Butternut Squash Recipes

10 Best Butternut Squash Recipes

Our best butternut squash recipes that are neither soup nor lasagne. The butternut squash is such a versatile vegetable and we love it for making innovative and inexpensive dishes.

Ottolenghi Recipes

We adore Ottolenghi’s Plenty book. We have so many recipes tagged and it gets used at least once a week. He’s a whizz when it comes to middle eastern ways of using butternut squash. We have never been disappointed.

Yotam Ottolenghi Plenty Book

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty

One of the best books for innovative vegetarian recipes. Buy the hardback. It is worth it for the beautiful photography.
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ottolenghi crusted pumpkin wedges

Ottolenghi Crusted Pumpkin Wedges

One of our favourite recipes from Plenty which we found online at The Seasonal Veg Head.
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Ottolenghi Butternut squash with ginger tomatoes and lime yoghurt

Ottolenghi Butternut squash with ginger tomatoes and lime yoghurt

Roasted butternut squash with the lime yoghurt and warm, ginger oven-dried tomatoes are quite a combination.
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ottolenghi butternut squash salad

Ottolenghi roast butternut squash and red onion with tahini and za’atar

We make our version of this recipe with our two ingredient BBQ flatbreads. This might look like a “salad” but, my heavens, the taste profile is just so amazing. It will please both vegetarians and meat eaters.
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delicious. Magazine Recipes

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Creamy chicken and butternut squash gratin

Creamy chicken and butternut squash gratin

I omitted the chicken in this recipe because I was serving it as a side for turkey at Christmas. However, I adore this recipe because you can make it ahead and freeze it until the day you need it.
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Cheese and onion stuffed squash

Cheese and onion stuffed squash

Usually a butternut squash is so big that I don’t stuff a half. I cut the neck off for making another recipe and then just have the bowl which I halve and stuff for a recipe like this. Enjoy!
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Butternut squash, parmesan and pine nut spaghetti

Butternut squash, parmesan and pine nut spaghetti

Midweek dinner bliss. A bowl of this butternut squash, parmesan and pine nut spaghetti is pure comfort food.
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Hearty Salad Recipes

Our own halloumi butternut squash salad and then some of our other favourite butternut squash recipes from around the Internet.

butternut squash halloumi salad

Halloumi Butternut Squash Salad

Serve the Halloumi Squash Salad with mint yogurt sauce for a delicious, satisfying and portable salad.
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Butternut ricotta tart with fiery rocket salad

BBC Good Food Butternut ricotta tart with fiery rocket salad

We love this for a simple picnic recipe. We serve it as part of a summer buffet.
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Warm roasted squash and Puy lentil salad

Warm roasted squash and Puy lentil salad

We use this recipe from BBC Good Food as a guide. Normally, we use rocket instead of spinach and we add roasted broccoli and grilled halloumi to make a lovely, hearty, portable salad.
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