With just 4 ingredients –oil, onion, squash, and water, Butternut Squash Soup is a delicious comfort food that’s easy to make! If you want a richer soup, use my homemade Bone Broth recipe in place of the water. Bone Broth will add protein as well as gut healing nutrients. Use water if you’re making this easy soup recipe for your vegan friends. Vegetable stock will also work very well in this soup recipe for vegans.
When I make this Butternut Squash Soup I use a butternut squash that weighs around 2.5 pounds before I remove the peel and the seeds. If you use a larger squash your soup will be thicker and creamier. Likewise, if you use less squash, the soup will become more watery. This easy soup recipe is incredibly flexible and would be fantastic with acorn squash, butternut squash, or even pumpkin.
This Paleo Butternut Squash Soup recipe is perfect for a cold winter’s day. We’ve had a lot of those lately. I haven’t worn anything outside but snow boots in all of 2007. And we just had our 7th snow storm in seven weeks. I don’t mind, I was raised in California where we pretended that a heavy frost was “snow.” Here’s to staying warm with a big dose of healthy soup!
Here are some of my other healthy soup recipes:
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45 responses to “Butternut Squash Soup”
How much butternut squash is needed? Wanted to use frozen but not sure how much = 1 med squash. Can it be made in a slow cooker?
Denise, thanks for your question! I would use about 5 cups squash in this recipe. I haven’t tried it in a slow cooker so not sure about that :-)
Elana, Hello again! Paleo Butternut Squash Soup, yum best ever!!! Thanks so kindly! My special wishes to you and to all those who you love and love you back abundantly, have a New Year that is more special than it has ever been. May health bless you plentiful in 2019! Jason
Jason, thanks for all of your lovely comments and for your super sweet wishes! Glad to hear this soup is yum, best ever :-)
Hi Elana! :) I have a friend who is allergic to onions. What do you think about swapping them out for leeks? xoxo Jules
Jules, thanks for your comment, it’s so great to see you here! I haven’t tried that so not sure, if you do experiment I hope you’ll let us know if it works :-)
My dad is allergic, we swap in celery
I just made butternut squash soup on Sunday! I use carrots and squash and roast them first. I season with EVOO and a seasoning blend that has salt, pepper, turmeric, allspice, chili pepper, coriander, cayenne, nutmeg and funegreek. I add fresh grated ginger and a little cinnamon to the soup as well. After the veggies are roasted I throw them in the pot with the stock, sautéed onions and garlic. I then use the immersion blender or Vitamix to puree till velvety. It’s easy, healthy and so good. Brought some to work today and coworkers who say they don’t like squash loved it. I like to garnish with some pepitas or a little popcorn for texture and a little swirl of pure maple syrup. If not doing paleo brown butter and sage is amazing on top. Looking forward to trying your version next!
Thanks Melissia
I have not tried this recipe, but I have my own tried and tested, handed to others too.
Butternut,onion, cooked and blended,
seasoning, coconut milk (once soup is not scolding) add half an orange squeezed,
Nutmeg, salt, pepper tp your taste
Can have hot or cold
Sounds great Kathy!
Holy moly! This is so so so so good!!!!!!!! Thank you! I made it as listed and it’s smooth, creamy, filling, and very tasty. It didn’t last a day and it was just me eating it. ;)
Bree, thanks for letting us know this was so so so so good!
Can I add coconut cream?
Maxine, I haven’t tried that so not sure how it would taste, but I bet it would be good :-)
Maxine, That’s how I make mine . Same ingredients but add 1 can of full fat coconut cream or milk
Delicious! I crumbled some bacon on the top. It’s quick, easy and yummy.
Thanks Kelly. Glad this was delicious!
This soup is really god with rosemary. I make it often. I never measure anything and it always turns out great! It is also very filling.
Denise, glad to hear this always turns out great!
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