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Butternut Squash Soup
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Roasted Butternut Squash Soup with Browned Butter Sage Leaves, Toasted Pecans

Brown Buttered sage and toasted pecans top this creamy butternut squash soup.
Prep Time45 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Total Time1 hour
Course: Soup
Cuisine: American
Keyword: butternut squash, soup
Servings: 4
Author: Angela Roberts

Ingredients

  • 2 whole butternut squash
  • 1 medium sized apples cored, peeled
  • 2 organic carrots
  • 1/2 onion or 1 shallot
  • 2 1/2 cups water may not use all of it
  • 1 dash cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
  • 1 pinch ground cloves
  • 1 pinch freshly ground nutmeg
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon sriracha can use dash cayenne
  • 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup can replace with extract
  • 1 cup water
  • 12 sage leaves
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 9 pecans toasted
  • freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 F.
  • Roast butternut squash, apple, carrots, onion, in baking dish until each is softened. Check at 20 minutes for onion, and ten minutes after that.
  • Remove the apple, carrot and onion and set aside.
  • Once the butternut squash skin blisters and is softened, remove and cool until you can slice in half.
  • Scoop the seeds out and discard. Scoop out flesh into a bowl.
  • Season squash with cinnamon, ground cloves, turmeric, salt, pepper.
  • Place squash, carrots, apple, maple syrup, water into Vitamix and blend until thoroughly completely pureed. Add water in 1/2 cup at a time, and continue until you have the consistency you want.
  • Move the soup into a pot to heat on low.

Make Sage Leaves, Browned Butter

  • In small frying pan, brown two tablespoons of butter. Add both the sage leaves and pecans. Sage leaves should be browned not burned.
  • Roast Pecans for 3 to 4 minutes in 400 degree oven
  • Season again with salt and pepper as needed.
  • Chop Pecans. Add to each bowl with a sage leaf.
  • Finish with a pinch of nutmeg.