This is the best homemade butternut squash recipe ever. It is truly easy, delicious, and healthy.
If you are looking for a warm 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 just 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 apple dessert for the perfect ending this fall.
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:
Ingredients for easy butternut squash soup recipe
Add ground cumin to homemade soup
Adding Organic Paprika to cooked squash mixture
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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 squash pulp is tender remove the pan from 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
Simple 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.
Autumn never tasted so good!
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This looks amazing. I will be making this for my family. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for your visit I hope your family enjoys the soup too.
Hugs,
Kippi
Kippi this looks AMAZING! I love how you added the little spider web but also how you added the seeds too. I don’t know why I always thought butternut squash was complicated to make. This looks totally doable though so I can’t want to make it for my family. Thanks for the easy to follow recipe. Hugs, CoCo
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Kippi
Kippi, I love this recipe! Butternut squash is my favorite fall soup. You make it look so gorgeous, too. Thanks for sharing!
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Hugs,
Kippi
A wonderfully autumnal recipe celebrating this time of years harvested goods. Love this recipe and adore the decoration in the first photo, the spider web pattern is genius!
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Kippi
Kippi, this soup looks amazing and delicious. I am so going to make it! Pinned!
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Have a great week, Kippi
Sounds like one I want to try. How many cups of squash did you have?