Butternut Pear Soup

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 onion, sliced
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
• 1 large butternut squash (for easy roasted check pureed squash butternut, acorn any hard winter squash!)
• 1 cup chicken broth or 1 cup vegetable broth
• 1 (15 ounce) can pears in light syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
• 2 cups low-fat milk or 2 cups nonfat milk
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon crystallized ginger, diced
• salt
• sherry wine
• roasted butternut squash seeds
• roasted pumpkin seeds (spicy roasted butternut seeds / pumpkin seeds )

Recipe

• 1 slice butternut into 4 and remove seeds and fiber.
• 2 place in a microwave oven and cook till tender for 10-15 minutes.
• 3 meanwhile saute onions in butter for 10 minutes till golden brown then add brown sugar and spices cook for 5 more minutes over low heat. add broth to deglaze the pot!
• 4 cube squash and if you have a good blender like a vita mix you don`t have to peel just put it in you blender along with all the ingredients and process till smooth.
• 5 in a pot add all ingredients and simmer 10 minutes.
• 6 taste and season with salt and sherry if desired.