Enjoy the flavors of autumn with this Butternut Squash Soup from your slow cooker.
You see these beauties all the time at farmers markets. You often see them being used as autumn decorations. But these lovely autumn staples are even better when you cook them up.
To begin, peel & de-seed your squash, then cut them into 1 inch cubes.
Place those in your slow cooker along with some vegetable broth, salt, & pepper. Cover and cook on high for about 2 hours.
Near the end of the two hours, dice up some red bell pepper and onion, mince some fresh garlic, and grate fresh ginger.
Sauté the onions & bell pepper in a skillet over medium heat with a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil (or coconut oil.) When they are tender and just beginning to get some color, add in the garlic & ginger. Stir it together and cook for another minute.
Add them to the slow cooker and pour in some coconut milk.
With an immersion blender, mix this until smooth. If you don’t have an immersion blender, use a potato masher and mash it as smooth as you can.
Add in peanut butter, fish sauce, soy sauce, and curry powder. Stir them in, then cover and cook for another hour.
Stir in the juice of a lime just before serving.
Top with some sliced scallions and supper is done!
Enjoy!
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Butternut Squash Soup
Ingredients
- 2 lb butternut squash, peeled, de-seeded and cut into 1 inch cubes
- 1 c vegetable broth
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 onion
- 1 Tb extra virgin olive oil, or coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
- 1 can, 15 oz. coconut milk
- 1/4 c plain peanut butter, unsweetened
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 lime, juiced
- 2 scallions, sliced
Instructions
- To begin, combine the cubed squash, broth, salt, and pepper in your slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on high for 2 hours.
- When they are just about finished with the two hours, dice your red bell pepper and onion. Sauté these in a skillet over medium heat with the extra virgin olive oil.
- While they are sautéing, grate the garlic and fresh ginger.
- Cook the pepper and onion until they are tender and just beginning to get a little color.
- Stir in the garlic and ginger and cook for one final minute.
- Add them to the slow cooker and pour in the coconut milk.
- With an immersion blender, blend the contents of your slow cooker until they are smooth. If you don’t have an immersion blender, use a potato masher and mash everything until it is as smooth as you can get it.
- Add in the peanut butter, fish sauce, soy sauce, and curry powder. Stir these all in and cover & cook for one more hour. Just before serving, stir in the juice of a lime. Serve the soup topped with sliced scallions.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
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My favorite thing to make in a crockpot is pot roast.
Pork roast is fabulous in the crockpot!
Chili! I love smelling it cooking all day
I like to make barbeque chicken legs.
I love making Chili in my slow cooker. During the fall and winter months, I usually will make it once a week, it’s my family’s favorite :)
What a great slow cooker, sure would love to win it :)
My favorite crockpot meal is Crockpot Lasagna!!
I love my crock pot also, my favorites to cook are stew beef and roast with all the fixings.
My favorite thing to make is my own recipe chicken breasts, red potatoes, onion, carrots, cabbage, barley and lentils.
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I love to make soup in the crockpot … and it’s getting to be that time of year :) I’m so excited about this giveaway. It’s the prettiest crockpot I’ve ever seen!
Oh this crockpot is ADORABLE…. Such an awesome giveaway exspecially with fall season here and winter coming up . LOVE IT!!!
I love to make cheese dip!
One of my favorite things to cook in a Crock-Pot is pulled BBQ chicken
Nothing, yet! I’ve never used one before. Been thinking about getting one for a while now.
Soups & chili! But my next mole sauce will be with a crockpot.
I love my crockpot… but probably my favorite recipe is brisket (and most recipes you share) :-)
I love making pulled pork. It comes so soft and tender!
I love making soups and stews in the crock pot! Smelling them all day in the fall is the best!
Chicken and dumplings or anything like that is my favorite thing to cook in the crock pot but I use it all winter long and make anything from soups, stews, to breads and cakes. I love crock pots and mine just died.
pulled pork or chicken! YUM!
Any ragout – pork, rabbit, beef….
One of my favorite things to make in my Crockpot would be,
Chicken Crock pot: You will need Chicken fresh or canned.
Shredded Cheese, Cream of chicken soup, small can chili’s and flour tortillas.
Mix together, Chicken Cream Soup, chili’s, Onion, salt and pepper.
