Stuffed Butternut Squash Recipe | Food

Date Published:: 04/09/2007

This features feta cheese and basil, but you can customise the filling with whatever ingredients take your fancy.

Serves 4

Ingredients

1 large butternut squash (about 1.5kg) or 2 small ones (about 750g each)
50g butter
1 medium garlic clove, finely chopped
a little olive oil
salt and freshly ground black pepper
200g feta cheese, crumbled into small lumps
1 tbsp shredded basil leaves

Method: How to make stuffed butternut squash

1. Preheat the oven to 190°c/Gas Mark 5.

2. Make sure the outside of the squash is scrubbed clean. Cut the squash in half lengthways and scoop out the seeds and soft fibres. Put in an ovenproof dish, put a little chopped garlic and a small nut of butter in each cavity, brush with olive oil and season well.

3. Bake for about an hour, until the flesh feels very tender when pierced with the tip of a knife.

4. Then carefully scoop out the soft flesh, and the buttery, garlicky juices, into a bowl, leaving a 1cm-thick layer of flesh still attached to the skin, so the squash holds its shape. Roughly mash the flesh.

5. Fold the feta and basil into the soft squash, along with some more salt and pepper. Spoon the filling back into the two empty squash halves, return the squashes to the oven and bake for a further 15 minutes before serving.

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I have changed it a bit: cooked the squash as above but added a bit of thyme sauted courgettes, shalottes, string beans mixed the mash and the veggies filled the sqaush halfes with one scoop of the mash with veggies laid down a layer of grated cheese one more scoop or the mash with veggies topped it off with 2 slices of camenebert on top after my dinnerparty I only had empty plates to speak for the result :)

Posted by thecat on 28/10/2009 19:08:49

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Wow have just made this with a squash from my allotment, and i used wesleydale(crumbly cheese) and lots of freash basil, and for a little touch some Salsa on the side was very tasty. will be making that again for sure.

Posted by pete on 17/09/2009 19:04:45

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Big flavour - absolutely delicious. My lunch guests loved it. I've made it using the basil but the other day I forgot to buy basil so I used fresh corriander instead - and that was excellent too. Well done Hugh.

Posted by Lynette on 31/12/2008 05:12:56

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This is delicious! Have made it a bunch of times to great acclaim. For bigger parties it works great as a tasty mash...

Posted by caller9 on 19/12/2008 15:13:31

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How do you serve this? Without the shell? Do you scoop it out to serve?

Posted by Ali on 16/10/2008 19:34:22

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