Cozy Winter Squash Soup in Under an Hour!
This easy butternut squash soup can go from grocery bag to dinner table in less than an hour! With minimal hands-on time required, it makes the ideal meal for a busy family. It’s just what you need for a quick, cozy dinner at home, and as an added bonus, it will make your house smell like gloriously autumnal. Thank you golden butternut squash, garlic and thyme!
The secret to making this soup perfectly smooth and delicious is that it is made in our new Ascent Series Vitamix Blender. We gathered all the best fall ingredients, roasted them in the oven and then placed them in our Vitamix for a silky smooth soup. This amazing blender is a game changer for sure.
What Spices Do You Add to Butternut Squash Soup?
There are only three types of butternut squash soup worth having:
- One that is loaded with fall spices (like this one!)
- Butternut Squash Soup with Curry
- Slow-Cooker Butternut Squash Soup
While curried butternut squash soup is legit delicious, for this recipe we are leaning hard into classic fall flavors. Nutmeg and thyme compliment the roasted sweetness of the seasonal fall produce like crisp, sweet apples and buttery orange squash. Some people like to add sage and cinnamon, but we wanted to keep the flavors clean and light. In our experience both sage and cinnamon can be overpowering in a soup like this.
How Do You Make Butternut Squash Soup From Scratch?
Making soup from scratch is super easy—we promise! Our butternut squash soup recipe starts with whole ingredients (apples, squash, onion, garlic) that are simply given a rough chop and then roasted in the oven. Once everything is beautifully browned, we transfer it to our Vitamix blender. It sounds too easy, we know, but there is no catch. This is truly the best butternut squash soup recipe out there, and the fact that it’s also the easiest is just the cherry on top. Once you make it, you’ll be hooked on this warm and flavorful fall dinner!
Ingredients You’ll Need to Make Butternut Squash Soup.
You could pretty much just shop for everything you’ll need at the farmers market. And that’s our favorite thing to do this time of year! Here’s what you’ll need:
- Fresh produce: butternut squash, onions, apples, and fresh garlic.
- Herbs and spices: thyme, nutmeg, cayenne, salt and pepper
- Olive oil & cream (or coconut cream to make it vegan!)
- Pepitas (aka toasted pumpkin seeds) for a little crunchy texture.
A kiss of heavy cream makes our butternut squash soup recipe silky and smooth, but you can easily swap it with some canned coconut milk to make it a vegan butternut squash soup. However, if it’s health you’re worried about, a little heavy cream doesn’t undo the fact that this is a veggie-loaded, healthy butternut squash soup!
How Do You Make Roasted Butternut Squash Soup?
This soup comes together in just two quick steps!
- Take all the squash, apples, onion and garlic and place them on a rimmed baking sheet. Toss it all in a healthy amount of olive oil, then pop it in the oven! We roast all these perfectly fall ingredients together with thyme.
- Transfer your roasted goodies to the blender, and blend!
Tips for Making Butternut Squash Soup:
- If you don’t have time to peel a butternut squash, you can buy it already cubed at the grocery store.
- Use a sweet red apple varietal like Fuji, Gala, or Honeycrisp. This will add a lovely sweet note to your soup.
- Top this soup with pepitas (pumpkin seeds) for an extra special crunch.
What Else Can I Make in a Vitamix?
This time of year you can find us constantly making the following things in our Vitamix:
- Any creamy soup you love! Think tomato soup, pea soup, lentil soup. The list goes on and on.
- Salad dressings and marinades are also constantly putting our Vitamix blenders to good use and we use them on just about everything!
- And of course our daily smoothies (using this smoothie cup).
Which Vitamix Can Make Hot Soup?
You can make hot soup in any Vitamix! Say what? I know, it’s crazy and it’s awesome. How does it work? The friction of their blades is the trick to making steaming hot soup in under 10 minutes, right in the container, no stove required. It’s yet another way to ensure that this recipe hits your table in under an hour!
Did This Stunner Make It Onto Your Dinner Table?
When you decide to give this butternut squash soup a try, we’d love to hear about it! Be sure to snap a photo, add it to your Instagram feed or stories, and tag @themodernproper and #themodernproper.
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