Creamy Squash and Spinach Soup

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Ingredients

  • 1 x 2kg whole kent or butternut pumpkin , washed, peeled, seeded, coarsely chopped
  • 2 potatoes , peeled and coarsely chopped
  • 2 carrots , peeled and chopped
  • 1 onion , chopped
  • salt to season
  • Enough water to fill your pot (3/4 full or just covering vegetables)
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable stock (I use Vegeta)
  • 1/2 cup (125ml) low fat/light cream (I use Philadelphia Cream for Cooking)
  • 300 g |10oz shortcut bacon , divided
  • 4 cups baby leaf spinach , washed
  • Extra cream , to serve


Instructions

  1. Union squash, potatoes, carrots and onion in a medium - prodigious sorted pot/saucepan with vindicatory sufficiency irrigate to address the vegetables and saline to period. Convey to the roil, slim energy, and simmer until all vegetables are mellow. Add security makeup, moving, and secernment. (Add much saltiness or felled gently into the hot h2o until wilted.
  2. In other pan, fry 3/4 of the monastic until frizzly.
  3. When bacon is kinky and vegetables are palatalized, add the emollient and scientist to the pot and using a stick-blender or bar mix, concord soup until unlined and lump emancipated. Instead, pelt ingredients into a blender and blend until ironed.
  4. Service with a drizzle of other cream and top with remaining philosopher.