Sweetly fragrant and filled with healthy ingredients, this Spiced Apple Butternut Squash Soup is sure to become one of your Fall go-to’s! Just 8 ingredients and spices makes it easy to prepare — you’ll be able to get it on the table in under an hour. Serve it with my Orzo pilaf for a wonderful Fall meal!
Spiced Apple Butternut Squash Soup
I have several butternut squash soup recipes-- this one is our favorite! Apples, spices and apple cider add a fragrant, underlying sweetness to this rich golden soup. Ready in under an hour, it's sure to become one of your Fall favorites, too!
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp vegan butter (Earth Balance, Plant Butter)
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 cups chopped onion, yellow or red
- 1 tbsp curry powder
- 1 large butternut squash
- 2 medium apples, sweet
- 1 tsp salt, Kosher or Sea
- 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon, ground
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg, ground
- 1 cup veggie stock
- 1 cup apple cider
Instructions
- Heat the butter and olive oil in a medium-large stockpot over low heat.
- Add onions and curry powder and cook, 15 minutes, until the onions are tender. Stir occasionally scraping the bottom of the pot.
- Meanwhile, peel the squash, cut in half, remove the seeds. Cut into 1" chunks.
- Peel, quarter and core the apples. Cut into 1" chunks.
- Add the squash, apples, salt, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and veggie stock to the pot. Bring to a boil, cover and cook over low heat for 30-40 minutes, until the vegetables are very soft.
- Using an immersion blender or in a blender, blend the mixture until very smooth.
- With soup back in the pot, add the apple cider and heat slightly, stirring. Add water if necessary to get to the consistency you like. It should be fairly thick but smooth. Enjoy!
This beautiful squash is packed with vitamins, minerals and fiber. One cup:
This is the most delicious butternut squash soup with the added taste of apples ! A perfect soup for Autumn! I usually stay away from this type of squash because it is so hard to peel and cut, but the author of this soup gave me a sample and I just had to make it. I learned a tip on google on an easy way of peeling a butternut squash. Heat it in the microwave for 3 1/2 minutes or more depending on the size. Mine took about 9 minutes and it was pretty easy to peel and cut! Definitely… Read more »