Some of the slow cooker butternut squash aren’t just for butternut squash soup. There’s so much you can do in a crock pot with this versatile veggie.
This list does have several of the best butternut squash soup recipes, but you’ll also find recipes for sides like mashed butternut squash and cinnamon sugar butternut squash.
This veggie is tasty, and your recipe can bring out its sweetness or its savoriness. It’s wonderful with spice like cayenne.
If you’ve never tried to make butternut squash in the slow cooker, you may be surprised how much easier it is than on the stove top.
Just a quick note: never throw out the seeds. They taste a lot like pumpkin seeds, so you can always season and roast them for a snack.
Crockpot Butternut Squash Recipes
This is a very delicious substitute for masked potatoes. You can add in the herbs of your choice, with suggestions of cilantro, parsley, rosemary and thyme. Sage is also wonderful. Nutmeg and cinnamon would work well for a slightly sweet twist.
It's all the orange vegetables in one delicious pot! Butternut squash meets sweet potato and carrots. And it's so easy to make in the slow cooker.
Cook a whole butternut squash in your slow cooker. All you need to do for prep is cut it in half and chop off the top and bottom. When it's done, you can scoop out the insides and put in the spaghetti sauce and serve it as a bowl. Or you can turn it into a mash or add some seasoning and serve it as a side.
Butternut squash has a natural sweetness to it. This soup recipe brings that out with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, and just a little bit of brown sugar.
The slow cooker butternut squash soup is a little bit sweet and a little bit savory. It features, garlic, nutmeg, cinnamon, onion, and more as its seasonings. Great for warming up on a cool evening.
This is a veggie beef stew that incorporates all the hearty vegetables of the fall and winter seasons. The slow cooker leaves everything fork tender. You get a nice dose of healthy veggies in this one.
Miso adds a rich umami flavor to butternut squash soup. In this recipe, it's paired with the usual suspects in a butternut squash soup, with the addition of red pepper flakes and delicious toppings like green onions, toasted sesame seeds, or chili oil.
Butternut Squash Soup with Sweet Potatoes (Stovetop and Slow Cooker)
This soup recipe adds sweet potatoes for more richness and fresh ginger for added spice. You can top it with homemade croutons and/or cheese, herbs, pumpkin seeds, almond slivers, everything-but-the-bagel seasoning or even bacon bits.
Thie is a slightly spicy low carb version of butternut squash soup. It adds some cream cheese to make it satisfyingly rich.