Winter has arrived in Cape Town! You may remember from my previous posts that I have been preparing for our winter here with some lovely stews and pies. The weather has finally cooled all the way down to proper winter now, and to celebrate, I am sharing my most loved and cherished Asian Inspired Butternut Soup
Every winter I make this recipe, and I have always thought it was not quite there yet. I learnt an amazing trick from Jamie Oliver this year, and that is to roast your butternut whole. I utilised this in my recipe to give the soup a hearty, really robust flavour. That's the beauty of cooking - recipes can evolve with time. I am finally 100% happy with this recipe, and ready to share it with the world.
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I first made this recipe back in 2013, when my husband and I had a small restaurant. Back then, it was a traditional butternut soup, with quite run of the mill flavours like oreganum, basil and cream. It was then that I invented my signature Asian Coleslaw, which has loads of interesting flavours like cumin, Chinese five spice and curry powder. Whilst experimenting with these flavours, I fell in love with the different Asian cuisines, namely Thai and Indian. You may think it sounds strange to mix these two styles of food, but certain elements work really well together.
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One day, I was making this soup, and realised I had run out of cream. The only similar ingredient I had was coconut milk. At the time I was going through a heavy curry addiction, and decided to experiment a little. And so, my Asian Butternut Soup was born. Voila!
- A natural antioxidant
- One whole butternut contains more 335% of your daily vitamin A intake, which means butternuts are great for your eyes!
- Butternut is one of the longest keeping vegetables. Can last up to three months when stored correctly
- Butternuts originate in South America, and were first eaten around 5000 BC
- Butternuts are great for keeping your blood pressure down
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INGREDIENTS
- 4 large butternut
- 2 large onions
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 t ground ginger
- 1 bunch of coriander, chopped finely
- 1 t cumin
- 1 T chili
- 1 T mild curry powder (garam masala if possible)
- 1 t cinnamon
- 1 packet of white onion soup powder
- 1 l water
- 1 400ml coconut milk
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METHOD
Heat your oven to 180'C/350'F. On a baking tray, lay some baking paper, and place the four whole butternut on the tray. Yes, whole! This is probably my favourite way to prepare butternut - so simple and the flavour is outrageous.
Leave them baking for about an hour. You will see the butternut start to exude some caramelly liquid, and become soft. Once this happens, ensure they are cooked by checking with a skewer, and set aside to cool
In the mean time, add the chopped onion, garlic and spices to a pan, and cook until the onion is translucent and soft.
Once the butternut is cooled, remove the skin (it should peel off relatively easily) and scoop the flesh into a bowl. Take care to discard any seeds and fibres from the centre of the butternut.
Add the butternut along with the onion mixture into a blender, and blitz until smooth and pureed. It will have a texture almost like baby food.
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To get it extra smooth, you can push the puree through a sieve. I recommend doing this as you don't want to have any seeds in the soup.
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Add the puree to a large pot, and bring to a medium heat. Once the puree has been cooking for a while, approximately twenty minutes, mix the packet of onion soup powder with the water. Add this to the butternut mixture and stir in until properly combined. Add the can of coconut milk, and cook for another half an hour or so.
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Garnish with coriander and a few drops of coconut cream, and serve with a nice big chunk of fresh bread.
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I absolutely love this recipe, and the smell always reminds me of winter. Let me know in the comments if you make it, and how it turns out for you.
Lots of love,
@princessmewmew
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This is literally the best comment I have ever received! Thank you so much, I loved it!!
Heh, glad u enjoyed it princess. Thatโs adsactly what we wanted ;)
Love it!
OMG. Comment of forever! Bravo Steembirds.
Butternut is load with many nutrients like vitamin A, magnesium, potassium and fibers. I heard first time about this recipe looking delicious in the pictures.
Wow, it looks like the soup is so good @adsactly, I love to cook, because I do not have any activities during the day, so I often help my mom at home to cook. Although sometimes my dishes do not get satisfactory results (less delicious). But I always study with my mother to cook. But I have never seen this soup from before, maybe in the country I live, there is no soup like this, or maybe a little different from your recipe.
But I am very happy to see you have shared this soup recipe, and this is a new challenge for me, and I will surprise my mom with this recipe you share. I will try to cook this soup. Then I will show it to my mother. Hopefully this time my cooking will get good results, so it can be a big surprise for my mother. I think your soup recipe, will be recognized by many people. Thanks for sharing @adsactly, this is very useful for all of us....
that's awesome! I hope it turns out okay for you. Please let me know how it goes!
