Butternut squash and carrot soup

This one’s for Kerys, sorry I’ve been so slack!
We get a vegetable box on a weekly basis and it’s a bit of good and a bit of bad. This week we had a butternut squash so I thought I’d make one of my favourite soups. I cut the squash into chunks, coated it olive oil and soy sauce then sprinkled taragon and black pepper on top. I chopped up about six carrots and then roasted them and the squash in the oven together for about an hour on a lowish heat. I fried a chopped up leek, a large onion, 4 garlic cloves, a splash of balsamic vinegar and a big squirt of tomato puree. Next I added added the roasted veg and the fried stuff into a pressure cooker, covered with cold water, added a couple of veg stock cubes and brought to the boil with lid on. When the cooker  started to whistle I dropped the heat and simmered for 20 mins. I then took it off the heat and blended it all together. It makes a very lovely, wholesome soup and it looks like this:

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Joseph didn’t eat his but the rest of us ate ours which proves it was nice!

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