How to Make Butternut Squash Soup with Rosemary & Thyme
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SERVINGS:
4
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PREP TIME:
20 MINUTES
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COOK TIME:
20 MINUTES
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SKILL LEVEL:
EASY
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INGREDIENTS
SKILL LEVEL: EASY
1/2 c | |
2 tbsp | |
4 c | |
2 clove | |
1/4 tsp | |
1/4 tsp | |
1/4 tsp | |
1/4 tsp | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Begin by sauteing the onions in the olive oil. When the onions begin to brown, add the garlic. Allow the garlic to cook with the onions for another few minutes. Next, add all of the remaining ingredients, cover with water, and bring to a boil. Cook until the butternut squash is tender - about 20 minutes. Allow the soup to cool a bit before transferring it to a blender. Blend at medium speed in intervals, venting any steam that accrues during the process. Blend until creamy and smooth. Serve and garnish with a sprinkle of fresh thyme and cracked black pepper.
For an additional skin tonifying quality, add a pinch of turmeric.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Something shifts in the late summer to early autumn air, and you find yourself craving more grounding and heavy foods. Pumpkin pie spices begin appearing on end caps at your local grocery store and in creamy lattes in your hometown coffee shops. You feel a need to combat the movement of the season, and changes in the air, with warm drinks and soups that make you feel held and cozy, nourished and rooted within yourself as the world around you rapidly transforms before your eyes.
This naturally creamy Butternut Squash Soup With Rosemary & Thyme grounds and nourishes your body and soul alike. The soft orange color is reminiscent of the fall leaves that are beginning to appear in treetops as the days shorten, while reminding us of the warm rays of the late summer sun that now feels like a far away dream, dropping from mind with the humidity.
The addition of mineral salt and sweetly cooked, caramelized garlic and onion further grounds the shifting energies of the mind with a sleepy, satisfying, tamasic, effect. Black pepper, rosemary and thyme further enhance the warming qualities of this recipe, rounding out the heaviness with the high notes of aromatic spices, while the rosemary lends a rustic feel to the sweet, orange butternut squash. Add enough black pepper and rosemary to give the butternut squash a warm feel that will help drive the sweet nourishing ojas of the squash to the whole body.
If you experience dry skin this time of year, the pairing of turmeric with the nourishing butternut squash can make for a great skin tonic.
With the nutritive squash blending with the warming, lung penetrating, and antimicrobial actions of the herbs and spices, this recipe comes just in the nick of time. It will build up your reserves to prevent respiratory viruses that awaken during this time of year.
WHAT IS BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP WITH ROSEMARY & THYME?
Rosemary lends a rustic feel to the sweet, orange butternut squash.
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