Cheap and Easy Vegetarian Recipe: Butternut Squash Soup

Tasty Butternut Squash Soup

Butternut Squash Soup with Bread Roll

Homemade soups are superb value in so many ways, They are easy to make, they are cheap to make, they are full of nutritious goodness and you can vary them every time you make them.  This one for Butternut Squash is one of my favourites.  It cost me only £1.59 for a full pot to serve 4 people. At only 136 calories per portion this is another recipe ideal for your fasting days on the 5:2 diet. 

How to Make a Tasty Squash Soup

I'm a lazy sort of cook so I try to keep things simple: This makes a beautifully smooth and tasty soup. The hardest part is cutting up the butternut squash but I've found if I cut it into rings first then peel it, it is much easier. 

Approximate Preparation and Cooking Time

Prep time: 15 min

Cook time: 40 min

Ready in: 55 min

Yields: serves 4

Ingredients for Homemade Butternut Squash Soup

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 medium onion - diced

Butternut squash - diced

2 potato - diced

2 cloves garlic

2 vegetable stock cubes and 1 & half pint water

or 1 & half pint vegetable stock/ broth

black pepper

Method: 

In a large pan, heat the olive oil

Cook diced onion until transparent

Add crushed garlic, diced squash and potato

Cook for one minute

Add stock and seasoning

Bring to the boil

Simmer for 30-40 minutes until vegetables are soft

Remove from heat,

Blend using hand-blender to a smooth consistency

If you like to make your soup creamy, add quarter pint of milk and heat gently

Serve and enjoy

Nutruition and Cost 

Butternut Squash Soup
ingredient	calories	fat	protein	carb	fibre	vits	cost
Small Butternut Squash	225	0	5g	58g	10g	Vit A, Vit C, Vit B complex, Calcium, Iron, potassium, magnesium	90p
potato	300	1g	4g	32g	5g	Vit C, Calcium, Potassium, Vit B6	40p
onion	7	0	1g	16g	2g	Vit C, manganese, potassium, Vit B6	10p
garlic	3	0	2g			Vit C, Calcium, Manganese, phosphorus, selenium, Vit B6	5p
Stock	10	0.6g	0.5g	2g	1.7g		14p
Per 4 servings	545	1.6g	12.5g	108g	17g		£1.59
Per portion	136		3.1g	27g	4g		39p