Thomas Keller’s Butternut Squash Soup Recipe – Bouchon in Yountville
Butternut Squash Soup – Recipes and Wine
December through February is soup time around our house. We love Minestrone, Lentil, Tortilla & Black Bean, and Butternut Squash Soup. We have tried many Butternut Squash Soup recipes, and our favorite by a big margin is Thomas Keller’s Butternut Squash Soup with Brown Butter.
The Thomas Keller’s Butternut Squash Soup is a little more extra prep, but the results are a fantastic-tasting soup. The soup is good for a starter or a meal in itself. Thomas Keller is the famous chef and founder of the top Michelin-rated French Laundry Restaurant in Yountville. This recipe is from his Bouchon Restaurant, also in Yountville.
Bouchon Restaurant in Yountville
Thomas Keller’s Butternut Squash Soup with Brown Butter
Do you have herbs growing in your garden? You need fresh thyme, sage, parsley, bay leaves, and chives. The unique feature in this recipe is the Bouquet Garni. Using the green leaves of a leek, the herbs except for the chives are wrapped inside the leaves. The result is a beautiful fragrance of enticing herbs. Add nutmeg, fresh chives, and some creme fraiche, and the soup is delicious. The recipe calls for fresh Sage leaves roasted in cooking oil.
Most Butternut squash soup recipes call for dicing the squash into one-inch cubes and then roasting until soft. This recipe calls for a different way of cooking the squash. You’ll be able to use a package of Trader Joe’s already-cubed Butternut squash.
Here is a link to the complete Thomas Keller recipe on Food 52.
Watch this video, Making the Soup with Food 52
There are many other excellent Butternut squash recipes that are simpler but still delicious. I happen to think that the Thomas Keller recipe is the best-tasting Butternut squash soup around.
- Classic Butternut Squash Soup – Serious Eats
- Butternut Squash and Apple Soup – Ina Garten, Food Network
- Curried Butternut Squash Soup – The Minimalist Baker
Now for the biggest challenge in Thomas Keller’s Butternut Squash Soup, choosing which under $20 wine to pair with the soup. We tried several wines both white, Rosé, and red. Here is what we found.
White and Rosé Wines
- Pinot Gris or Pinot Grigio – Joel Gott Pinot Gris from Oregon
- Viognier/Chenin Blanc – Pine Ridge
- Rosé – Carol Shelton Wild Thing – buy it at the Safeway
Red Wines
- Kirkland Willamette Pinot Noir
- Grenache or Garnacha – the lighter in style, the better
- Barbera – Sobon from Sierra Foothills
- Sangiovese – from Italy’s Chianti region
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