Butternut Squash Bisque
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This cozy, comforting roasted butternut squash bisque is a perfect well-rounded soup during the fall season!
I know that we’ve officially entered the fall season but sometimes I feel like we’re still right in the middle of the summer. It gets as high as 81 degrees during the afternoon here in the Bay Area and since we’re on the second floor, the house hovers around the 90 degree zone during the day time. I’ve been having major heat tantrums but I’m hoping this will all subside in the next week or so. If not, I’ll have to spend a couple hundred bucks on an air conditioner because heat and I do not go well together.
But even if I’m sweating puddles during the day, that still won’t stop me from making this epic butternut squash bisque from Jackie at The Beeroness. I’m incredibly grateful to call her a dear friend of mine, and I am so honored to review her new book, The Craft Beer Cookbook. I’ve been making Jackie’s recipes for years now, and they have NEVER been a disappointment.
The Craft Beer Cookbook consists of 9 amazing chapters, from breakfast foods to breads to desserts – something for everyone in your family. And along with her own gorgeous photography, all of her recipes include easy directions for the everyday home cook. But my absolute favorite part about her book is how she includes tips on which kind of brew would work best for every single recipe! This is perfect for a beer-newbie like me, and I can finally choose the right brew without messing up the recipe!
Now with Jackie’s helpful tips, I used an amber ale for this bisque, which brought out such amazing flavor, beautifully complementing the creamy notes of the goat cheese and crunchy, refreshing bites of the pomegranate seeds. It’s an incredibly hearty, filling soup with so much flavor, perfect for a cold fall night, or a 90 degree summer day that I’ve been having!
And now you all have a chance to win Jackie’s book to make all of her fail-proof beer recipes! But even if you don’t win, I highly suggest purchasing your own copy – this book is a must on your cookbook shelf!
For a chance to win, be sure to enter through the rafflecopter below. Good luck!
Giveaway ends on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. Pacific time. The winner will be selected by random.org and contacted by email. If there is no response after 48 hours, another winner will be selected. Open to US residents only.
Butternut Squash Bisque
Ingredients
- 1 medium butternut squash, peeled, seeded and chopped
- 6 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 2 cloves garlic, pressed
- 2 shallots, thinly sliced
- 2 cups vegetable broth, or more to taste
- 1 cup red ale
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup crumbled goat cheese, for serving
- ½ cup pomegranate seeds, for serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place butternut squash onto prepared baking sheet. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil and gently toss to combine. Place into oven and roast until softened and cooked through, about 40 minutes.
- Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add garlic and shallots, and cook, stirring occasionally, until caramelized, about 15-20 minutes. Stir in vegetable broth and red ale and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and stir in butternut squash, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and heavy cream. Puree with an immersion blender; season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Return to heat and bring to a simmer until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Add more vegetable broth until desired consistency is reached.
- Serve immediately, garnished with goat cheese and pomegranate seeds.
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Disclosure: This giveaway is sponsored by F+W Media. All opinions expressed are my own.
AMAZING. Favorite soup because it has a little kick you wouldn’t expect. So damn good.
I have tried several PF Chang lettuce wrap recipes, and the Damn Delicious is my favorite. I find that I save a lot of your recipes to Pinterest and always check there first for a new recipe to try. I just love Butters so cute and the perfect name!
I just made the butternut squash bisque and the beer was honestly too overwhelming. There was no subtleties, all I could taste was beer mixed with squash, pretty disappointed. Is there any way I could Doctor this soup to take that flavor away?.. I don’t want to waste the whole batch.
Have you tried adding more broth?
Lovely soup – the cayenne was the right seasoning. Thanks!
Chocolate Stout Cake With Porter Ganache & Beer Brown Sugar Buttercream
Mile High Chocolate Stout Pie
That cookbook looks amazing! I’d love to try those crabcakes mentioned on the cover.
Gotta try the beer burger buns
I think the salted beer caramel corn looks amazing!
I will be making this for family dinner Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend…..cant wait… beer and food and family… sounds perfect
This soup. I need this in my life stat.
Stout Braised Pulled Pork Chili
I’ve got the Beeroness’s One Hour Rosemary Beer Pizza Dough marked to try for my next pizza night. Thanks for introducing me to her blog!
I love the Beer Ricotta from her site!
Wow, this is looking seriously delicious! I just know my husband is going to love this 🙂
Sweet potato beer biscuits are her best recipe 🙂 So yum and unique for a biscuit!
I have to say my fave Beeroness recipe is her beer cheese fondue! But honestly I’ve never made a recipe of hers I didn’t like 🙂
That is seriously gorgeous soup!
