Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

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

This is a creamy homemade roasted butternut squash recipe everyone will enjoy. It is truly easy, delicious, and healthy. 

If you are looking for a warm cozy meal this is it.

5 from 8 votes

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Course: Recipes, Soup

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Butternut squash, Butternut squash soup, squash soup

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Servings: 6

Calories: 276kcal

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

Dutch Oven

Immersion blender

Nutrition

Calories: 276kcal | Carbohydrates: 48g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 5mg | Sodium: 757mg | Potassium: 1376mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 34996IU | Vitamin C: 78mg | Calcium: 176mg | Iron: 3mg

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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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