Butternut squash?????

Tiffany_Aching

From Thursday Aldi have butternut squash as part of their 'Super Six' offers. Does anyone have any (polite ) ideas as to what I could do with a butternut squash?

I know that you can roast them - what sort of herbs would you add for flavour if roasting? Any other ideas?

Thanks

chrisfreelander54

We roast our butternut squash with mixed herbs, usually whith other veg for a Sunday roast.

We have also made butternut squash and sweet potato soup, mmmmmm.

Just the other day I made a chunky veg curry using butternut squash, onions, corgettes, califlour, and mushrooms, this I must say was really nice, even our DD12 & DS6 wolfed it back, and because they veg was chunky the didn't even realise the curry was meat free.

Butternut and sweet potato soup: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2888/butternut-squash-casserole-

Veg curry: http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/vegetable-curry

HTH
Chris.

Soworried

We love them curried as well. When we roast them we add spices as hot as you like.

We also mash them once they have been roasted and mix with mashed potato to top shephards pie or cottage pies. They make a great roasted pasta dish and also a chunky vegetable casserole.

I'm going to grab 2 tomorrow:j

JulieGeorgiana

My favourite is spicy butternut squash soup... Absolutely a Favourate here!

Wish we had an ALDI anywhere near us

Tiffany_Aching

Fantastic replies chrisfreelander54 and Soworried - thank you so much.

Definitely going to give some of the above ideas a go

Tiffany_Aching

Thank you JulieGeorgiana, it sounds like a nice, spicy, curried butternut squash soup made in the slow cooker will be an easy way to try my first butternut squash.

I've never tried one of these before and I'm looking forward to trying out some of the above ideas

fairtrade

This might give you some ideas:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/21/ten-best-recipes-butternut-squash

debtdawg

We mash it with sweet potato for an accompaniment to meals.

Cook it in soup with carrots and red pepper.

Add it diced up to dishes such as cottage pie to bulk up the meat section.

kacie

I enjoy it as soups, mashed and risottos, I keep planning to roast it, but always end up doing other things with it!

McpPsl

We roast our Butternut Squash using this recipe but swapping the Aubergine for Butternut Squash.

Also we make a Butternut Squash risotto.

Hope this helps

Enjoy.