This is the best homemade butternut squash recipe ever. It is effortless, delicious, and healthy.
If you are looking for a warm and cozy meal, this is it.
Butternut squash soup
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Hello Fall! I am so ready to cozy up with a warm bowl of soup and enjoy hot cocoa. I need my favorite throw blanket and a good book, and I ready to enjoy fall. It is time to relax after a busy summer and before the busyness of the holidays.
Serve an easy dessert for the perfect ending.
Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
I like to use fresh squash for this recipe. However, you can substitute frozen squash (36 oz.) for the fresh stuff.
Let’s cook up some delicious fall soup.
Start by gathering your ingredients:
- 3 to 4-pound fresh butternut squash
- 1 Granny Smith apple
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 3 Tablespoons olive oil
- 2 Yellow onions chopped
- 4 Carrots
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 40 ounces of chicken stock or vegetable broth
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/8 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- Garnish with sour cream, roasted pepitas, fresh herbs
Baking squash for soup
Roasted butternut squash for soup
Supplies and Tools:
**For your convenience I have gathered all my cooking must-haves HERE.
- Dutch Oven
- Immersion Blender
- Half Sheet Pan
- Blender
- French chef knife (this is the one I use)
- Soup bowls
Ingredients for easy butternut squash soup recipe
Chopped fresh vegetables
Add butter and oil to the pan
Saute onion
Add carrots and continue to saute
Season with salt and pepper
Add roasted butternut squash and apple
Slowly add stock
Cool mixture
Add ground cumin to homemade soup
Adding Organic Paprika to cooked squash mixture
Using an immersion blender to cream winter squash soup
You can use a blender if you like to puree the soup instead of the immersion blender. However, the mixture has to be cool before using a blender.
Cooled mixture
Pureed butternut squash soup
Butternut Squash Soup
Ingredients
- 3½ pound Butternut squash
- 1 Granny Smith apple
- 1 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 2 sweet onions, chopped
- 4 carrots peeled and chopped
- 40 ounces chicken broth
- ¼ heavy cream
- ⅛ teaspoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon ground cumin
- ⅓ sour cream
Instructions
- Cut the squash in half and remove the seeds. Place the cut side down on a foil-lined sheet pan
- Cut apple the apple in half and remove seeds and place on the same sheet pan as the butternut squash
- Place the sheet pan in a preheated 400-degree oven and bake for 45 minutes or until the squash pulp is tender remove the pan from the oven to cool. Scoop out the squash and apple.
- Place butter and oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add chopped onions, carrots, and salt and pepper to taste, cook for 20 minutes.
- Add squash, apple, and chicken broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- To puree the mixture you can use an immersion blender, a blender, or a food processer.
- Return mixture to the Dutch Oven. Stir in cream, paprika, and cumin, and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Garnish with sour cream, pepitas, fresh herbs
Equipment
Nutrition
Soup before garnish
Garnished Soup
This soup is delicious plain, but I like to serve it with a selection of garnishes. My favorite garnishes (toppings) for this soup are pepitas, sour cream, cracked black pepper, and fresh parsley.
The perfect accompaniment to serving the soup is fresh garlic bread (this is my favorite recipe).
Perfectly garnished pureed squash soup
Soup with roasted pepitas and cracked black pepper
Soup with pepitas, herbs, and sour cream
This creamy butternut squash soup is the ultimate comfort food.
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Bon appétit,
Kippi
Rachelle
Friday 14th of January 2022
This is the kind of soup we love to eat during the cold weather. I like the idea of roasting the squash along with an apple for a bit of sweetness. I'm featuring you at the next FWF party! Rachelle
Michelle @ The Painted Hinge
Tuesday 28th of September 2021
Kippi this recipe looks absolutely delish!!! I'm a huge fan of butternut squash soup so I'm definitely adding this recipe to my "to try" list! Thanks so much for sharing it with us at Farmhouse Friday - we're featuring you at tomorrow's party!
Elizabeth
Tuesday 21st of September 2021
This soup looks delicious!
Tai East
Friday 17th of September 2021
Homemade soups are one some of my favorite things to make, so I'm excited to try this one out! Thank you for sharing, Kippi!
Dianna
Thursday 1st of October 2020
Sounds like one I want to try. How many cups of squash did you have?