Super Easy Butternut Squash Soup

During the week there is not much time to cook elaborate meals but we still need to eat well.

Sunday night or Monday morning I drag out the old Instant Pot and that poor thing runs for hours! I cook all of my grains and beans I need for the week so when dinner comes around I just throw a dish together and I don’t have to worry about soaking, or cooking beans or whole grains.

That’s where this recipe came about. I had a butternut squash hanging around and some black beans in the fridge so into the Instant Pot it went, along with half an onion, a couple cloves of garlic and thats about it.

This recipe is delicious, easy to throw together and is healthy enough you can use it on a cleanse.

You can keep it simple or be creative and add your own flare with spices and other additions like avocado, tomatoes, or peppers.

This soup is full of protein, fibre, vitamin A, vitamin C, Potassium, Calcium,. Magnesium and Iron.

If you don’t have an Instant Pot not to worry this can easily be done on the stovetop.

Easy Butternut Squash And Black Bean Soup

1. Cook your black beans or use canned beans, canned is not ideal but its better than nothing

2. Use a vegetable peeler to peel the butternut squash, cut and remove the seeds. Cut into cubes

3. In a stock pot sauté half an onion in butter or good quality olive oil, until soft and translucent, add a couple cloves of garlic roughly chopped, cook for a couple of minutes.

4. Add in your stock about 3-4 cups, a bayleaf and your cubed squash. Cook until the squash is cooked through and tender.

5. Add your black beans in and any spices. I used cumin, smoked paprika and some chilli. Don’t forget to fish out the bay leaf.

6. You can keep this soup chunky or transfer it to a blender and blend until smooth, just be careful the soup is super hot!

7. Feel free to hold back some of the black beans to add back into the pureed soup

8. Garnish with avocado, cheese, tomatoes or diced peppers, whatever you want.

Enjoy!!

I hope you liked this really simple soup! If you have questions or want to know more about your nutrition feel free to reach out to me, I am happy to help.

All the best, happy cooking and eating!

Sarah

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