Ideas for Butternut Squash please

Baggs

Chop, boil, mash with coconut milk. Eat with whatever you think will go with it. We like it with stir-fried pork, onions and pine nuts.

Make soup with it as the main ingredient and add whatever else (e.g. leftovers in the freezer) you've got kicking about. Summer soup – some o' this and some o' that 😉

Butternut soup made with coconut milk is lovely. Add a little chilli if you like it.

Roasted is very good, you don't need to peel and chop into small chunks if the skin is a bit tough, just cut into quarters or wedges and toast like thst.

In a stir fry.

It does freeze well. Mistakenly bought instead of sweet potato, I know how can that happen, so I chopped up and put in freezer. I have roasted some.

Cooked butternut freezes very well. Can use it for soup, pumpkin fritters, pumpkin loaf. Cubed butternut is lovely cooked with a sprinkling of cinnamon and sugar, eaten as a veg.

I make butternut squash soup in my soup maker, with onions fried first, seasoning , and sometimes add a few red lentils (very few - they do expand!) and it makes really nice soup. You don't have to have a soup maker - but it helps. It would freeze.

I would suggest the compost. Not a fan!

Dogsjj

What is the easiest way to peel Butternut squash? I have very arthritic hands and last time I was nearly in tears. Thank you for any suggestions.

I find that it's very easy to peel with a potato peeler. The peel is actually quite thin.

But perhaps even a potato peeler is difficult with arthritis.

I sometimes make mine into ‘chips’ and cover them with a spot of curry powder or mixed herbs. Salt and cook in oven. Delicious!

I find the easiest was to peel a butternut squash is to prick it with a fork several times and then microwave it for six or seven minutes. It is then easy to peel.

Dogsjj

What is the easiest way to peel Butternut squash? I have very arthritic hands and last time I was nearly in tears. Thank you for any suggestions.

Butternut squash skin gets very soft if cooked without salt. If roasted, a membrane peels off; if stewed (salt added after cooking), it just disappears.

What I was brought up with was loads of squash.
One favourite dish is to fry onion, with/out bits of bacon, add a tomato or two or a tin, then gently add the squash in cubes. A tiny bit of water, stew gently until soft.
Serve with rice.
What I do with what’s left, is to make a cheese sauce, oven, eat… scumptious!

Dogsjj
Buy frozen chunks!

What is the easiest way to peel Butternut squash? I have very arthritic hands and last time I was nearly in tears. Thank you for any suggestions.

I just cut it into chunks with a few other bits and spices and bung it in the soup maker, half an hour later there's a delicious soup ready!

They are nice in Currys , Thai & Indian , lovely with pasta , boiled and mashed with Blue cheese then mixed through pasta. ( use a bit of pasta water to loosen it if it too thick. Also I love it roasted and mixed with Rocket, dressed with olive oil and balsamic as a different salad. If you have a glut of tomatoes as well you can roast them both for Soup . Loads of recipes on BBC Good Food page.

growstuff

Yes, they freeze well, although they go a bit soft. I don't like to roast frozen butternut squash, but it's fine for soup or curry.

Butternut squash soup is one of my favorite soups.

peel and cube squash and put into a large soup pot. Add the following ingredients.

1 large or 2 small onions diced
2-3 potatoes cubed
1-4 cloves of garlic (To your taste)
1 can of chicken stock (if your squash is really big maybe more)
salt and pepper to taste. I like a tiny bit of chili pepper too
1tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cloves
Pinch of ginger

Cook low and slow until everything is very soft. Good in a crock pot. When everything is soft either blend until smooth or emulsifier until smooth add a tiny bit more water if to thick.

I like mine with a bit of sausage sliced thin and a small spoon of sour cream.

OKAY now I need to find one of these

Chop and freeze. It freezes very well and use over the winter in soups casseroles and stews.

Chop, boil, mash with coconut milk. Eat with whatever you think will go with it. We like it with stir-fried pork, onions and pine nuts.

Make soup with it as the main ingredient and add whatever else (e.g. leftovers in the freezer) you've got kicking about. Summer soup – some o' this and some o' that 😉

Being a bit of a #lazygran I sometimes buy the ready prepared slices of BNS you can buy in the supermarket. I cook these in my air fryer as an alternative to potatoes.
Leftover ones I add to salads - lovely with feta cheese and walnuts.
Cut them into smaller slices and add to other veggies in a stir fry.
Nice added to beefy type casseroles.

There are recipes for it stuffed with rice too:

www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/vegetarian/stuffed-butternut-squash-with-feta/

Cut in half lengthwise, scrape out seeds. Fill the hollow with a tomato and onion sauce and black lentils. Drizzle with olive oil. Roast. Crumble feta on top towards the end. Or fill with left over bolognaise and grate cheddar on top. Half is enough for a meal for me,

Jamie Oliver uses it as a layer in bolognaise.

I take the peel off with a potato peeler, or I leave it on, it’s amazing how it all but disappears once cooked.

Freeze in cubes. Soup. Risotto. With pasta. On pizza. Roasted.

Aely

Is there a simple recipe for making the soup? The ones I found on t'internet look complicated and take hours. I have to admit, I love tinnned Butternut soup but it doesn't seem to be avaailable a lot of the time, so making my own would be good.

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/roasted_butternut_squash_10281

I must admit I don't always bother roasting it first (because I'm stingy and don't want to use my oven) - the flavour is possibly not quite so good, but it's still tasty.

If you don't like ginger, you could add some other spice. I'm afraid my soups are usually made with whatever I have and always end up a bit different from the last batch.

Yes, they freeze well, although they go a bit soft. I don't like to roast frozen butternut squash, but it's fine for soup or curry.

Is there a simple recipe for making the soup? The ones I found on t'internet look complicated and take hours. I have to admit, I love tinnned Butternut soup but it doesn't seem to be avaailable a lot of the time, so making my own would be good.

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