Categories: dinner, soup, vegetable

Ingredients

• 3 Acorn squash
• 4 Carrots, thinly sliced
• 1/2 Onion, thinly sliced , I used one smallish
• Olive oil
• 2 Cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 cn Chicken stock
• Curry powder
• Cayenne pepper
• Salt and pepper
• 1/4 C. heavy cream
• Lime wedges (really makes the soup!)

Directions

1. Cut squash in half and remove the seeds.

2. Put a pat of butter or margarine in the cavity of each half and roast in the oven at 375 for 40 minutes or untill soft.

3. Let cool.

4. In the meantime, sauté the carrots and onions in a little olive oil until caramelized. Add chicken stock and deglaze the pan.

5. Add about 1/2 can of water to the stock.

6. Remove squash from the shell and put in saucepan with the stock.
7. Mash down the vegetables as much as you can.

8. Add seasonings to taste, then purée in blender or food processor.

9. Return to pot; add cream; and adjust seasonings.

10. Serve with wedges of lime to be squeezed on top.

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