Tear Tortillas in fours,
Cover bottom of Crock pot with some Chicken mixture, layer with some cheese then Tortillas pieces, add more Chicken mixture, cheese and tortillas until gone, top with cheese and cook on low while your day continues up to 8 hours, with flavors just blending together. Delicious smells will meet you at the door when you get home. Hope all that try enjoy.
I love making delicious budget friendly soups in my crockpot and am so thankful for the inventor of crock pot liners!
I love to cook lots of chicken recipes in the crockpot.
Every fall I make spiced apple cider in a crockpot by leaving cider stewing all day with orange rind, cloves, nutmeg, and a few other fun throw-ins. Delish! Would love to win a new one to replace my old ratty stand-by… :-)
I cook in my crockpot often, and my favorite thing to cook is salsa chicken.
My favorite thing in my crockpot is probably chicken to shred for burrito fillings, although from all of the other posts, I probably need to try ribs…
I like to put fresh potatoes and carrots, from my garden with onion in the bottom and put a whole chicken that is seasoned with fresh herbs into a crock pot and let it cook all day till we are done with homeschool and I can just have a break finally. But my crock pot is so temperamental. Been thinking of having to get a new one. So this would be awesome! Everyone knows homeschooling on 1 income is not cheap but priceless indeed!
Chili Is My Favorite Crockpot Recipe!
I LOVE my crockpot but you can never have too many. I hope to come visit you one day. My sister lives in Madison. :)
How neat! If you come to town let me know. We can meet for coffee or something :)
Love to dump everything in the crockpot in the morning and come home to a finished dinner that night!!
Good old Beef Stew!!! :-)
Shredded chicken, always keep it around! I’ve tried oatmeal a couple times but I always burn it and spend a week scrubbing LOL
Cheesy hashbrown soup,
Angel Chicken
Roast
I cook lots in the crock pot. It’s perfect for busy homeschoolers! I’m not sure if I can pick a favorite but my most recent was last night…we had cream cheese Italian chicken. It’s so yummy!
Love to put ribs in the crockpot after they come off the grill. I so enjoy your recipes. Thanks for all the good information.
I love bacon chicken ranch pasta my family loves it.
Honestly I am still relatively new to crock pot cooking! The boys make chili, but I need to read your blog and get some more ideas!
We made ribs in the crock pot last week and they were very good, so I guess that is my current favorite. We were also talking about how old the crock pot is getting and will need to be replaced very soon. Fingers crossed for the giveaway!
Peg~
I’m a traditionalist! The first thing I ever made in a CrockPot was chili, and it still is the best thing I make in a CrockPot.
Also, I ADORE this Damask pattern and my old CrockPot is getting kind of unreliable (it gets too hot sometimes).
My favorite thing to make in a crock pot is my grandma’s recipe for Beef Paparika. Delicious and hearty on a cold winter day!
Pretty crockpot! I made your white chicken chili last week and we liked it is much, Husband had asked to have beans and soup soon so when I cooked this delicious recipe, it was a winner on both ideas, thank you.
Thanks! I’m so glad you both liked it!
I love making overnight oatmeal in my Crockpot!
I like to cook veggie chili in the crockpot.
My favorite thing to make in a crock pot is short ribs. Caramelize then on the stove top and then toss ’em in the slow cooker and let them get fall off the bone tender.
You got me beat, I only have one huge one that feeds my crew and one tiny one for dips….but I use the big one twice a week ;)
I have a little sauce one – it came with one of my other crockpots :)
I like to make granola in a crockpot. And a sausage & apples dish. At this point I have no crockpot because the one I had developed a nasty odor in the unsealed bottom edge of the crock insert. Not sure how that happened. It might be nice to have another crockpot. Would need to find space for it in my kitchen…
I have ribs cooking in my 40-year-old Crock-Pot as I read this. So I think ribs is my fave thing!
My favorite and easiest thing is to cook in a crockpot is a bone-in turkey breast.
(comment got cut off) But if I had to choose, making soups and applesauce are my favorites!
I love your crockpot recipes-so yummy!
Thank you Kate!
I like making Chili or soup. A nice giveaway. Thanks Constance.
Mmmm!
Chicken boobs with picante sauce and cream cheese!