Low carb keto friendly butternut squash soup
Can a butternut squash soup be low carb and be a part of a healthy weight management program? This is my recipe that helps me do just that
Ingredients
- Half a cup of chopped bell pepper
- half a cup of diced red onion
- three stalks of celery sliced
- one small butternut squash
- one teaspoon of yellow curry powder
- half a teaspoon extra turmeric powder
- one or two teaspoons of salt to your taste
- one inch piece of ginger
- 2 inch piece of cinnamon
- 2 cups of water
- half a cup of thick coconut cream.
- pinch of crushed pepper and mustard seeds
Instructions
- heat a tablespoon of oil in a stock pot and add cinnamon stick and ginger. fry for couple of minutes and pick the ginger out. Add onion, celery and pepper and sauté for a minute. Add curry powders, salt, pepper and mustard seeds and butternut squash. give it a toss and add water cook until vegetables become soft. mash with a potato masher and add coconut cream. bring everything back to a gentle simmer and cook until oil begins to separate. Turn the heat off and garnish with a couple of sliced curry leaves while still hot.
- To make it as low carb as possible, I added celery and a cup of coconut meat. Both ingredients add extra fiber to the meal. Puree the coconut meat as much as possible with a high-speed blender before adding it to the soup and cook for 15 minutes longer.