Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, kabocha squash soup with dumplings for the winter solstice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have kabocha squash soup with dumplings for the winter solstice using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Kabocha Squash Soup with Dumplings for the Winter Solstice:
- Make ready Kabocha Squash Rice Dumplings:
- Prepare 50 grams Kabocha squash with the insides removed
- Make ready 50 grams Shiratamako
- Get 60 ml Water
- Make ready Kabocha Squash Soup:
- Take 150 grams Kabocha squash with the insides removed
- Take 150 ml Water
- Prepare 50 ml Milk
- Get 2 tbsp Sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp White miso
Meanwhile, make the rice cake dumplings. Once cut into, whether cooked or raw, kabocha squash should be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to three days. Kabocha is the ultimate fall squash. Cookbook author Melissa Clark likes sweetening up slices of roasted winter squash, so she roasts them with maple syrup, olive oil, fresh ginger and thyme.
Steps to make Kabocha Squash Soup with Dumplings for the Winter Solstice:
- Prepare the broth: place the kabocha squash into a pot with water, cover with a lid and boil until it softens.
- After you have boiled it until soft, add all of it into the broth with a hand mixer. Add milk and sugar, and whip until smooth.
- Return to the pot, and turn on the heat. Add miso and dissolve. Check the flavor, and add sugar to taste if it is not sweet enough, then it's done.
- If the soup is too thick, add milk while checking on the texture.
- Prepare the dumplings: Moisten the kabocha squash with the insides removed, wrap in plastic wrap, and microwave until soft. Mash while still hot.
- Place the shiratamako and kabocha squash into a bowl, gradually add water, and knead it until it's about as soft as an earlobe.
- Roll into 2 cm balls into your hand, and make an indent in the middle with your finger (this helps the broth soak in. You can leave them as balls if you like).
- Drop into boiling water. Once they have floated to the surface, boil as-is for another minute. Drain the water, place into bowls, pour the broth over it piping hot, and it is done.
- You could eat the dumplings in a simple soup made of canned adzuki bean diluted in hot water.
Kabocha is the ultimate fall squash. Cookbook author Melissa Clark likes sweetening up slices of roasted winter squash, so she roasts them with maple syrup, olive oil, fresh ginger and thyme. My friend Noriko told me about the tradition of Toji 冬至, the winter solstice in Japan. This special day is traditionally considered an important moment to take care of oneself by having a bath with yuzu fruit 柚子 [Yoo-zoo], a Japanese citrus rarely eaten as a fruit. Delicious fall season soup with just a few simple ingredients.
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