Cream of Sweet Meat Soup with Bacon & Cardamom

Cream of Sweet Meat Soup with Bacon and Cardamom

Ingredients

  • 8 cups chicken broth
  • 6 cups of Sweet Meat squash diced
  • 3 medium potatoes diced
  • 2 cups carrots diced
  • 150 ml chopped onions
  • 105 ml leeks minced
  • 60 ml melted butter
  • Salt and Pepper
  • Garnish
  • 100 ml of cream 15%
  • 2 bacon slices cut into small cubes
  • 30 ml squash cubed
  • 4 or 5 grains of cardamom
  • Pinch of Parsley

Instructions

  • Instructions for garnish: Brown the bacon with the diced squash. reserve. Heat the crushed cardamom seeds in the cream for about 5 minutes.
  • Melt the butter and sweat onions and leeks.
  • Add the squash and carrot. Cook 5 minutes.
  • Add the chicken broth. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Season at this time.
  • Add the diced potatoes and cook another 10 minutes.
  • When the vegetables are tender, blend all in a mixer until a beautiful purée is obtained.
  • Add at the very end, incorporate the cardamom-infused cream to your soup.
  • Arrange in a bowl, making sure to put in the center the small bacon gilded bacon and a nice sprig of Italian parsley .