Miso–Butternut Squash Soup Recipe | Epicurious

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Miso butternut soup in a bowl with chili crisp drizzle.

Joseph De Leo

This simple soup packs a lot of flavor thanks to miso and ginger in the base, plus punchy finishers like lemon juice, cilantro, and chili crisp. This cozy vegetarian weeknight dinner starts out as the same butternut squash purée used in Cod With Miso–Butternut Squash Sauce, so if you’d like to make both recipes, simply double the purée.

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