Excellent recipe! Not too thick at all, as mentioned in other review. I thought the proportions were perfect. What I like even more is that this soup has a thick, creamy consistency, without using fatty creams like most other butternut squash soup recipes. Bonus! The squash can be a bit of a pain to peel and prepare, but the end result is totally worth it. An option would be to half the squash, scoop out the seeds, then cook it for a few minutes in the microwave to soften slightly. This would make peeling much easier. I used my immersion blender to whip everything up right in the pot. A minor detail, but step #2 and #3 should be reversed. You can cook the quinoa (step #3) while the squash is simmering so that everything is done at once. One slightly deviation I made was to only use 1 3/4 cup water to cook the quinoa (after rinsing it well to remove any bitterness!). In my experience, I prefer a slightly firmer texture to the quinoa, and when I use a full 2 cups it is slightly mushy. A tasty and healthy recipe overall, one that I'll be making again!
Not need to make any changes to recipe. It is a delicious soup!
Didn't have fresh ginger so I substituted 1/2 t. of ginger powder.
I made this with the traditional mire poix of onions celery carrots and few garlic cloves and the ginger and used a roasted garlic broth and nutmeg roasted butternut squash cooked everything together and puréed it all in my blender. I did not use the cumin in the seasoning or quinoa in this soup I dipped fresh French bread instead. Absolutely scrumptious.
Tried it but too thick needs less quinoa definitely takes much longer than 10 minutes to prepare. Probably 1/2 an hour getting squash ready
Cumin and squash were not a good combo in our opinion.
Topped with about 1/2 tsp of smoked paprika. Awesome and you can eat all you want and not worry.
This soup was amazing. With or without the quinoa.
Cooked my butternut squash in the crock pot and it made scooping the seeds and meat simple! Then I just puréed everything in my blender and put it in a pot. Didn't have fresh ginger so I used a small amount of candied ginger. It actually was quite good that way. Excellent recipe and one we will be using again! Yummm!
