More Than Our Story

Roasted Vegetable Soup

Spiced, roasted vegetables, ready to blend.

Total Time: 20 to 90 Minutes

Serves: 4

Vegetarian with Vegan Options

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Inspiration

An absolute beauty! This delicious, spicy, plant-based soup will warm your soul from the inside and scorch your tongue on the outside.

Ingredients

  • 2 butternut squash, peeled, halved, seeds removed
  • 1-2 red onions, peeld, cut into quarters
  • 1 shallot, peeled, halved
  • 1-2 cups, Homemade Applesauce, or 1-2 apples, cored, quartered
  • Handful, cherry tomatoes
  • ⅓ cup of pumpkin seeds, raw or toasted
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • Thai basil, handful
  • Ras el-hanout (I use 2-3 tablespoons for rich, deep flavors)
  • Olive oil (I use Baklouti Green Chili Olive Oil for an extra kick)
  • Pepper Pot, Caribbean habanero hot sauce to taste
  • Vegetable stock, 1-2 900ml packages

TIME SAVER:
If using a Vitamix - you can leave the peels on the butternut squash when roasting and blending.

Preparation

  1. Preheat the oven to 425°F.
  2. Combine vegetables in a glass baking dish, then add apples or applesauce, and pepperpot.
  3. Pour oil over ingredients and sprinkle with salt, pepper, pumpkin seeds, and ras el-hanout.
  4. Roast in the oven until everything is cooked through.
  5. Transfer the contents to a blender in batches, adding stock and blending until smooth and desired consistency is reached.
  6. Transfer to pot to rewarm and combine batches.
  7. Store or serve immediately, garnishing with optional pumpkin seeds, thai basil, and pepper pot (if you dare).

Tips

  • This soup can be made to your liking – thick and hearty like a puree, or thinner, simply by adding extra stock during the blending process.
  • When storing – it’s best to use any remaining soup stored in the refrigerator with 3-4 days, and any frozen within 6 months.
  • To know exactly what’s going in my soup I like to use homemade applesauce.

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Daniel

Daniel is an extremely curious person, a wealth of random knowledge and facts. Extremely passionate about a vast array of interests ranging from health to history, science to athletics, everything culinary and the list goes on. Trust us, you would want to be on his team for Trivial Pursuit. Daniel is also years into his battle with brain cancer. He experienced a seizure while on a Zoom call at work in late 2020 and quite literally, his life changed within minutes. After his operation he started to talk about his story but had always known it was more than just him. From then, More Than Our Story became a PROJECT that has evolved into the starting point it is today.

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