Squash Apple Soup | Vegetable/Fruit Day
Makes 2 servings - uses 4 oz of your vegetable day allowance and 1 cup of your fruit allowance
Ingredients
- 2 Rome apples, halved crosswise and cored
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1 cup peeled and finely chopped acorn or butternut squash
- 1/2 tsp Splenda or other zero-calorie sweetener
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground cloves
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
- water (enough to cover squash in saucepan)
- 8 oz vegetable stock
Directions
-
Preheat oven to 375°.
- Brush the apples with the lemon juice.
- Microwave on high until soft (approx. 5 mins).
- In a saucepan, boil the water.
- Add squash and boil until soft (approx. 15 mins). Strain.
- Mash together squash, Splenda, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
- Put baked apple flesh in medium bowl.
- Using handheld mixer, combine apple flesh and squash.
- Add vegetable stock.
- Heat puree.
- Season to taste.
- Enjoy!
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