Wow, since i have to pick just one, the beer cheese rolls sounds delish!! BUT I could seriously make and devour any of them!
Found your blog through The Beeroness Facebook page. Looks good, thanks
pa right now my favorite recipe is the salted beer caramel corn, but the garlic beer cheese rolls look to become our favorite.
Love the soup photos. I can taste the soup from here. Cheese and beer always pair nicely in my book!
Sounds good, as does the book. We have several pumpkins from the garden that could work in place of the squash.
My two favorite fall soups are beer cheese and butternut bisque- so I’m pretty stoked about this recipe! I love adding beer to soups and stews, it gives it such a deep flavor. Very much looking to check out the craft beer recipe book- it sounds right up my alley!
My favorite Beeroness recipe is the Sriracha Stout BBQ sauce. It’s soo good made with Tallgrass Buffalo Sweat.
Salted beer caramel corn but the soup sounds delish!
Chocolate Stout Cake!
Love the Beeroness recipe for Chipotle Stout Braised Beef Tacos With Fresh Pico De Gallo!
My favorite is the Honey Beer Biscuits with Strawberry Belgian Ale Sauce.
The Epic Chocolate Stout Cake!!
This soup sounds so good, I love anything butternut squash and pomegranate seeds make a great topper!
This would be a great book to have!
I love them all but the beer pickled jalapenos are amazing!
This look gorgeous- I’m really into having soups that have texture and this definitely fits what I’m looking for, and the photos are just gorgeous!
I’m a big fan of the Epic Chocolate Stout Cake with Chocolate Bourbon Sour Cream Frosting recipe.
My favorite Beeroness recipe is the Hefeweizen Honey Rolls. Made them for Thanksgiving last year and they are going to become a family tradition! One of the best bread products I’ve ever put in my mouth.
Moroccan Stout Chicken sounds delicious!
I adore Jackie! Her cookbook looks off the charts!! Oh, and this bisque, totes making!!
They all look wonderful, I’m a homebrewer and would love to make all of them.
The garlic beer cheese rolls!
I’m all about butternut squash this fall! This looks so delish and colorful – Just Beautiful!!!
The Beer Caramelized Mushroom Gorgonzola Tart is amazing!!
Looks like my intake of meat and wild game will have to increase now that I can marry them to tasty beers! Thanks!
I think that the Beer Caramelized Mushroom Gorgonzola Tart sounds good!
The soup looks great, but since I’ve got a bread fetish, I have to say that the beer burger buns look pretty darned good.
Thank you so much my lovely friend! You’re the best, I heart you so hard right now.
The Moroccan Stout Chicken looks delish!
Huge congrats to Jackie on her book! It looks amazing and I can’t wait to get my copy! This bisque sounds fabulous! Pinning!
My favorite recipe of the Beeroness is definitely the Vanilla Bean Smoked Porter French Toast.
The Epic Chocolate Stout Cake with Chocolate Bourbon Sour Cream Frosting sounds amazing!!
My favorite recipe is the Beer Caramelized Mushroom Gorgonzola Tart. Sounds amazing!
That is one incredibly beautiful bowl of yumminess!
All of Jackie’s recipes are amazing… I don’t know where to start! I’m thinking her Flourless Chocolate Stout Cake should happen, SOON!
Her oatmeal stout french toast changed my life! Love all her recipes!
Love this Butternut Squash Bisque, your Le Creuset mini bowls and Jackie! Totally want to win this cookbook. don’t know about my fave .. there are so many. . but I absolutely want to make her recent Garlic Beer Cheese Rolls for sure!!
Stout Braised Pulled Pork Chili! Sounds amazing!
I made Jackie’s Grilled Beer & Buttermilk Chicken with Sriracha Glaze for my family and it was a major success. Best grilled chicken I’ve ever had!
The Mediterranean Beer Braised Pork Burgers look amazing! I might even have to try the Homemade Beer Burger Buns to go with it! Yum!
Chipotle Stout Sloppy Joe’s Sliders is my favorite recipe.
okay so I saw the Garlic Beer Cheese Rolls on friday and made them on Saturday with some smoked chicken wings. DAMN tasty
salted beer caramel corn sounds incredible!
The Pub Cookies sound delicious!
So weird, I tasted this soup last night at her first stop on the book tour, it was soooo good! You could taste all of the flavors and then a little bite from the pomegranates! Loved it.
Such a gorgeous soup and your photography just amazes! I recently made some soup and posted it and sometimes the glare for me is just so hard to manage. Yours is dead-on perfection! And congrats to Jackie! My fave recipes of hers are her yeasted breads. Love what she does with the flavors/combos.
You are too sweet, Averie! The glare was pretty bad on my end but thank goodness for LightRoom!