(sigh) Butternut squash in my veg box. What can I do with it?

[FlouncingMintyy]

Can't get excited about squash, pumpkin, courgette etc. I have never ever been tempted to try a squash soup for eg. Can anyone suggest a tempting/slightly interesting recipe?

Don't have a baby or toddler in the house, btw.

Tia

Cut into thick slices and roast a chicken on top of the squash and a few unpeeled garlic cloves and thyme. Eat some of the squash with the roast, and make soup with the rest plus some chicken stock.

I second the recommendation for HFW's squash and chickpea stew. it's lush.

Tonight I'm making a Thai curry with one. Chop onion and garlic, cook, add thai curry paste, stir in deseeded and chopped squash, add tin of coconut milk, cook til tender, finish with fish sauce, lime juice and coriander, serve with rice.

Another one of my favourite easy meals is chucking bite size pieces of squash in a roasting tray with onion wedges, chopped up sausages, rosemary and squashed garlic cloves, toss in oil and roast for about 40 mins.

Hungry now

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7767/butternut-squash-and-sage-risotto

This is yummy - if you don't want it to be meat free you could fry off some pancetta cubes or lardons and sprinkle through.

Chilli. Cook with chorizo, chilli, tinned toms, red peppers and beans serve with coriander, dollop of sour cream and crusty bread.

One of my favourite salads, with roasted pumpkin (butternut is fine), rocket, olives, feta and pumpkin seeds

Recipe here: cuisine.co.nz/cuisine.nsf/recipes/roasted-pumpkin-feta-salad-on-toast?Opendocument&HighLight=2,Pumpkin,feta,salas

Hope link works, if not put pumpkin and feta as search terms in the recipe search box

Roast it put it in a risotto with blue cheese or parmesan delish

I love them but can never be bothered to peel.
Wish you could buy ready-peeled ones!

Cake!!! I have tried googling Harry Eastman's recipes to no avail but her Red Velvet and Chocolate Heartache recipe book has amazing cake recipes swapping butter for vegetables (the best ones have squash in!)

Cripes, you only need to open your mouth to offend someone on Mumsnet these days!

Google Jamie Oliver's jools favorite beef stew. It has butternut in and I thought it was random but it gives a very slight sweetness and is delicious.

I use the same risotto recipe as newyearoldmum but I leave out the fried sage leaves. I love it but DH doesn't, he misses the meat.

this is extraordinarily delicious and not at all faffy.

Goodness, I don't think I've ever had such a fruitful thread before. Thanks for all the replies. Will try and look at my squash in a different light!

I second the risotto - fry in a mixture of oil and butter with some parsley, then add in Richard, a glass of white wine or vermouth and stock. At then and add shed loads Parmesan and a pile of butter right at the end!

Jamie oliver also has a recipe for butternut squash muffins - very similar to carrot cake - and they seems to disappear quickly!

For those who find peeling a faff, HFW
roasting with skin on and eating the lot. Apparently skin goes chewy and delicious _ never been brave enough to try it though!

Lol @ Richard :) Is that Richard Rice?

Ps roast with skin on is lush, roast with skin off, meh.

peel (ouch) roast with a tiny bit of oil, coconut milk, chiili flakes and onions, salt and pepper.

Ridonkulously good. Like the easier curry ever.

Oh god no mintyy, throw the squash away, they are loathsome.

Firstly I hate the name (it sounds like it was dreamt up by the vegetable marketing board in the 80s) and secondly I cannot stand the taste of any squashes, especially butternuts and pumpkins.

PLUS have you ever looked inside a pumpkin? Fucking scary.

lol at Richard.

Is that Richard Madeley?

Or Richard III