Sugar Roast Butternut Squash

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sugar roasted squashBring a sweet warmth to Monday with this delicious sugar roast butternut squash recipe. Quick and easy to prepare, you can omit the bacon for a vegetarian friendly but equally tasty dish. 

Serves 4

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 50 minutes.

What you’ll need:

  • 1 butternut squash, unpeeled, halved, seeded and cut into chunks
  • 2 red onions, peeled and cut into wedges
  • 3tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 pinches ground cinnamon
  • Salt and pepper, to season
  • 50g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
  • Pinch of cayenne pepper
  • 1tbsp Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Demerara Sugar
  • 200g unsmoked bacon, cut into cubes or lardons

What to Do: 

  • Preheat the oven to 200C /400F/ Gas Mark 6. Put the squash and onions into a baking tray. Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with cinnamon and season.
  • Cover the tray with foil and roast for 25 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, mix the hazelnuts, cayenne pepper and Tate & Lyle Demerara Sugar together in a bowl.
  • Remove the baking tray from the oven, scatter the bacon pieces over the squash, then top with the nut mix.
  • Place back in the oven, uncovered this time, for another 25 minutes before 25 minutes.

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For more winter warming recipes see StyleNest’s Sunday Roasts.

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