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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    as a first course or main course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home

By Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini

Published 2025

  • About

When you halve a squash and carve out its seeds, you’re left with a hollow vessel that can absorb flavor as it cooks. For our winter squash soups, we stuff the centers of each squash half with aromatics, then cook the squash cut-side down, trapping the aromatics so they steam and infuse their flavor into the vegetables’ flesh. Every variety makes a slightly different soup, so use this recipe as a starting point and explore what you can find, adjusting the amount of liquid as needed dependin