Buttery Butternut Beet Purée Soup and more savory yumminess
I’m such a huge fan of purée soups and sides. Since my time in France I have dreamed of their beautiful culture and connection with food… in this case Soup du Jour (Soup of the day) - meaning whatever you have that’s good goes in the pot! This one is the BBB BOMB! I was cooking up some beets so on a whim I threw one in this butternut squash purée soup and it turned into the most Ah-mazing color!! It looks tomato-ey in the picture - but it is the color Blaze Fiesta… I just made that up but seriously beautiful color!
Recipes in this cook-up:
Butternut Beet Purée
Sautéed Bacon and Onion Beet greens
Slow Cooker Chicken w/ mushrooms in wine
Buttery Butternut Beet Purée Soup
Buttery Butternut Beet Purée Soup
Ingredients:
1 large butternut squash; baked, peeled and seeded
1 medium onion; chunk chopped
1 small beet; chunked
1 medium apple; chunked
1 clove garlic; smashed
butter/or ghee
1 t curry (to taste)
salt and pepper
3-4 cups stock to desired texture (chicken or vegetable)
To make: In a medium stock pot sautée onion, apple, beet and garlic in butter or ghee till soft, add curry, salt and pepper,
Add Butternut squash and stock to pot and blend with an immersion blender (this is an important tool for making purées). If you don’t have an immersion blender, you will have to wait until your ingredients cool down so you can blend them in a blender. Do not try to blend them in an upright blender when they are hot!
Blend until you have a smooth texture.
Serve with seedy crackers or my favorite when I am being fancy is to float little toasted baguette slices topped with goat cheese/chopped raisins/cranberries and confit garlic on top.
Sautéed Bacon and Onion Beet greens
1/2 pound sliced bacon (no nitrates/nitrites)cut in small 1/2”
1 small onion; chopped small
1 clove garlic; smashed
1 t. turmeric or curry
Pepper
1 -2 bunches of well washed beet greens (adjust recipe to amount you have): rough chopped
To make: Sautée bacon, onion until nicely soft add garlic and turmeric or curry. When aromatic add greens. Cook these together. I normally don’t need to add salt because of the bacon, but you may need to adjust for yourself.
Plop this cold or hot on top of a beautiful bed of greens for a savory twist on your lunch salad!
Slow Cooker Chicken and Mushrooms with wine
Chicken thighs get more tender the longer you cook them (unlike chicken breasts) so they are perfect to throw in the slow cooker.
8 (or however many) boneless chicken thighs
4 garlic cloves; smashed
1 package of fresh mushrooms whatever kind you like; cleaned and sliced
3/4 c. white wine whatever kind you have/like.
To make: Put all the above ingredients in your slow cooker and cook on low 6-8 hours or on med/high 3-4 hours.
