Best butternut squash soup recipe?

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It is a pretty forgiving base to go in lots of flavour directions. I like with smokey bacon and sage - fry lardons with the onions, till onions soft, add cubed squash and chicken/veg stock, cook till soft, season with dried sage to taste and mash with potato masher (you can process but then you dont get any bacon chunks). I add chilli at bacon stage if not cooking for my toddler. If I have leek and cellery in I add at the onion stage.

If you don’t fancy that, Thai curry paste (red for colour best) and some coconut milk along with the stock is nice too.

This Hugh recipe is very good.

Cut the squash into cubes, complete with skin. Roast in a hot oven with salt, smoked paprika, thyme and vegetable oil. Boil a medium peeled potato cut into chunks in vegetable stock - I use Marigold - add the squash and a generous teaspoon or more of ground cumin and some pepper. Blitz with a stick blender. Add a swirl of creme fraiche to serve.

Mary Berry's one with red pepper and ginger.

www.bbc.com/food/recipes/roasted_butternut_squash_10281

I don't have a specific recipe but I put butternut squash into most vegetable soups as it gives it such a lovely velvety texture.

I roast the squash first we like it smokey and sweet! Also if you can get it and are not veggie, if you can get some black forest ham (lidl), roll it up and cut it into really thin shreds and fry it that makes a really good garnish

Also parmesan crisps ...also not really veggie, but delicious! Grate the cheese finely and put it evenly (about a pudding spoonful) onto a non stick tray and into a hot oven, the cheese will melt out into a lacey cracker that is just the best crisp, cheesey salty goodness!

If you want them to be perfectly round then use a pastry cutter as a stencil on the tray, sprinkle the cheese inside it and lift the cutter carefully .