Name: Sweet Mama Squash Soup
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: Fried Ginger Threads; ¼ cup toasted sliced almonds; whole coriander leaves; 3 pounds hard-skinned yellow squash, such as Sweet Mama, Perfection, or Delicata; 1 small yellow onion, thinly sliced; 1 tablespoon corn or peanut oil; 1 thumbnail-size piece cassia or cinnamon bark; 1½ teaspoons finely minced garlic; 1 tablespoon finely minced fresh ginger; 1 whole star anise, broken into 8 points; Sugar; 10 cups China Moon Double Stock or Vegetable Infusion; Kosher salt; Freshly ground pepper

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

China Moon Cookbook

By Barbara Tropp

Published 1992

About

The name of this soup is as beguiling as its taste. The brainchild of André Fecteau, one of China Moon’s more colorful sous-chefs (for a sideline, he manages a rock group), it is a fabulously smooth and velvety soup with a vibrant gold-orange hue. Very un-Chinese in its basic ingredient, this is nonetheless a soup that goes wonderfully well with many of our foods.

Sweet Mama is a variety of winter squash that tastes to my tongue like