Sunshine Summer Squash Soup
From tnjazmyn 16 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 8
This soup is wonderful either hot or cold. I prefer it hot with melted cheese and croutons but is also great on a hot summer day served chilled. Either Yellow Squash or a lovely blend of yellow and zucchini work very well with this dish, just depends on what floweth over in your garden!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter shopping list
- 2 Tbsp olive oil or grapeseed oil shopping list
- 1 Large onion, minced shopping list
- 2 garlic cloves, minced shopping list
- 3 lbs. squash, thinly sliced shopping list
- 4 cups chicken stock shopping list
- 1 cup Half and Half shopping list
- 1 1/2 tsp salt shopping list
- 1 tsp white pepper shopping list
- Your favorite cheese, shredded - I sometimes use Cheddar and/or Parmesan (optional) for topping shopping list
- croutons (optional ) for topping shopping list
- Chopped chives or parsley (optional) for topping shopping list
- bacon Crumbles (optional) for topping shopping list
How to make it
- Heat butter and oil in large pan over medium-high heat.
- Add onion and garlic.
- Saute until translucent and soft.
- Add squash and chicken stock. Simmer until tender.
- Transfer to processor in batches, processing until smooth, adding Half and Half while you are processing.
- Stir in salt and pepper.
- Soup should be fairly thick. You may add more half and half if too thick.
- Add toppings, or serve as is!
- Hot or Cold
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This sounds very comforting! I love squash in anything. I remember my mother was baking some butternut squash and forgot to poke some holes in them......BLAM! All over the oven. What a mess!!
jett2whit
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comfort soup all the way .........nice one teresa
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I love squash and mine is almost ready to pick. Thanks for sharing.
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