Butternut Squash Apple Soup

Source: Kim Blanchard

Servings :6
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Total time: 45 minutes

Ingredients:

· 5 cups chicken broth
· One medium sized butternut squash peeled and cubed in 1” cubes
· One diced yellow onion
· One apple diced – unpeeled
· Vegetable oil
· 2 Tablespoons butter
· Salt to taste
· White pepper – to taste
· Nutmeg about 1 teaspoon
· Cinnamon- about ½ teaspoon

Directions:
Sauté onion in 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil until soft
Add chicken broth and cubed squash
Cover and boil for about 15 minutes until soft
Add diced apple and boil for another 5 minute until soft

Remove from heat, spoon out squash and apples (retaining broth) and blend in blender just until smooth
Return blended squash and apples to pan with broth
Add butter
Add salt and white pepper to taste
Add nutmeg and cinnamon
Mix well

Serve hot

Comments: I tasted a yummy Butternut Squash Apple Soup at Whole Foods Market and came home and looked up a bunch of recipes online and then combined them and created my own. This turned out delicious!