Squash recipes - 47 recipes
Butternut squash, similar to pumpkin, is a winter squash and can be baked, roasted, stuffed or puréed to make soup and its sweet flavour and deep orange colour is perfect for sweet recipes too including butternut bread and muffins.
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Butternut squash cake with jam
By parnships, If The Choux Fits
A butternut squash winter spiced cake with butternut squash-ginger jam
- 275g all purposes flour
- 650g caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 350ml vegetable oil
- pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate doda
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 700g butternut squash
- 50g fresh ginger (ground)
- 300g cream cheese
- 200g icing sugar
Raw pumpkin (ish) pie
By elliebed, The Boo, The Bear and the goji berries
A raw food twist on the classic pumpkin pie
- For the base:
- 1 cup of walnuts
- 1/4 cup of pumpkin seeds
- 7 meejool dates, pitted
- Pinch of himalayan or fine sea salt
- For the filling: Set 1:
- 2 cups of cubed squash (I used butternut)
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- Pinch of himalayan sea salt
- 1/4 cup maple syrup (you could use raw honey or yacon syrup)
- For the filling: Set 2:
- 1 cup of cashew nuts soaked overnight and drained
- Zest of 1 lime
- Juice of two big limes (3 smaller)
- 1 cup of nut milk- I used a mix of homemade cashew and hemp milk
- The seeds of 1 vanilla pod or 1/4 tsp alcohol and sugar free vanilla extract
- Just over 1/4 cup of melted coconut oil- around 85ml
Beef - A Little Moroccan Magic
By Keith Bradbury, FROM ALFREDO'S WITH LOVE...
Hereis my version of a Morrocan dish using fabulously underrated shin beef – mine was from those lovely people at...
- 750 gm shin beef fat trimmed off and cut into serious cubes
- 2 small onions chopped
- Bunch of fresh coriander
- Half a butternut squash peeled and cubed
- 400 gm tin chickpeas
- 400 gm tin chopped tomatoes
- 1 tbsp of tomato sauce
- 600 ml of chicken or vegetable stock
- Olive oil
- Spice mix
- 1 tbsp garam masala
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp ground cumin – I crushed cumin seeds in a mortar
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 1 tbsp paprika
- Salt and black pepper
Gratin Christophine (Chayote Squash Recipe)
By Laurapackham
Whether it's called 'chayote' in English, 'christophine' in French or 'Trái Su Su' in Vietnamese, the vegetable is...
- 3 white cristophines (chayotes)
- 1 tbsp coriander
- 1 clove of garlic chopped
- 2 white onions chopped
- 1 red pepper
- 6 sheets of filo paper
- 10cl milk
- 10cl coconut milk
- 10cl of cooking of the cristophines
- 20g butter
- 20g cornstarch
- 1 tsp Creole spices
- 100g of goat cheese
- Salt, pepper
- Olive oil
Veal chop with mushrooms, pumpkin and rosemary
By Gwen
Wash the dried mushrooms and soak them in 20 cl of warm water for at least half an hour
Pork - Cumin Roasted and Fried Squash and Cannellini Beans
By Keith Bradbury, FROM ALFREDO'S WITH LOVE...
I reckon this is a dish I could eat a lot of, and on its own
- 1 butternut squash
- 8 baby new potatoes
- 2 tablespoons of cumin seeds
- 4 halved long shallots
- 400gm tin of drained cannellini beans
- Pinch of a garam masala mix
- 125gm of vegetable stock
- 1 tablespoon of crème fraîche
- Black pepper
- Olive oil
Squash and sweet potato soup
By Nancy29
A warming dish for lunch or supper
- 1 butternut squash
- 1 large or 2 medium sweet potatoes
- 1 onion
- chicken stock
- dessertspoon of mild curry powder or moroccan spices
Roast butternut squash with chilli mince
By Charlotte Allen
Preheat oven to Gas Mark 6/200°C/fan oven 180°C
- 1 portion(s) (large) Butternut Squash, halved lengthways and deseeded
- 250 g Lean Beef Mince (10% fat), cooked
- 1 small Onion
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 tablespoons (level)
- Tomato Purèe
- 1 individual Chilli, deseeded and finely sliced
- 2 tablespoons Coriander
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1/8 teaspoons Black Pepper, freshly ground
Hot squash
By angieburgess5
Family Recipe Any day recipe
- An Onion
- 1 or 2 seasonal squash
- 2 Pints of Water
- 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg
- Clove of garlic
- Parsley or mint
- Knob of butter
- Serve with
- Bread and Cheese (optional)
Pumpkin pie
By Vincent
Make the pastry. Butter a tart tin and place the pastry in the tin
- Pastry:
- - 125g of flour
- - 60g butter
- - 1 yolk
- - 1 cup of water
- Filling:
- - 150g of pumpkin puree
- - 35g of cream
- - 1 egg
- - Cinnamon
- - Cloves
- - Nutmeg
- - Salt
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Roast Squash with Pear and Kiwi...
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tsp Panch pooran mix (1tsp fenugreek, 1 tsp poppy seed, 1 tsp black mustard seed, 1 tsp fennel, 1 tsp cumin seeds)
- 2 tsp coriander seeds - crushed
- 4 garlic cloves - crushed and chopped
- 1 tsp dried red chilli flakes
- 3cm fresh ginger root - sliced
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- 200ml lemon juice or vinegar
- 2 tsp salt
- 8 pears - skins remaining cored & cut into chunks
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Approved byThe Chef Chicken and Pancetta Salad
- 4 chicken breast
- 1/2 a butternut squash
- 4 or 5 sweet potatoes
- 2 pack of pancetta
- 1 pack of mixed salad leaves
- 1 bunch of asparagus
- 1 punnet of mushrooms
- 1/2 jar sundried tomatoes
- 1/4 jar of green pesto
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Bucnica (Squash Cottage Cheese...
- Dough:
- 400 g (0.9 lb) flour
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 – 1½ cup lukewarm water
- FILLING:
- 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) summer squash, grated
- salt
- 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) cottage cheese
- 1 cup sour cream
- 50 g (1.7 oz) butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- Topping:
- 1 egg
- 1 cup sour cream
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Butternut squash and fennel soup
- 1 butternut squash about 1.5 kg or 3 lb, peeled and cut into pieces about 2.5 cm
- 1/2 fennel bulb, sliced
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 625 ml chicken stock (home-made, of course!)
- 250 to 500 ml of cider or white wine (Riesling, preferably)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tbsp fresh thyme, finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp white wine vinegar
- Salt and pepper
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Butternut squash mash with onion...
- For the mash
- 1 medium butternut squash
- 70 gr butter
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- goats cheese
- For the jam
- 3 big red onions
- 2 red peppers
- 1 green chilli
- 50 ml sherry
- 100 gr brown sugar
- 2 rosemary sticks
- 2 tbsp olive oil
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Stuffed butternut squash
- 1kg butternut squash (quite ripe so the flesh is not too hard)
- 300g minced beef
- 60g rice (I used Thai rice)
- 1 onion
- grated cheese (2 handfuls)
- 1 beef stock cube dissolved in 100 ml hot water
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
- oil
- salt and pepper
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Creamy squash soup
- 1 kg pumpkin or marrow cut into chunks
- 5 Laughing Cow cheese portions
- 2 cubes of chicken stock
- water
- salt & pepper
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