Name: Squash Soup
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon hot pepper sauce; Sour cream (optional); 1 sprig fresh thyme; 4 cups chicken or vegetable stock; 2 cups chopped calabaza, pumpkin, butternut squash, or acorn squash; 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley; Chopped chives (optional); 2 tablespoons canola oil; ½ teaspoon dried oregano; ½ teaspoon coarse salt; 1 small onion, finely chopped; ½ teaspoon dark brown sugar; 1 bay leaf; 3 cloves garlic, crushed; 1 cup coconut milk; 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

Coconut milk, hot pepper, and herbs give this popular soup a little tropical kick. If you have a supply of Green Seasoning on hand, you can use that in place of the collected herbs in this recipe—use about 2 tablespoons.

Calabaza, also called West Indian pumpkin, is now more readily available in your standard supermarket, but if you can’t find it you can substitute butternut squash. Cinderella or “cheese” pumpkins are actually the best substitute b