we don’t use cups. We’ve milliliter and gram in our recipes. But I’ve figured it out. Also because of the second photo, to see the size of the butternut pumpkin and other ingredients for comparison.
Almost finished! Late dinner though, around 7:30 pm here.
Kind regards
Nicole
Nicole – Very fun that you are making this for dinner! My husband’s family is from Germany – Schwerin and Dresden. The butternut squash in the picture is very large!! I only used about half of it and then roasted up the rest of it for another meal by drizzling with a little olive oil and sprinkling on a little salt and pepper. Hope your meal is yummy!
Hey Leighann,
I’ve been all alone that saturday evening and I enjoyed the soup, it was yummy for my taste. I used all of the diced butternut squash. Maybe my soup was then a little more “viscous”? I think it was just right.
Me and my parents ate it at sunday for dinner too. And again on monday – it was my mothers birthday and we served it for dinner for our guests besides chicken soup and sandwiches. It was only a little leftover from saturday and so it was already the second preparation of the soup, this time with a Hokkaido squash/pumpkin but apart from that the same ingredients. The last days have been absolutely soup days, suitable for autumn.
I live in lower saxony between the towns Oldenburg and Osnabrück. Around 300 kilometres away from Schwerin and 500 km away from Dresden. I’ve read that germans are part of the “top US Ancestries” but USA is a big melting pot. Once I did have a classmate whose father was from USA. So he was German/American Indian/African American/Korean and more, I forgot the rest he mentioned. I only thought wow, amazing. I’m just German, since generations as far as I know. Only Roman Catholic farmers in my ancestry. It was even unimaginable to marry a Protestant. Weird huh? Fortunately these days are gone now.
Ooops, I wrote quite much. Just happens when I start writting. I hope you don’t mind.
Kind regards
Nicole
Don’t mind at all…. it is lovely getting to know more about my readers since I share so much with them. 🙂
May I take your pictures to add it to the recipe?
I’m just translating it to german for my mothers colleague and for one of my aunts.
It’s better with pics.
As long as you aren’t selling it, yes, that would be fine.