Summery roasted butternut squash

Posted by petra08 on May 26, 2017 · 17 Comments 

We had a spell of summer lately and all our vegetables and herbs are growing like crazy. This might be the most exciting time of the year when we can finally start picking fresh produce even if it is just thinned out vegetables.

 

Looking at the garden made me want to cook something summery, using some of the produce. I bought a butternut squash to roast and went out in the garden and picked wild fennel, dill, baby lettuce leaves, nasturtium leaves and chive flowers for the dish.

 

Feta cheese baked butternut squash

preparation time 15 minutes 

cooking time 1 hr or until the butternut squash is soft 

oven 180C or 356F

serves 4

Ingredients

• 1 butternut squash, quartered and seeds removed
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 1/2 tsp sumac
• 1/2 tsp poppy seeds
• a pinch of chilli flakes
• olive oil

Topping 

• 1 pack, 200 gr or 7oz feta cheese, crumbled
• 1 leek, sliced
• 1 handful of cherry tomatoes
• 1/2 orange pepper, diced
• 1 small fennel, sliced thinly
• 1/2 red onion, chopped
• 1 tpsp pink peppercorns
• black pepper to taste

Garnish

• dill
• chive flowers
• wild fennel
• nasturtium leaves
• baby lettuce leaves
• chorizo fried crispy (optional)
• toasted sunsflower seeds

Start by cutting the butternut squash in to quaters. Make incisions in the solid part to make the butternut cook even. Add olive oil and spices.

 

 

Mix the topping and scatter over the butternut squash.

 

 

Put the butternut squash in the oven and bake until it is cooked through.

Pan fry the chorizo crispy with the sunflower seeds and drain on household tissue.

 

 

When the butternut squash is cooked and the topping crispy add the garnish.

 

 

 

 

I served the butternut squash with a cucumber raita. It was the first day of the year when we could eat outside. The dish did taste like summer and it is just the first of many.

 

I am bringing this to Angie’s Fiesta Friday. She has just been to the beach and there is no better place to be on a warm summer day! Her co hosts this week are Paula, Her Life is Love, and Lindy, Love in the Kitchen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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