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Making quality soups requires some familiarity, but during the fall and winter they are generally well worth the effort spent. In the past little while, garden vegetable soups have become increasingly well-liked as they seem to be more exotic “.

The most well-liked soup of all root vegetables has got to be butternut squash soup. This squash has a delicate taste and a wonderfully smooth finish that turns sweet well when roasted. In fact, that is the secret to a good butternut squash soup recipe – slow roasting the vegetable to begin with. You see the essential sweetness that comes from a little dry browning adds interesting layers of flavor that basically happens all by itself, irrespective the skill level of the cook making the soup.

As a matter of procedure, for the butternut squash soup it should be baked in the oven before it is made into a soup. To do that, raise your oven to about 350 degrees to warm up. In the interim, clean your butternut squash with a tough thin knife. The peel is so hard I simply use a boning knife for this job. You also should make sure to follow the outside shape of the lower half so as not to lose the meat of the root vegetable to waste.

When all is cleaned and deseeded, then just dice up the squash up into smaller pieces and lay them on a baking tray. I drizzle a small amount of oil on the nuggets, and add a few specks of nutmeg and cinnamon. To help the caramelization technique along I also add some dark sugar. This is an ingredient that will finish the soup anyway, so roasting it with the vegetable clicks.

Now just slow roast the butternut squash until the edges start turning brown, the sugar has completely melted, and that amazing buttery aroma fills your home. Only then are you ready to blend it into a terrific butternut squash soup.