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Butternut Soup with Pears and Apples

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  • Brief Description

    Slightly sweet soup made with butternut squash, apples and pears, is also great when topped with plain low-fat yogurt.

  • Main Ingredient

    squash

  • Category:  Soups

  • Cuisine:  American

  • Prep Time:  40 min(s)

  • Cook Time:  45 min(s)

  • Recipe Type:  Public

  • Source:

    Cooking Light March 2000

  • Tags:

    Vegetarian

  • Notes:

    Serving size 1 cup. Calories 117, Fat 2.2g, Protein 1.2g, Carb 25.5g, Fiber 2.3g, Chol 4mg, Iron 0.8mg, Sodium 402mg, Calc 48mg.

  • Posted By:  gardner.marilyn

  • Posted On:  Dec 31, 2019

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Number of Servings:

Ingredients:

  1. 1 tablespoons - butter or stick margarine
  2. 1 cups - chopped onion
  3. 3/4 cups - chopped celery
  4. 4 cups - cubed peeled butternut squash (about 1-1/4 pounds)
  5. 1 3/4 cups - water
  6. 1 cups - chopped peeled Braeburn or other cooking apple
  7. 1 cups - chopped peeled Anjou pear
  8. 1/2 cups - apple juice
  9. 1/4 teaspoons - salt
  10. 1/8 teaspoons - black pepper
  11. 1 cans - 14.5 oz. vegetable broth
  12. 1 - bay leaf
  13. 3 tablespoons - maple syrup

Directions:

Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add chopped onion and celery, and sauté 4 minutes or until tender. Add squash and next 8 ingredients (squash through bay leaf), and bring to a boil.

Partially cover, reduce heat, and simmer 30 minutes or until tender. Discard bay leaf.

Place half of squash mixture in a blender or food processor and process until smooth. Pour pureed mixture into a bowl. Repeat procedure with remaining squash mixture. Return pureed mixture to pan and stir in syrup.

Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes or until thoroughly heated.


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