Easy Smooth and Creamy Butternut Squash Soup

This Easy Smooth and Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe contains only five simple ingredients. It is the perfect go-to for a chilly day and packed with the amazing health benefits of allium family vegetables.

This year our butternut squash vines produced bountifully. To use the abundance, I crafted this five ingredient Easy Creamy Butternut Squash Soup recipe. I didn’t want something that required a lot of time, effort or unnecessary steps. Enter this incredible soup recipe. In the past I had always roasted my butternut squash with a little garlic and olive oil until it achieved a soft and tender texture. But this go round I decided to shake things up a bit.

Combining peeled and cubed butternut squash, diced onions and freshly minced garlic, I sauteed them together with a little avocado oil until the three vegetables formed their own stew-like consistency. They cooked down beautifully, the juices from the squash and onions creating the perfect atmosphere for soupy beginnings.

To achieve a rich and creamy texture, I used a large amount of butternut squash in this recipe. No potato starch, tarter sauce or added thickeners required.

Chicken Broth

Chicken or bone broth thins the vegetable puree to the perfect consistency of rich-but-not-too-rich. And if you want to make this soup stretch, consider adding water to make it go a little farther.

Fresh Basil

This soup brings surprisingly summery notes to the traditional fall flavors with the addition of freshly chopped basil. Basil adds an unexpected lift and enhances the sweet butternut squash flavor.

The Best Winter Squashes for Soup

Another reason why I love this soup recipe is that it’s flexible! Don’t have butternut squash on hand? I’ve made this recipe with both pumpkins and Georgia Candy Roaster winter squash. This soup doesn’t come picky and is up for a twist! Combine your favorite winter squashes for surprising flavors, or mix and match with what you have on hand.

What Kind of Onions are Best?

For this soup I grabbed the closest onions available, which so happened to be a collection of large and tiny red and yellow onions from our garden. So you see, this recipe really doesn’t have a preference as to how it’s created, so long as it’s created!

I hope you enjoy this soup as much as we do! To prove just how much we have grown to love this recipe, we recently canned 54 quarts of it! Yes, it’s a new winter staple. 😉

Joyfully,

Lauren

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This Easy and Creamy Butternut Squash soup is a delicious autumn version of our favorite Easy Creamy Summer Squash Soup.