Instant pot butternut squash soup is velvety smooth soup, perfect for lunch or dinner. It’s a great winter meal with crusty bread.
This soup is vegan, naturally gluten free and has extra kick from red bell peppers and curry powder. It only takes minutes in your instant pot to get this soup ready.
Instant pot butternut squash soup has wonderful fall flavors to it. This is by far the most wonderful butternut squash soup I’ve ever tasted. It’s mildly spiced and has fall flavors to it.
With green apples, carrots, onions and garlic (add ginger as well if you want more flavor in the soup) this healthy butternut squash soup is perfect winter soup to warm up your belly.
Chilly air, long sleeves sweater, socks covering up your feet means you want to curl up in your sofas with covers on. And oh, a big mug/bowl of soup in your hand! Can you imagine that?
Cold weather is actually the best. Apart from everything mentioned about winter season, another great think is you also get to enjoy this season of soups with a whole variety and ranges of soups.
Especially in winters there is nothing better than dunking in your crusty, buttery bread into warm bowl of smooth velvety soup. It’s quick and easy to make and needs BASIC ingredients.
Butternut squash soup instant pot keeps well for days and it freezes like a champ. All you’ll need is crusty warm toasted bread for dunking.
The sweetness from butternut squash, slight tang from the apples, mild kick from red bell peppers and curry powder and all other flavors and spices makes this instant pot butternut squash soup ultra delicious!
The Best Part of Instant Pot Butternut Squash Soup
- No fancy ingredients
- It’s got all wonderful fall flavors
- It’s perfect winter soup to warm you up
- It’s totally healthy
- It’s vegan, gluten free, diary free and oil free
- It’s dump-it-all-at-once-cook kinda of soup
- It’s very fast to make( 10 minutes on instant pot)
- It’s got mild spice kick to it
- It’s a great make-ahead soup
- Wonderful way to use up butternut squash from your kitchen
- You can make it large batches and it’s easy to freeze
Instant Pot Butternut Squash Ingredients
Simple basic ingredients is all you need –
Butternut squash
Granny smith apples
Onions
Carrots
Celery
Red bell peppers
Garlic
Ginger
Coconut milk
Vegetable stock
Salt and pepper to taste
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Spiced Cauliflower Almond Soup
Chinese Vegetable Manchow Soup
Roasted Sweet Potato Cumin Soup
Why I choose to make butternut squash soup in instant pot
Instant pot has gotten a lot of buzz lately. And why not! It’s a versatile multi-cooker that can do the job of a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, and more. It also saves you counter space and money.
The pressure cook features allow it to cook everything so much faster and saves so much time. You also don’t have to physically stand next to it to keep a watch.
Most of the instant pot recipes are dump-in-all-at-once-and-cook types. This instant pot butternut squash recipe is just that.
Dump all soup ingredients (except for coconut milk) at once and cook in pressure cook setting for about 7-10 minutes, that otherwise would take 45 minutes.
If you want to enhance flavor of this soup a little more, you can saute onions and garlic first until they begin to brown and then add in all other ingredients, pour in broth, cover and close lid and cook for 7 minutes in HIGH PRESSURE setting.
Another reason you have to make this soup in instant pot is you can keep it warm (using keep warm setting) for couple of hours even after soup is done. Make it couple of hours before dinner time and set it on KEEP WARM mode. All you’ll need is buttery crusty warm bread for dunking.
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Instant Pot Butternut Squash Soup
How to cut butternut squash – Peel skin on butternut squash. Cut into half through the middle. Scrape out the seeds. Cut lengthwise slices, stack all the slices together and make crosswise cuts to make cubes.
Dump all ingredients(except coconut milk) into instant pot.
Add vegetable broth and seasoning as per taste.
Cook on high pressure for 10 minutes. Please note, instant pot will take a few minutes to build up pressure and then the cooking time starts.
Once cooking time is over, quick release the pressure by turning valve into VENTING mode.
Open lid.
