Roasted Zucchini Soup

This Roasted Zucchini Soup is such a comforting, creamy soup recipe! With only a splash of cream and tons of zucchini, this soup is good for you too!

A Healthy, Comforting Soup Recipe

If you grow zucchini in your garden, you know when it’s zucchini season. Zucchini tends to overtake everything and before you know it you have more than you know what to do with.

That’s where this Roasted Zucchini Soup comes in. This soup recipe uses a TON of zucchini, like a lot. Zucchini is also a really budget friendly vegetable, so if you’re looking for a soup recipe to feed a crowd this is the one for you!

How Do You Make This Roasted Zucchini Soup?

You’re going to need a lot of zucchini for this recipe- it uses 12 cups of chopped zucchini. Two really large zucchini (like the torpedo size that you think are no good for anything) will get you the 12 cups. After you roast the zucchini, it turns into only about 5 or 6 cups so you really need a lot to start with.

I peeled the zucchini and chopped the zucchini up into pieces about the size shown below. Then I seasoned with salt and pepper and tossed with a little olive oil and put the trays in the oven to roast 35 minutes. You’re definitely going to need two baking sheets so you don’t over crowd your pans.

While the zucchini is roasting, you can start cooking a chopped onion, carrot, jalapeño and garlic cloves in a large stock pot with some olive oil. Then after about 15 minutes you can add in a bay leaf and some seasonings then add in the chicken broth and the roasted zucchini.

I got out the stick blender and started blending until the soup was smooth. This might look easy to you – it is not. This was my first time “stick blending” and I’ll tell you, hot soup was spitting out at me everywhere, the wife thought it was all pretty funny. I guess I was going a little too fast…next time I’ll slow it down.

All that’s left to do is add the cream and test for seasonings. Well, there are the croutons to talk about…We just so happened to have a loaf of french bread laying around that we hadn’t gotten around to eating in a couple of days, so instead of tossing it we made croutons for the soup. I’m not sure why I’d ever throw away two day old bread again – homemade croutons are amazing – especially in this Roasted Zucchini Soup!

Looking For More Soup Recipes?

• Pork Egg Roll Soup
• Beefy Tomato Soup
• Stove Top Split Pea Soup
• Creamy Potato Soup with Italian Sausage

Roasted Zucchini Soup

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• Author: Dan
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 35 minutes
• Total Time: 50 minutes
• Yield: 8 Servings 1x

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A hearty, comforting soup recipe that’s good for you too!

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Ingredients

For the Roasted Zucchini

• 12 cups diced zucchini (2 extra large zucchini or about 6 small zucchini)
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 cup olive oil, divided

For the soup

• 1 T. olive oil
• 1 T. butter
• 1 onion, diced
• 1/2 of a jalapeno, seeded and diced (if you like it a little spicier you can throw in the whole thing)
• 2 carrots, peeled and diced
• 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
• 1/2 t. salt
• 1/4 t. pepper
• 1/2 t. cumin
• 1 bay leaf
• 4 c. chicken stock
• 1 c. water
• 1/4 c. heavy cream

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Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 425 degrees.
2. Spray two baking sheets with cooking spray and divide the copped zucchini between the pans.
3. Drizzle half of the olive oil onto each baking sheet, half of the salt and half of the pepper. Toss the zucchini to coat.
4. Roast for 35 minutes, turning once halfway between cooking. While the zucchini is roasting you can start the soup.
5. In a large stock pot, add the oil and butter over medium-high heat.
6. Add in the diced onion, garlic, jalapeño and carrot. Cook for 15 minutes until the vegetables are soft.
7. Add in the salt, pepper and cumin, and bay leaf and cook for another 10 minutes.
8. Next add the chicken stock and the roasted zucchini and simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes.
9. Remove the bay leaf, then blend the soup with a stick blender until smooth.
10. Stir in the cream a taste for seasonings.

• Category: Soup
• Method: Stove Top
• Cuisine: American

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