BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour - Butternut Squash & Rhubarb Soup

Ingredients

1.25 kg butternut squash
1 ¾ pints of chicken stock
1 large onion, chopped
1 tablespoon of oil
4 tablespoons rhubarb puree (made from ½lb of rhubarb, 1 tbsp caster sugar)
Coriander for garnish

Method

To make the rhubarb puree, wipe and cut the rhubarb into chunks, place in a saucepan with 1 tablespoon of caster sugar and bring slowly to the boil. Leave to boil for one minute only and take off heat. Leave in saucepan with lid on and allow to cool down completely.

Fry onion in oil. Peel, de-seed and chunk the butternut squash and place in pressure cooker with the onion. Add the chicken stock and cook on high for about 10 minutes. Allow to cool before liquidising in a blender. Add the pureed rhubarb and 1 tablespoon of chopped coriander. Season to taste.

Reproduced by kind permission of Grace Mulligan

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