Add coconut milk into the pot.
Using immersion blender, blend all ingredients until smooth.
Check for seasoning and add if required.
Select KEEP WARM setting to soup warm until ready to serve.
Pour into individual serving bowls.
Garnish and serve with warm buttery crusty bread.
Instant Pot Butternut Squash Soup
Ingredients
- 1 butternut squash about 2 pound, Peeled and chopped into cubes
- 1 carrot cut into chunks
- 1 Granny Smith apples diced
- 2 white onions diced
- ½ cup celery rib chopped small
- 1 red bell peppers diced
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 inch ginger chopped (I skipped this)
- 4-5 sage leaves
- 2 ½ teaspoon curry powder or use cayenne pepper
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- 3 cups vegetable stock
- ¾ cup thick coconut milk
To serve
- Few teaspoons of coconut milk to drizzle or swirl
- Sunflower seeds
- Dried cranberries
- Thyme
Instructions
- How to cut butternut squash - Check this post to know how to cut butternut squash.
- Into the pot add butternut squash cubes, white onions, carrots, green apples, celery, red bell peppers, garlic.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Pour vegetable stock into the pot.
- Cover the lid, ensure the pressure valve is in SEALING position.
- Select PRESSURE COOK mode on the pot and adjust the timer to 10 minutes.
- Once cooking time is over, manually release pressure by turning pressure valve to VENTING mode.
- Open lid, add coconut milk.
- Remove sage leaves if you don’t like, I left it on.
- Using immersion blender, blend soup into smooth velvety texture.
- Ladle out soup into individual serving bowls.
- Garnish with any of your favorite ingredients. We swirled a few teaspoons of coconut milk, sprinkled sunflower seeds, dried cranberry and fresh thyme leaves.
- Serve warm with crusty bread on the side.
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Notes
- To enhance flavor of this soup - saute onions and garlic until they begin to brown and then add rest of the ingredients, pour in broth, cover and close lid and cook.
- If you don't like curry powder flavor, use cayenne or even smoked paprika. Also adjust the quantity as per your spice tolerance levels.
Stacy Physick
LOVE the flavour and simplicity of this recipe!! Make it all the time!!👌🏻
Jyothi Rajesh
So glad you loved it!
Joyce
I’ve made several time and it’s an all time favorite for my whole family. Including my son in law and he’s a picky eater.
Jyothi Rajesh
So glad to know you and your whole family are loving the recipe!
Alex
Would omitting the apples affect the soup much?
Jyothi Rajesh
I haven’t tried this soup without apples. My guess is there may be a slight taste difference without apples. I would recommend you add onion, garlic and bell peppers and butternut squash to the soup so there is no much compromise on taste and flavor.
Elizabeth Tracey
In your noted you mention sautéing the onions and garlic. Do you suggest olive oil or butter? And how much?
Jyothi Rajesh
Use 2 to 3 teaspoon olive oil and saute 1 medium onion and 3 cloves of garlic for this recipe.
Janice
Just made this tonight – thank you so much for posting this – I didn’t have bell peppers so I upped the carrots and used Indian ground cumin/coriander:garam masala mixed together to form 2.5 teaspoons as I had no curry powder. Then I thought I should add a half a green chili as I like spice – and had quite a zing/spice to it. I just added brown sugar to my kids bowl the spice and they were fine.
Love this soup – your recipe made it so easy – thank you
Jyothi Rajesh
I’m so glad you loved the soup Janice.
Ravin kumar
I really like all the veggies. I will try at my home. Such a wonderful post. Thanks for sharing more update.
Sandy
Whss as t could I use instead of coconut milk? White beans?
Jyothi Rajesh
If you are asking if you can substitute white beans instead of coconut milk, no, it won’t be good substitution. You can either substitute coconut milk with full cream or half n half for diary options and for diary free options use almond milk or cashew milk. Or just leave out coconut milk. White bean will alter the texture and taste of the soup completely. I wouldn’t recommend that