Penulis (Sunshine Nut Co. generously provided me amongst the cashew production for this postal service. As ever, all opinions are my own! Thank y'all then so much for reading as well as supporting the brands that I dear!)
My love for this soup knows no bounds. I tin’t fifty-fifty get to explain how creamy and delicious it is! Omg. The cashews seriously make this the silkiest bowl of sky. The creaminess is on another level!
We’re lastly getting into soup flavor in my neck of the woods. It was brutally common cold the mean solar day I made this together with it was the near comforting thing I could peradventure think of. It’sec and then luxuriously creamy I tin can’t fifty-fifty stand up it!
I used Sunshine Nut Co.’s spark of spices cashews inward the soup which helped to make it super creamy without having to add together whatsoever milk or cream. They have the nicest touch of spice that add a trivial flake of rut to this soup without it being besides spicy. So delicious.
I beloved their nuts because they are insanely delicious, merely also because Sunshine Nut Co. is committed to bringing lasting economical transformation to some of the poorest countries in the world. They grow, roast and packaging their cashews inwards Mozambique, as well as they utilize individuals who were abandoned or orphaned inwards their youth at their roasting manufactory. They too donate ninety% of their distributed profits back into community programs.
Since their render chain is so simplified, they are able to go from crush to parcel in only two-3 weeks, which is unheard of! I genuinely can taste they difference. They are SO fresh as well as delish!
And they’re actually having an awesome sale correct directly..all of their nuts are l% off too you tin shop for them hither!
Not exclusively did I add together the cashews into the soup, I pose them on summit! Because I always gotta take crush. I added bacon likewise, because it makes everything ameliorate. And crispy fried brussels that are charrrrred to perfection. Who else loves their veggies crispy? Especially brussels. They go and then caramelly too wonderful!
The fifty-fifty ameliorate role, is that I cooked the brussels in the leftover bacon fat. Best. conclusion. ever.
You could absolutely serve this equally a trivial starter on Thanksgiving. And you should. People volition be shocked when y'all order them in that location’sec no cream or milk inwards it! I’one thousand adding cashews to all of my creamy soups from straight off on. Why haven’t I been doing this all along?!
This soup is suuuuper creamy together with thick, so if you lot like thinner, more than broth-y soups, feel gratis to add more than than what I called for until your desired consistency is reached.
As long equally yous’ve got the cashews, crispy brussels, in addition to bacon, nosotros’re expert!
It’sec seriously a hug inwards a bowl!
Creamy Butternut Squash Pumpkin Cashew Soup with Crispy Brussels Sprouts together with Bacon
This butternut mash and pumpkin soup is made "creamy" amongst but cashews, as well as no cream or milk! It's topped with brussels together with bacon for extra season!
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time thirty minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 4
Ingredients
i
tablespoon
olive crude oil
1
medium
sweet onion, chopped
two
cloves
garlic, finely chopped
3 ane/2
cups
cubed butternut crush
ane/four
teaspoon
table salt
ane/iv
teaspoon
pepper
one
teaspoon
dried thyme
ane
teaspoon
paprika
i/two
teaspoon
chili pulverisation
i
quart (four cups)
depression-sodium chicken broth
i
cup
pumpkin purée
iii/iv
cup
Sunshine Nut Co.'s "Spark of Spices" cashews, summation extra chopped cashews for topping
iii
cups
brussels sprouts, halved
6
slices
thick cut bacon, chopped
Instructions
Heat a large soup pot or dutch oven over medium-high oestrus together with add together olive crude oil. Add onion as well as garlic and sauté for iii-iv minutes or until translucent as well as starting to go caramelized. Add the butternut mash, common salt, pepper, thyme, paprika, and chili powder, in addition to make for another three-iv minutes, stirring ofttimes.
Add the chicken broth, pumpkin, in addition to cashews in addition to take to a boil. Once boiling, trim down to medium to medium-high estrus as well as simmer for 20 minutes or until crush is rattling tender and is starting to fall apart.
While the soup is simmering, heat a skillet over medium-high rut and add together the bacon. Cook for six-7 minutes or until crispy in addition to gilded. Let the bacon drain on newspaper towels. Pour out virtually of the bacon fat except for virtually 2 tablespoons. Add the brussels too adapt them and then they are cutting side downward. Season alongside a pair pinches of table salt. Cook for 5-6 minutes (don't touch them!) until they are crispy too caramelized. Remove from heat.
Once soup is finished cooking, transfer to a blender too blend until creamy as well as shine. Be real careful when blending hot liquids. They expand from the steam! Alternately, you lot tin can function an immersion blender, merely I detect that the ultimate creaminess is achieved inward the blender!
To serve the soup, top amongst crispy brussels, bacon, as well as a sprinkle of the chopped cashews.
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