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French Fridays with Dorie: Béatrix’s Red Kuri Squash Soup

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Yummy, warm bowlful of autumn flavors

This week’s French Friday’s with Dorie challenge is for Béatrix’s Red Kuri Soup.  Elana Amsterdam provides a wonderful description of this lesser-known type of squash on her blog, Elana’s Pantry.  This soup is simple as far as ingredients go, but it’s bit of a workout to cut & clean the squash.  I used a grapefruit spoon with serrated edges to scrape  the seeds and pulp out of the center of the squash.  Less seasoning, this soup only has 4 ingredients in it!  I made it for lunch today and it was rich and satisfying.

Shredded Pepper Cheese for the Toasts

As always, Dorie suggests Bonne Idees to accompany her recipes.  I made toasts from French Bread and shredded cheese.  I floated the smallest pieces on top of the soup and sprinkled the whole thing with Bacon Bits.  We both thought the soup needed the extra flavor.  We didn’t add apple to the soup, but shared a sliced apple while we ate it.  This soup lends itself to all kinds of autumn mix-ins like nuts, bacon, apple, croutons, etc.  It’s a good base.  We enjoyed it for lunch, but it could easily be served in smaller portions as a starter. We always like trying something different but I didn’t love this as much as Butternut Squash Soup.

Enjoy!

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Comments

  2. Christina Conte says

    How pretty! I also am not fond of cleaning and prepping any kind of hard squash! So much work, haha! It’s nice to see your honesty in stating that this isn’t your fondest soup. I have missed a lot of your posts! 🙁