What dish is the most indicative of leaves falling and the chilly autumn butternut squash soup recipe? The only downside of cooking with butternut squash is that it takes kinda forever.
But once you take a bite of the sweet squash you remember why it’s SO worth it. Roasting it before you make the soup is key to getting that caramelized, deeply sweet flavor in the squash that we all love. We love adding a couple potatoes onto the sheet tray with the squash to give the soup an extra creamy texture and more body. But if you’d rather stay away from potatoes, that’s totally fine. This soup will work without them! You simply roast the squash with a couple diced potatoes until tender.
You can totally skip the potatoes but we love the starchy creaminess that they give the texture. While those are roasting, you can start sautéing aromatics: onion, celery, and carrot. Then add your squash and potatoes and chicken broth and use an immersion blender to blend it up! Most good soup recipes start with you sautéing aromatics for flavor. This recipe calls for a classic mirepoix: onion, celery, and carrots that will give it a ton of flavor. We love thyme in this soup because—hello, fall! Rosemary or sage would be delicious, but even Italian seasoning or dried oregano would work here, too.
The conundrum of how to blend up a creamy soup is legit. An immersion blender makes it easiest. The stick blender allows you to just blend up the soup right in the pot! If you prefer to use a slow cooker you could put the raw squash and potatoes in with the other ingredients and cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 2-3 hours. Once the squash is tender, blend with your immersion blender and serve! Leftovers can be kept in an airtight container in the fridge for 5 days and in the freezer for up to 3 months!
Also, don’t judge use, but we think this soup is absolutely awesome sipped cold right out of the tupperware. If you like this soup even half as much as we did, let us know in the comments below! Editor’s Note: The introduction to this recipe was updated on September 10, 2021 to include more information about the dish. Let us know how it went in the comment section below! This ingredient shopping module is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page.