Low Carb Roasted and Curried Butternut Squash Soup

This Low Carb Roasted and Curried Butternut Squash Soup is made with roasted garlic and onion blended to a creamy and velvety rich soup with a touch of curry and chipotle flavours.

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I have been making this low carb butternut squash soup recipe for years and I love how this soup always gives me that warm and toasty feeling especially as the temperatures start to drop in the fall.

Roasting the vegetables in the oven gives this soup that extra nutty roasted flavour that makes it feel like being curled up in a blanket next to the fire. Oh, how I love that feeling.

🥘 Ingredients Used

Simply roasting the butternut squash, onions and garlic with chicken broth would make this soup terrific but I also add a little curry and chipotle powder to give it that extra warmth.

• Butternut Squash: similar flavours of a sweet potatoe but a bit softer and super creamy after roasting.
• Onion: roasting an onion gives this soup a caramel almost umami flavour.
• Garlic: using a full head of garlic in this recipe and roasting it in the oven until each clove gets buttery soft.
• Curry Powder: for that unique sweet and spicy flavour blend of cumin, turmeric, cinnamon and cloves.
• Chipotle Powder: giving this soup a little smokey and earthy flavours
• Heavy Cream: adding a little more cream to this soup, rounding out all the flavours of the ingredients.

👨🏻‍🍳 Steps to make this soup

How to make low carb butternut squash soup?

STEP 1: Preheat the oven to 400°F and quarter the butternut squash, remove all guts and seeds. Quarter an onion and trim off the top of a head of garlic and place in tinfoil. Place all on a parchment lined baking sheet and brush everything with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place about a tablespoon of olive oil in the tinfoil with the head of garlic. Roast the onion and garlic for 40-50 minutes and the butternut squash for 1.5 hours.

STEP 2: Once all the veggies are roasted, scoop out the butternut squash with a spoon and place in a large pot. Once the garlic is slightly cooled, remove from the tinfoil and squeeze out the cloves into the pot. Place the onions in the pot and add 30 oz of chicken broth, the curry and chipotle powder with a pinch of nutmeg. Stir and bring to a boil over medium heat.

STEP 3: Once soup is boiling remove from the heat and add the heavy cream. Allow to slightly cool and use an immersion blender to blend all the ingredients together until smooth and creamy.

• STEP 4: Soup is now ready to serve. If the soup has cooled down too much you may need to warm it up again on the stove. Serve in your favourite soup bowls and top with a dollop of sour cream.

👨🏻‍🍳 Substitutions and Variations

Just like most soups you can add or remove many of the ingredients to fit your tastes and dietary needs.

• Dairy Free - keep it dairy free and omit the heavy whipping cream
• Vegan - leave out the heavy cream or swap with coconut cream and swap the chicken broth with vegetable broth and make this a delicious vegan keto butternut squash soup.
• Vegetarian - swap the chicken broth with vegetable broth to make it a vegetarian soup.
• Keto: if too many carbs in this soup are stopping you from enjoy it, simply use half a butternut squash and simply add more chicken broth to desired consistency for a keto friendly soup.

This soup is also gluten friendly

♨️ Top tips and serving suggestions

Top Tip: Use a sharp knife to cut into the butternut squash and use extra care as it may need a little muscle to slice into it.

• Serving: enjoy this low carb butternut squash soup recipe served with a dollop of sour cream on top. Shaved brussel sprouts or kale chips also go well on this soup.
• Storage: store in an airtight mason jar in the fridge for up to 5 days.
• Freeze: freeze in an airtight container in the freezer for up to a month. To serve, remove from freezer and allow to come to thaw, then warm up on the on medium low heat for 15 minutes.

🥣 Equipment used to make this soup

I used an immersion blender to make this soup. It simply makes it much easier to blend soups in the pot instead of having to remove the hot soup to a blender. I also use my immersion blender to stir natural peanut butters and I love using the whisk attachment to quickly make this Easy Low Carb Pumpkin Mousse.

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