Can you freeze squash, mushroom and chestnut soup?
Yes. Freeze it in containers, one meal to each.
How to freeze and defrost it, with the Food Standards Agency’s advice at each step.
The recipe
One batch makes 8 portions.
Ingredients for 8 portions
Method
Roast the squash
- Preheat the oven to 200°C fan.
- Peel and deseed butternut squash and cut it into 3 cm chunks.
- Toss the squash with olive oil on a large roasting tin and roast for 30 minutes until soft and catching at the edges.
Make the soup
- While the squash roasts, peel and chop onions, slice chestnut mushroom, peel and crush garlic clove and strip the leaves from fresh thyme.
- Heat olive oil in your biggest pan over a medium heat and fry the onion for 8 minutes until soft.
- Add the mushrooms, garlic and thyme and fry for 5 minutes until the mushrooms soften.
- When the squash has 5 minutes left, boil the kettle.
- Tip the roasted squash into the pan with chestnuts. Pour in water from the kettle and crumble in vegetable stock cube.
- Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Blend until smooth with a stick blender, then stir in double cream and season with salt and black pepper.
How to freeze
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cool any warm dishes before putting them in your freezer
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Pour into your containers, one meal to each, and seal.
How to defrost
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the safest way to defrost food is in the fridge overnight
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Take it out of its container.
- Tip it into a pan and heat it, stirring, until it’s steaming hot all the way through.
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it is important that food is cooked to steaming hot throughout, rather than warmed
, says the Food Standards Agency.
How we’d cook it, not advice. We don’t check recipes for allergens, and ingredients vary by brand, so check the label on everything you use. Prepare and cook food the way the Food Standards Agency says. Allergens and food safety
Nutrition
Per portion- Energy
- 282 kcal
- Fat
- 15.6g
- Carbohydrate
- 30.2g
- Protein
- 4.2g
Nutrition details
- Energy
- 282 kcal
- Fat
- 15.6g
- of which saturates
- 4.5g
- Carbohydrate
- 30.2g
- of which sugars
- 17.1g
- Fibre
- 6.3g
- Protein
- 4.2g
- Salt
- 1.63g
Estimated from ingredient data.
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Used in
No special kit
- Works best in freezer bags Any freezer-safe container does the job too.
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Freezing and defrosting safely
The Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words.
Label everything you freeze.
label food you freeze so you don’t end up with Unidentified Frozen Objects (UFOs)
The rest of the Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words, is in our freezing and defrosting guide.
Sources
- Food Standards Agency How to chill, freeze and defrost food safely gov.uk
- Food Standards Agency Cooking your food gov.uk
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