Chayote Cream Soup - Adriana's Best Recipes (2024)

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Chayote Cream Soup with cheese and roasted pepitas is our suggestion for this lent Friday. Chayote is a vegetable from the cucurbitaceae family same asmelons, cucumbers and squash.

Chayotes are very popular in Mexico, where my mom had a chayote bush growing in our backyard garden. Chayotescan bedeep green and thorny but the type of chayote I am using for this recipe is light green and with no thorns. Both taste the same it isjust easier to cook those without the thorns for obvious reasons.

The chayote cream soup recipe is satisfying and luscious, a very nice option for a meatless Friday starter. This soup isvery easy to make and nutritious. Chayotes are a good source of vitamin C and when you cut themopen have a small seed that has a very nice nutty taste.

When my mom was used to cook chayotes I was always the winner of the small seed inside, one of my favorite things when cooking with her. It is just wonderful how food can bring you so many great memories and take you home to that very moment that you felt so much joy.

Cooking this chayote cream soup for my family is like bringing my mom’s dish alive and sharing this tradition with those I love, while teaching them about my culture and telling fun stories when growing up.

But cooking chayotes has a trick, many people cook them with the skin on and then peel.There is a reason for this. When peeling the raw chayote the uncooked skin has a milky sticky liquid that can stay in your hands for many days.

For this recipe I am peeling the chayote raw because in order to get a luscious creamy soup you need to blend it hot with butter, and cannot wait for the chayotes to get cold and then peel. That is why I recommend to use gloves when peeling to avoid the stickiness to stay in your hands.

Bringing chayote to your kitchen will give you a great opportunity to introduce your family to a tasty newvegetable that can be eaten cooked or raw. Chayotes are juicy and crunchy when raw, are a great addition to saladsor you can eat them as a snack withlemon dropsand some salt.

You can also cook the chayotes forcasserole dishes with bechamel sauce and cheese, or why not try my recipe and make a yummy chayote cream soup garnished with cheese and roasted pepitas.

Don’tforget to follow the7 Weeks of Lent Recipesseries, where we are sharing weekly recipe to inspire you to cook lent appropriate dishes at home.

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