So, autumn officially starts in 4 days.
Although in my Sierra Leonean bones and Suffolk kitchen it pretty much started in mid August.
Logs gathered and split, fires lit and the recipe ideas book filled with a gazillion soup recipe ideas for the coming colder months. Plus all the testing out too. Food blogging fun.
If you go through my soup ideas list, you would be able to tell that I have a serious orange vegetable obsession because the first 5 soups all have butternut squash or pumpkin with notes about sweet potato substitutions. So I figured that starting with butternut squash soup was the way to go.
This has got everything that you need for a hearty soup, creamy butternut squash balanced by a little tartness from the tomatoes, warming spices from the chorizo, cinnamon and smoky paprika and some protein bulk from the black eyed beans.
It is also the sort of soup that tastes better a few days later. Especially so, when you come home after a long long day, heat up a large bowl, curl up with an equally large spoon in a warm corner with a little itty bit of warm buttered bread.
Are you sold yet?
Below are other soup recipes you might like.
Roasted butternut squash soup with coconut.
Instant Pot Stuffed Squash With Cauliflower Rice.
Creamy broccoli and cheddar soup from Happiness is Homemade.
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Chorizo, Black-eyed Beans and Butternut Squash Soup
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large onion sliced
- 200 g (7oz) chorizo sliced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 sprigs fresh thyme
- 450 g (1lb) butternut squash or sweet potato peeled and cubed
- 220 g (7.5oz) cooked black eyed beans
- 450 ml (15fl. oz) stock
- 220 g (7.5oz) chopped tomatoes
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a pot and fry the onion for 5 mins till soft.
- Add in the chorizo, garlic, paprika, cinnamon, bay leaf and thyme and fry for 2 mins.
- Then stir in the butternut squash and black eyed beans and fry for 2 mins.
- Pour in the stock and chopped tomatoes and bring to the boil.
- Cover and reduce to a simmer for about 20-25 mins or until the butternut squash is cooked through.
- Adjust seasoning and serve.
We’re not big squash eaters around here but we really enjoyed the flavor they gave this soup!
Thanks for the great recipe. I made it tonight and added some celery and kale I had around the house. Delish. I’ll share it on my facebook page. Thanks!
That looks really tasty, I definitely like that flavour and texture combination.
WOW! What a FABULOUS bowl of comfort food Bintu! Thanks for sharing the link for my Smoky Mexican bean soup (5:2 diet) recipe too! Karen
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This soup looks fabulous Bintu! That squash is a shining star, so pretty and beautiful.
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Mmm… I need to try to find some gluten-free chorizo. I would love to try this! Looks gorgeous and hearty!
Thanks Megan.
Just love squash soup and I’d very happily eat this one – minus the chorizo, which I don’t think would matter at all.
Hey Choclette, simply leave the chorizo out if you don’t want t eat it.
Wow Bintu, my kinda soup! I’ve added chorizo to butternut and pumpkin soups before but usually whizzed it up, this looks fabulous.
I used to mostly prefer whizzed up soups but I am getting into the chunkier soups a lot more.
This looks amazing. I had never thought of using chorizo in soup before but I am going to try this as soon as I can. I love chorizo and squash. I like autumn when I can have food like this.
Autumn is cold but yes it does give us the chance to eat such warming dishes.
This looks so good, I could eat it right now x
I aim to give recipes that are very tempting. So glad you feel that way.
This looks and sounds delicious! Perfect for the chilly nights that are beginning to roll in and it looks really filling too! xx
Jess, it is really filling – I find I eat it mostly by itself.
That looks so good! I’m looking forward to making some soup for the family soon.
That is one of the best bits – getting the family together and ladling out huge bowls of this.