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Showing posts with label butternut squash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label butternut squash. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Butternut Squash Sauce

Looking for a creamy filling winter pasta sauce? Check out this recipe for my Butternut Squash Sauce.
In a food processor add:
1/2 of a baked butternut squash (cut squash in half, remove seeds and lie on baking sheet with inside facing up, bake at 375 for about 40 mins or until soft when poked with fork, then let cool and peel off shell and break into pieces or spoon insides out)
1/4 cup of nutritional yeast
1/2 cup of almond milk
1/4 cup of sesame seeds
1 tsp of salt
2 tsp of ginger
1 tsp of cumin
2 tbsp of melted coconut oil
blend until smooth

Mix in with your choice of pasta ( I used rice noodles), once mixed with noodles you can heat it up in a pot on the stove for a couple mins (dish can be served cold too), then add in some kale and sprinkle pumpkin seeds on top.
Enjoy!

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Butternut Squash Soup

Fall is here people and so we need to embrace it! Along with falling leaves and comfy sweaters, soup is one of my fav things about this season.  So here is a comforting recipe that will carry you through fall and into the long cold winter nights.
First:
-bake a medium sized butter nut squash at 375 degrees
use fork to poke it until it is soft, which should take around 40 mins, and let it sit and cool for about 20 mins

Second:
-scope out the seeds of the butternut squash and throw out
-scope out all of the inside of the squash and put it in the food processor with a whole can of coconut milk and a cup of whole cashews
-blend until smooth
Third:
-while your squash is cooking you can do the next steps
-sautee a medium sized onion (chopped) and minced 2 cloves of garlic in 2 tbsps of coconut oil
and..
-boil 1/2 cup of dry lentils with a large chopped carrot and a chopped celery stalk
-boil until lentils are cooked....about 20 mins

Fourth:
-add in the cooked onions, garlic, lentils, carrots and celery into the food processor with your already mixed squash with coconut milk and cashews.
-add 1 cup of water, 1 tsp of salt, 1 tsp of ginger and 1/2 tsp of paprika
-then mix all the ingredients together in your food processor for about 3-5 mins
-if it is not warm enough you can reheat it in a pot and serve!
Enjoy!