Steps to Prepare Quick Simple Butternut Squash Soup

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, simple butternut squash soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Simple Butternut Squash Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Simple Butternut Squash Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have simple butternut squash soup using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Simple Butternut Squash Soup:

1. Take 1 small butternut squash or 1/2 large one (500 g)
2. Make ready 1 small onion
3. Take 1 Tbsp butter or olive oil
4. Take 500 ml broth (I use vegetable or Kombu broth)
5. Make ready 1/2 tsp salt (if using unsalted broth)
6. Make ready optional garnish: chopped parsley and/or toasted cumin seeds

Steps to make Simple Butternut Squash Soup:

1. This is the size butternut squash I used. It was 500 g (450 g after peeled and seeds removed).
2. Peel butternut squash and remove seeds. Chop into bite-sized cubes. Cut onion into thin slices.
3. Melt butter in a medium pot and sauté sliced onions in low heat until starting to turn slightly brown (about 7-10 minutes).
4. Add the butternut squash to the pot and stir around to coat with the butter and onions.
5. Pour in enough broth to cover everything (about 450-500 ml). If using unsalted broth, add 1/2 tsp salt too.
6. Bring to a boil then turn to low heat. Cover with lid and simmer for about 15 minutes until squash is soft.
7. Turn off heat and purée the soup with a mixer. If you don't have a mixer of some sort, try mashing it up as much as possible with a fork (it will be a chunky soup this way). Taste and adjust seasoning.
8. Dish out into bowls and garnish with some chopped parsley and or toasted cumin! (To toast cumin, simply heat about 1/2 tsp in a dry frying pan for a few minutes until it smells good. Be careful not to burn).

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