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17February 28, 2018Cooking by Erica

Curried Sugar Hubbard Squash Soup

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When you’ve got a Sugar Hubbard Squash that needs to get used, you’ve got a lot of squash. Sugar Hubbard is a cross of Blue Hubbard and Sweet Meat, and it’s just fantastic. It roasts well and has a smooth, creamy texture when pureed.

Last time I grew Sugar Hubbard I only got two squash off the plant, but both squash were well over 20 pounds. Sugar Hubbard generally keeps well, but one of mine must have been banged up because it was starting to go soft at the stem. Okay, time to make Curried Sugar Hubbard Soup!

Any pureed soup is more an idea than a recipe. You don’t need to be exact with this. Use whatever winter squash you have. Butternut is great. Use chicken stock or veg stock or plain ol’ water with some salt and white wine splashed in. It’ll turn out fine.

You need 4 cups of roasted, mashed squash for this soup. Leftover squash can be chunked up, heated with a little brown butter and served as a simple side dish, pureed for baby food, pies, muffins and quick-breads, mixed with a little ricotta and used to stuff ravioli (yum), frozen to make future soups, etcetera.

There is really no end to what you can do with a roasted Sugar Hubbard Squash, which is a relief because when you roast a Sugar Hubbard there seems to be no end to it.

Note: this is one of the recipes from the blogs early-days, slightly edited. As I can, I’m bringing the old recipes up to the new formatting standards, including adding a printable recipe. If you’ve been a long time reader, that’s why this recipe may look familiar. 

Start By Roasting Your Winter Squash

Any time you roast a vegetable you caramelize the sugars and evaporate some of the moisture, which results in a vegetable more flavorful and sweet than it started.

To roast a really large squash like a sugar hubbard, use your sturdiest knife or a small saw (yes, really) and chop the squash into big chunks. Don’t bother peeling (hah! as if you could!). Pop the squash pieces into a 375-degree oven until they are soft all the way through and starting to brown. Total time depends how big your chunks are. Check after 40 minutes, but it might take twice that long for really big hunks.

Scrape the roasted flesh of the squash off the skin with a big spoon. It should pretty much fall right off. Mash up enough to measure about 4 cups.

Curried Sugar Hubbard Squash Soup Step-by-Step

You will need your 4 cups of mashed roasted squash, onion and knob of ginger.

Peel and chop the onion and ginger. No precision necessary here.

In a large pot, heat several tablespoons of the fat of your choice over medium heat. I had rendered chicken fat so I used it. Olive oil, butter or lard are fine too. Brown the onions and ginger in the fat until they are lightly colored, then add in as much curry powder as you like. I like curry, I went for it. Stir it all up.

When the curry is fragrant, add in your mashed squash and 2 quarts (8 cups) of chicken stock.

Bring everything to a simmer, reduce heat to maintain a gentle simmer and cook, covered, for about an hour.

Use your immersion blender to puree the soup to a smooth, creamy puree. If the puree is too thick, add in additional stock or water to adjust. It should be about the thickness of heavy cream.

Taste. At this point your soup will need salt, pepper, and some acid. There has never, in the history of squash soup, been one made that didn’t benefit from a splash of Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar.

Once the flavor and texture is just so, you’re ready to eat!

Oh, you want it to look pretty too? Just garnish with curry roasted squash seeds and a small drizzle of sour cream thinned-down with a little apple cider vinegar.

Winter squash: the crop that just keeps on giving.

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Curried Sugar Hubbard Squash Soup

This makes an awful lot of soup, but leftovers freeze very well. 

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons butter, olive oil, or other cooking fat
  • 1 large onion, peeled and chopped
  • 1, 2-inch long piece of ginger, peeled and chopped
  • 2 teaspoon curry powder, or more to taste
  • 4 cups roasted, smashed Sugar Hubbard or other firm fleshed winter squash
  • 2-3 qts chicken stock (substitute vegetable stock, etc. as desired)
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, or more to taste

Instructions

  1. In a large pot set over medium heat, heat the butter or olive oil. Add the chopped onion and ginger and cook, stirring often, until they are lightly browned.  Add the curry powder and mix the curry with the onions, cooking just until fragrant. 
  2. Add in the roasted, mashed squash and 2 quarts (8 cups) of chicken stock. Bring everything to a simmer, reduce heat to maintain a gentle simmer and cook, covered, for about an hour.
  3. Use an immersion blender to puree the soup to a smooth, creamy puree. If the puree is too thick, add in additional stock or water to adjust. The soup should be about the thickness of heavy cream.
  4. Season to taste with salt, pepper and apple cider vinegar. Serve in a wide bowl, garnished with toasted spiced squash seeds and a drizzle of heavy cream.

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Author: Erica Filed Under: Cooking Tagged With: Winter Squash, CurryImportant Stuff: Affiliate disclosure

About Erica

Hi! I'm Erica, the founder of NWEdible and the author of The Hands-On Home. I garden, keep chickens and ducks, homeschool my two kids and generally run around making messes on my one-third of an acre in suburban Seattle. Thanks for reading!

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  1. foibleandfolly says

    February 11, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    Holy crap, I bet that smelled good. For Thanksgiving, I make a curried pumpkin soup that has bananas in it of all things. Love me some curry.

  2. Sinfonian says

    February 12, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    Great post! Teaching posts are so fun! I write them so irregularly. Now I have to convince my wife that I should plant squash, which no one in the house eats. Drat!

  3. Erica/Northwest Edible Life says

    February 13, 2011 at 10:12 am

    Thanks Chris/Foileandfolly! Let's hear the banana soup recipe! 🙂
    Sinfonian – I've been a little picture happy in my latests posts. Have you tried bush delicata? I have a hard time imagining anyone not liking maple-thyme glazed roasted delicata. Yum! Thanks for reading!

  4. Sinfonian says

    February 13, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    I haven't tried it, but it's on my list to buy from Territorial next time I order!

  5. Tracy Robinson says

    October 9, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    I just want to thank you again for posting the wonderful recipes …. I just made this one again but tonight but used acorn squash and it turned out amazing!!

  6. John R says

    December 1, 2013 at 10:49 am

    Say what? Someone gave me 5 of these “things” last week. I thought they were green pumpkins. I cut one up and boiled it in water and mashed like potatoes. Milk, butter and a little sour cream. Here I thought I had some good mashed pumpkin tators. The girl that gave them to me took one and was going to make pumpkin soup. She is from Jamaica, so she was going to put in chicken feet, so I am not going to try her soup. How can 2 people be so dense as to think they made green pumpkins?

  7. Barbara says

    December 11, 2015 at 10:08 pm

    Thanks Erica for answering my questions on the Survival Podcast. 12-4-15. I wanted to try something new in the squash department that the regular grocery store did not carry. After hearing the podcast, I was kicking myself for not taking a picture of these beauties and sending them in. A drill motor and hand saw…I had not thought of using those tools.

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