Thank you very much @princessmewmew, I hope you have a wonderful day for all the good you have done...
as soon as I start reading your recipes, I know in advance that it will be very tasty :) This is a guarantee of quality, and most importantly it is an unusual and varied recipes for delicious dishes ..
It is unusual for me to read about the winter that has come to you. Summer came to us and now it's very warm. I also like what you combine and "conjure" with their dishes. That is, you add some changes that make your dishes special and unique.
This dish combines the ingredients that I can purchase. This makes me happy. But the main component is hard work. The dish is not difficult to prepare, but it looks great. I must do this in the future. Great recipe. Thank you for sharing :)
thanks so much, @frank1in :) yes, i am in the southern hemisphere so it's winter now!
That's the best part about cooking - the changes are what makes a dish personal.
Thanks again :) xx
Good afternoon @princessmewmew friend writer of the beautiful community of @adsactly. You like everyone else have left me captivated, in your case with this recipe.
I must admit that it looks delicious, it makes me remember when my grandmother cooks her soups for me, that grandmother's seasoning is unbeatable, who supports me?
I am very captivated by the fact that you use the walnut to add it to the soup, since as you said this one gives it a more robust flavor, in fact I will try it with my mother, since I am very captivated by this idea.
Although I realized that you take advantage of the winter to enjoy this recipe, maybe you do it in other times of the year, but I feel that it is more special for you at this time of the year, the feeling must be great (although maybe you do not live it even because I live in Venice and the seasons are not noticeable almost).
The cold of winter being fought by a tasty hot soup....
Finally I would like to try this recipe made by you and your dear friend husband!!
I send you many greetings and hugs from Venezuela, thanks for the good content to you @princessmewmew and the rest of the writers of the @adsactly community, always very attentive to its content!!
thanks so much. I used butternut, not walnut :)
Thank you for your lovely comment
Damn I'm hungry .. Thanks for the pictures
Good for you .. I really liked the place
Well done great post..
Damn I'm hungry .. Thanks for the pictures
Good for you .. I really liked the place
Well done great post..
looking good thanks for sharing
We absolutely love soup and squash is one of our favs. We have made many butternut squash soups but this looks so much better than what we have had. Does it have a little bite to it? I am a big fan of having it be a little spicy. We are huge coconut oil and cream fans so that would be the icing on the cake. I will be making this recipe for sure.
yes, it's a little spicy, depending on the curry powder and chilli flakes used. it's like a really good thai curry soup, almost x
Wow. Wow. Wow.
What a great sounding recipe. I think I'll have to try it next fall when I start making Chili and such. I love baking the squash whole...
Thanks for a terrific recipe. And the photographs are top shelf also.
thanks so much, Tom! I'm learning every time I take photos.
Baking the squash whole is key. It literally changes the whole recipe!
oh maaaan I will try to make this!
Like this that lok is good tip
Hmm, this recipe looks good. I love soup and it would be perfect to warm one up after being out doors in the cold.
That looks so good especially after only been eating European food now for more than 10 days !!! TT
hehe, is it tiring? Glad you enjoyed it!
What a delicious soup! I love butternut and also prepare it very often in winter. However we are lucky now and we are closely getting to summer in Europe :)
thank you! I am so pleased that it is winter here. Summer is very hot and I was just longing for a change
That's a healthy and delicious food, I appreciate your recipe. Personally I love eating this food.
Thanks for sharing this post my friend... best of luck.
thank you so much for your great comment
Most welcome my dear friend....
Looks awesome again! Best wishes from Germany <3
Great soup , coconut and butternut squash is a winner , What also goes very well with coconut is lemon ( Thai inspired ) try adding some lemon grass or kaffir leaves( lime leaves ) or just squeeze of lime , and cayenne toasted pumpkin seeds for something to chew on :-)
Definitely the food looks great.
Looks like soo yammi.... wanna eat those foods... :)
your posts always give me inspiration thanks you @adsactly.
Looks very delicious and mouth-watering soup๐ฅ๐
Honestly, it is my first time to hear that butternut and also my first time to see a butternut. It looks to me and eggplant ๐... haha. But I guess it has a butter taste like. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe @princessmewmew. I wonder if there is a butternut here in the Philippines๐ต๐ญ I really wanna try that soup ๐ข Imagine when you have a fever but when you started to smell the aroma of that soup. Hahaha. Thank you so much @princessmewmew and @adsactly.
