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.

Easy Creamy butternut squash soup surrounded by butternut squashes and onions

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!

Easy Smooth and Creamy Butternut Squash Soup

Ingredients12 Cups Butternut Squash (about 2 large squashes)

3 Large Onions
5 Cloves Fresh Garlic (minced)
5 Cups Chicken Broth
1/4 Cup Fresh Basil (chopped)
1 Tablespoon Salt
2 Tablespoons Avocado Oil

Directions

Grease a large pot with 2 Tablespoons avocado oil.
Using a vegetable peeler, peel butternut squash. Using a large knife, cut squash down the center into two halves. Remove squash seeds and stringy flesh. Cut squash into long strips, then dice. Add to pot and turn on medium-high heat.
Peel and dice onions, and add to pot.
Peel and mince garlic cloves, and add to pot.
Add salt, and cook until vegetables soften and juices begin to form.
Add broth to pot and stir until evenly incorporated.
Transfer half of soup mixture to high powered blender or Vitamix. Blend until smooth. Pour blended soup into a large stock pot. Add remaining half of soup to blender, and blend until smooth. Add to stock pot.
Stir in freshly chopped basil. Cook soup on low heat for 30 minutes.
Serve hot. Garnish with croutons or cashews, if desired. Enjoy!

Notes

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

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