Banana Squash Soup Recipes

SPICY BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 200C / 180C fan. Cut the squash into medium cubes and transfer into a large roasting tin with 1-2 tbsp olive oil. Roast for 30 minutes, until soft and golden, turning half way through.
• In a meantime, in a large saucepan heat the remaining olive oil then add the onions, garlic and chillies. After about 10 minutes, add fresh sage leaves and cook covered for another 5 minutes.
• Tip the squash into the saucepan, add hot vegetable stock. Using a stick blender whizz all the ingredients until smooth. Add seasoning, like salt and pepper to taste. Serve with swirls of soya yogurt on top, decorate with fresh sage leaves and chilli flakes. Enjoy!

BANANA SQUASH SOUP WITH SWEET POTATO AND GREEN APPLE

Steps:

• Heat coconut oil and butter together in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil-butter mixture until slightly softened, 1 to 2 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.
• Stir squash, sweet potatoes, and apple into the onion mixture and cook until heated through, about 5 minutes. Pour in chicken broth and bring to a boil; add basil, curry powder, and bay leaf. Reduce heat and simmer until sweet potatoes and apple are softened, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper.
• Puree soup in the pot with a hand blender until smooth.

CITRUS GLAZED BANANA SQUASH

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add squash cubes and water. Cover, and cook for about 5 minutes, or until squash is tender. Stir occasionally, and add more water if necessary to prevent squash from sticking to the pan.
• Reduce heat to low, and stir in the orange juice, apricot preserves, cloves, salt and pepper. Cook and stir uncovered until squash is evenly glazed.

BANANA SQUASH SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to "Roast" at 450 degrees. Slice up all of your onions, mushrooms, and garlic and mix them together. Size of the slice will not matter.
• 2. Slice off the ends of the Banana Squash (or whatever Squash you are more fond of), then cut in half and take out seeds. Place into a deep dish made for high temperature's in the oven. Add 2 cups Vegetable Stock into the bottom of the dish, and place into oven for 15 minutes.
• 3. Rotate deep dish inside oven, and add veggies into the dish, and continue roasting another 15 minutes, or until squash is soft.
• 4. Take food out of oven, (optional: let cool if you would like.. makes it a little easier to handle - if you are not in a time crunch!) and procede to take skin completely off of squash. Throw away skin.
• 5. Take all of the ingredients and puree in a blender or food processor.. slowly adding remaining Vegetable stock until you have arrived at your preferred consistency. Once pureed, put into a Pot on the Stove-top and continue to warm through for 5 minutes (or until warmed all the way). At this time, you may add in salt and pepper if you choose to, but I did not feel the need to as the ingredients do a natural seasoning.
• 6. Enjoy!

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND ROASTED BANANA SOUP (SOUTH AFRICAN)

Steps:

• Sprinkle diced squash with brown sugar, honey and 2 T. butter, roast at 350 oven until caramelized and soft to the touch (about 20 min.), roast unpeeled banana in the same oven at the same time.
• Melt the other 2 T. butter in a large saucepan on medium-low heat, sweat onion, celery and carrot a few minutes; add garlic, curry powder, corinader, nutmeg and cinnamon, cook slowly for a few more minutes.
• Remove banana from its skin, slice and add it and butternt (and it's juices) to saucepan; sitr in coconut milk and broth; simmer until hot; remove from heat, ladle soup into blender in small batches, blend until smooth, adjust consistency with more broth if desired.
• Add cilantro, lime juice, salt and pepper to taste, blend again.
• Return soup to the saucepan and cook to reheat.
• Pour into bowls, garnish with pumpkin seeds,cilantro and a drizzle of pumpkin oil if desired.

BANANA SQUASH SOUP

Steps:

• In a large baking dish bake the banana squash (butternut will work as well), cut sides down, in the middle of a preheated 375° P. oven for 30-45 minutes, or until it is tender when pierced. Discard the seeds and scoop out the flesh with a spoon.
• In a kettle cook the onion in the butter over moderately low heat, stirring, until it is softened, add the flour, and cook the roux, stirring, for 3 minutes. Add the broth, the squash, and the vermouth and simmer the mixture, covered, stirring, for 20 minutes.
• Purée the soup with a hand blender or in batches in a food processor, return it to the kettle, and add the ginger and the nutmeg. Bring the soup to a boil, simmer it, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes, and add salt and pepper to taste.
• Enjoy!

BANANA SQUASH: HOW TO COOK IT

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 375F/190C degrees. 2. The first thing is to wash and scrub the squash and look for any bad spots to cut off. 3. Now, cut the ends off, and slice the banana squash into 3-inch sections. It's much easier to cut it this way because you are not having to handle such a large squash. 4. I used a really good knife and it was easier than I had expected to cut through the skin and flesh. 5. Now you cut the pieces in half. 6. Now scrape the seeds out with a tablespoon or similar tool. Remove the excess stringy meat.7. Now, cut the pieces again, remove the skin on the pieces and cook another day. We left the skin on the ones we are baking today. 8. Remove the skin on the squash you will not bake the day you cut the banana squash. 9. Place the peeled pieces in a bag or container to place in the refrigerator for up to five days. 10. Use a fork, to lightly "scratch" the banana squash meat so you can add butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar (or sweetener of choice). 11. Place a dab of butter, with the desired amount of cinnamon you want on each piece of squash. 12. Add the brown sugar now or after you bake it. You may want to salt and pepper it as well. 13. Now, wrap the separate pieces of banana squash in aluminum foil tightly. 14. Place a piece of aluminum foil on your cookie sheet and spray with vegetable oil. Place the squash on the cookie sheet. 15. Bake for one hour and 15 minutes or until baked through.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP

Steps:

• For the soup: Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add the squash and cook, stirring occasionally, until beginning to brown around the edges, 8 to 10 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for another minute. Pour in the chicken stock, add the thyme and sage and bring to a simmer. Simmer until the squash is very soft, 10 to 15 minutes. Stir in the heavy cream. Puree using an immersion blender. Season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately, or let cool completely, pour into freezer bags, label and freeze.
• For the topping: When read to serve, mix together the cream and sour cream in a small bowl. Drizzle designs over the soup with the mixture.