Dinner · 35 min · Amounts not specified
Squash coconut soup
Roast squash if you can. Blend.
The sheet · 4 bowls · 35 min
easyWhy tonight. Roast squash if you can. Blend.
What it needs
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- squash
- coconut milk
- onion
- ginger
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: lime.
Method
- Roast the squash rather than boiling it. Roasted squash makes a soup with depth; boiled squash makes a soup with volume.
- Onion and a lot of ginger softened in the pot, then the roasted squash and just enough stock to blend.
- Blend completely smooth, then coconut milk off the heat.
- Lime and salt at the end, and more lime than seems right. Sweet squash without acid reads as baby food.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- squash
- Sweet, starchy and full of water, which is why roasting beats boiling every time.
- coconut milk
- Fat that carries chili and spice further than water can, with a sweetness underneath.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- ginger
- Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.
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