Butternut Squash Soup

By A_Liebmann

Ingredients

• Butternut Squash Sauté
• 1/2 sliced onion
• pinch of thyme
• butter
• salt
• pepper
• 2 pounds diced butternut squash
• 5 cups chicken broth.
• "Variation"
• Squash and Sage Butternut Squash Soup
• 2 shallots instead of onion.
• Replace 1 1/2 cups of the broth with apple cider
• nutmeg.
• crème fraîche

Preparation

Step 1

Sauté 1/2 sliced onion with a pinch of thyme in butter until soft.
Add salt, pepper, 2 pounds diced butternut squash and 5 cups chicken broth.
Simmer until tender, then puree.

Variation

Make Butternut Squash Soup (No. 6)
use 2 shallots instead of onion.
Fry sage leaves in the butter.
Replace 1 1/2 cups of the broth with apple cider;
add nutmeg.
Top with crème fraîche and the fried sage.