Award winning Roasted Butternut Squash Soup with Apple featured in Westways Magazine, made with sweet roasted butternut squash, apples, carrots and herbs, pureed in the smoothest most flavorful, ideal fall soup.
Course Soup
Cuisine Italian
Keyword butternut squash soup, Thanksgiving soup
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Total Time 55 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Calories 177kcal
Author Florentina
Ingredients
1lbbutternut squash-peeled, seeded and cut into one inch cubes
Preheat your oven to 400 F. In a large baking dish toss the apples, butternut squash, carrot slices, red pepper flakes, bay leaf, sea salt, pepper and thyme with 1 tbs of melted butter or olive oil. Roast uncovered for 45 minutes or until tender.
Heat up the 3 tablespoons of butter or olive oil over medium-low heat in a cast iron pot. Saute the diced onions with a pinch of sea salt until translucent. Add the wine and let it reduce by half.
Add the roasted squash and apples to the pot together with the vegetable stock. Bring to a simmer and allow to cook together for 5 minutes. Discard the bay leaf and using a hand held blender puree the soup until smooth. Add the heavy cream or coconut cream and cook an additional 3 minutes.
Adjust seasonings and serve hot with a drizzle of cream, snipped chives and a pinch of freshly grated nutmeg.
replace the nutmeg with 1 tbsp of freshly grated ginger
use 1 small like instead of onion
make it vegan by using olive oil instead of butter and cashew cream in place of heavy cream. Simply dreamy with coconut cream as well!
make ahead - roast all your vegetables the day before and refrigerate until ready to serve. Combine with the veggie stock and heat up before blending into the creamiest soup. Freeze any leftovers up to 4 months.
for the silkiest texture use a powerful blender instead of an immersion blender.