Wow, your food looking very tasty and yammy.I also love to soup.Looks like it is a good recipe that's a healthy and delicious food,Thanks for sharing this post sir @ADsactly
it is lovely and healthy, you are so right!
That looks so so good tip!
nice food! makes me hungry, more so it is healthy!
The soup look nice. But hope it's very tasty?
it is indeed. Thanks for taking the time to comment
Good tips. You try to help people. Upvoted and resteemed.......
Wow! I would have loved to make this myself, but unfortunately there are some ingredients i can't find here in Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ. But from you constructive analysis about how you made it, i am famished already, can i order some @adsactly.
thanks so much! which ingredients will you not be able to find? I'm sure I can suggest some subs
Looks delicious
Wow it's great Thanx for sharing
Looks tasty :) I'm gonna try it! :D
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Waaaoooooo
@adsactly se ve de un rico mundial.
Que tal si se le agrega queso blanco en daditos.
Bueno... no es que quiera modificar tu receta; pero creo que no le caerรญa nada mal.
Saludos y veremos si la crema del Domingo es Asian Butternut Soup.
Saludos y Gracias por deleitarme.
Love this, will like to try it.....thanks for adding to my meal
We dont have butternuts here, but looks nice and healthy. I love soups mostly in winter and for you guys winter is starting there :) For us summer is starting !
The recipe is quite provocative, it's like I could feel the aroma, I love to invent a little in the kitchen and of the great inventions we certainly have the best results, maybe not, but it may be something that can be modified, in our homes, we don't always have all the ingredients, so I give each recipe a personal and attractive touch, your curry addiction made you win this time! I'm a soup fanatic and this one looks delicious, thank you very much for the tips.
Sorry for my mistakes in English, I use a translator
Wow! Its may be Coriander leaf? I love it very much!
In my country ... this fruit is called eggplant
This soup looks so delicious.
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe with us, it looks pretty easy to make.
I'll definitely have to give a try.
i am fasting today n this food makes me hungry
@adsactly I love cooking, we share something in common I love asian food and use coconut milk in many dishes and I follow jaimie Oliver too I love his farm he is a great chef and i am discovering you are too, I will make this soup. Here I leave you my post Sopa de auyama,
Cream Auyama
ladyfont (41) in food โข 4 months ago
I invented this pumpkin cream looking for a way to do something different and liked it a lot, I hope you do it and enjoy it
SPECIAL CREAM OF AUYAMA
1 kilo of auyama that has good orange color and that is not fibrous, remove seeds and shell
The milk of a coconut (1 liter)
1 teaspoon freshly ground cumin
1 piece of spicy jalapeรฑo (to taste)
1 chopped white onion
1 yellow potato
A sprig of cilantro (to taste)
Salt to taste
preparation:
Fry the onion in 2 tablespoons of oil without letting it burn, add all the other ingredients except the cilantro and cook until it softens. Process and serve in small cups by putting a tablespoon of Parmesan cheese in the background, garnish with sprigs of coriander. If you can not eat hot pepper you can suppress it but in reality this gives it a special touch. Bon Appetite.
Oh wow This looks super yummy! I love butternut soups! OK I am going to make this tomorrow and report back with how it turned out :)
This asian food 1st time i came to know. its just like haleem?
Wow brilliant post about the asian butter nut soup. It is tasty , rich delicate and also good for health. This is a pretty long and informative article which you have. Really loved the post. Good explaination of ingredients and the way the recipe evolved.
Actually I find Malaysian food is generally a mix of Thai and Indian food because of it's close proximity to Thailand and it's long history of spice trade with India which influenced it's food. So generally not weird when you mix them together lol.
I've never baked a whole butternut squash in the oven before... will have to try!
For a moment, it felt strange reading your first sentence about winter arriving to Cape Town... ;-)
This looks very delicious! I'll have to try make this. Can you please tell me what brand of white onion soup powder packet do you use? Thanks!
I just used Knorr! Any will do, I'm sure
Cool, Iโll try it! Thanks!
Awesome can't wait to try the recipe! I love butternut squash soup.
Beautiful, healthy and tasty. Want to try it really now
did you make that on your own