Gnocchi With Butternut Squash (squacchi Perhaps!)
photo by Kumquat the Cats fr
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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2
ingredients
- 453.59 g butternut squash, peeled deseeded and cut into 1/2 inch chunks (1 small or 1/2 average sized squash will yield this amount)
- 44.37 ml sun-dried tomatoes (from a jar of semi-dried tomatoes in olive oil)
- 29.58 ml oil, from the jar or 29.58 ml plain olive oil
- 500 g package of fresh gnocchi
- 100 g feta cheese, crumbled
- 29.58 ml parmesan cheese, shavings
- seasoning (suggestions given in the instructions) or herbs, of your choice (suggestions given in the instructions)
directions
- Preheat your oven to 425 degrees F, 220 degrees C, gas mark 7.
- Toss the squash and oil together in large ovenproof dish, add your seasoning and herbs (a good grind of black pepper works well with 1 tablespoon of chopped fresh sage or 1 teaspoon of fresh rosemary - I don't think this needs salt so I suggest you go easy if you're adding salt too) and mix well.
- Place the dish on a high shelf in the oven and roast for about 20 minutes until the squash is tender and beginning to brown at the edges: then preheat your grill to high.
- Cook the gnocchi according to the pack instructions (the gnocchi will only take a few minutes to prepare so do this towards the end of the roasting time); drain gnocchi and add to the squash.
- Mix the semi-dried tomatoes with the squash, scatter the feta cheese evenly over the dish then do the same with the parmesan shavings.
- Place under the grill and cook until the cheeses melts and begins to bubble: serve immediately.
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Reviews
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This was DELICIOUS! I cheated and got a container of pre-cut butternut squash, which made the prep time practically nonexistent. I also used lots of fresh rosemary, and reduced fat feta. Last night we had it as our main dish with a yummy arugula salad, and I can't wait to have the leftovers :-). SO good, and so easy. Thank you for sharing this!!
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Excellent recipe, very flavorful! I knew I would probably love this recipe when I read the ingredients, but it turned out great too! I used fresh sage, low fat feta cheese and reduced the amount of oil. As a result, the outcome was a bit dry but still very, very tasty. Definitely will make this again. A perfect vegetarian main meal for two. Thanks very much!
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Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.