Butternut Squash Soup & Western Sandwich - Bonita's Kitchen

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Butternut Squash soup:
1 Butternut squash 1 Potato
1 Carrot 1 Onion
1 stick celery, and leafs for garnish 1 Parsnip
¼ tsp nutmeg ¼ tsp ginger, fresh or powder
1 tsp sea salt ½ tsp black or white pepper
½ tsp onion powder 1 Clove garlic
1 tbsp melted butter 10 each, croutons
2 or 3 Cups vegetable broth 2 Tbsp sour cream

Method:
Cut butternut squash in half and scoop out seeds, then add nutmeg and ginger to the orange pulp. After place on a pan covered with parchment paper.

Then preheat oven to 350ºF and roast butternut squash for 30 minutes pulp up and 30 minutes pulp down. When cooked remove from oven and scoop pulp out carefully and place in large bowl.

Peel and clean all veggies, cut in small pieces and add to saucepan half full of water, add ½ tsp sea salt to hot water and boil veggies until fork tender.

Then scoop all veggies in with roasted butternut squash and mix together with hand held mixer adding about 2 cups vegetable broth from the saucepan cooked veggies. Continue mixing with your hand held mixer until butternut squash soup is smooth and silky, add melted butter, sea salt, black or white pepper, onion powder and pressed garlic clove.

Continue mixing until combined and ready to serve, reheat in saucepan if you like to serve it hot or cold. Scoop soup in a bowl with ½ tsp sour cream on top and use knife to make a design on top, then add croutons and celery leaf.

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Bonita’s Tips:
Adding nutmeg and ginger while roasting the butternut squash helps build flavours, you can add it to the soup as well.
Peeling and soaking veggies a few hours before saves time while making soup.



Western Sandwich
2 Eggs 1 Slice ham cut in small pieces
¼ cup bell peppers, cut in small pieces ¼ cup green onion, chopped
¼ cup tomato, chopped ½ tsp sea salt
½ tsp black or white pepper ½ tsp onion powder
½ tbsp butter 2 slices cheese
½ cup milk or cream 4 slices of bread
1 tbsp mustard 1 tbsp mayo

Method for Western Sandwich:
In a medium bowl add eggs and milk, mix together well. Then chop ham in small pieces and add to egg mixture.
Cut peppers, onion and tomatoes in small pieces and add to bowl, top with sea salt, black or white pepper and onion powder, continue mixing or folding the veggies in with the egg mixture.
Pre-heat a small frying pan and add butter, when melted add half the mixture to the pan and let cook for a few minutes. Then flip over to other side and cook, lifting the sides to see if its golden brown…..Add cheese slice or piece of cheese and cover with led to melt cheese.
Toast bread and butter, add mayo to one slice and mustard to the other, then top with fried egg omelet, put other piece of toasted bread slice on top and cut in four pieces and enjoy.
Continue doing that again with egg mixture to make another sandwich, this mixture makes two sandwiches.

I apologize in advance if anything in this video is not clear or miss read, please follow my recipe when making this dish.

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