Gnocchi With Butternut Squash (squacchi Perhaps!)

"This is very tasty, simple and quick to make (what more can anyone ask for?). The recipe uses bought gnocchi, but you could always make your own if you have time on your hands! The original recipe comes from the latest Sainsbury's magazine (April 2005 issue), but I've tweaked it a bit. It'll take plenty more tweaking to suit your preferences too, just choose your favorite seasoning and herbs. This recipe will feed two very hungry adults (no need for a pudding!), but it also makes enough for 4 reasonably sized smaller servings. A good week-night meat-free supper dish that you can serve with a simple green salad. Hope you enjoy it."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
2
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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)
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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

  1. 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!!
     
  2. The italian word for squash is zucca ;)
     
  3. 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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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! <img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/kzbhansen/Banners/Animation3.gif"> 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.
 
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