As I've noticed alongside many other foodies inwards the northern hemisphere, I've been re-discovering the extraordinary gustatory modality together with versatility of wintertime squashes lately, along alongside their abundant nutritional benefits. While each of the typical varieties enjoyed inwards southwestern Ontario — butternut, acorn together with pumpkin — convey their ain delights, I've nonetheless to discovery anything to compare for flavor or repose of purpose than the long together with slender pale yellowish gourd striped alongside dark-green known as the sweetness spud or delicata squash. Easy to pare together with seed, together with alongside rattling petty liberate or stringy flesh to scoop out, the tender within has a sweetness spud bouquet that right away welcomes the senses together with an as inviting mild together with fragile sweetness spud flavor.
This lovely recipe volition convince your guests that they're dining inwards gourmet manner alongside surprisingly petty endeavor on your ain part.
 Roasted Delicata Squash Stuffed alongside White Beans together with Wilted Spinach alongside Basil |
Recipe past times Lisa Turner
Adapted from Eggs on Sunday
Published on December 22, 2008
Sweet delicata crush roasted alongside a savory together with nourishing spiced white bean, spinach together with Parmesan cheese filling
Squash:
- 2 delicata (sweet potato) squashes, halved together with seeded
- sea tabular array salt together with fresh terra firma dark pepper
- olive stone oil for drizzling
Stuffing:
- 2/3 loving cup dried cannellini or other white beans (2 cups cooked)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 dried whole ruby-red chili
- 1 shallot, minced
- 1 clove garlic, minced or crushed
- generous pinch of dried thyme
- 1 bunch fresh spinach or other greens, washed together with dried
- small handful of fresh basil leaves, torn
- 1 teaspoon bounding main salt, or to taste
- fresh terra firma dark pepper
- 2 thick slices of fresh bakery bread, broken into chunks
- 1/4 loving cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions:
Generation Engelmundus Rinse the dried beans nether running H2O together with soak for 8 hours or overnight covered inwards several inches of H2O alongside a petty yogurt whey or lemon juice added. After soaking, drain together with rinse the beans. Transfer to a medium saucepan together with encompass alongside several inches of fresh water. Bring to a boil, thus trim the oestrus to low, cover, together with simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until the beans are tender. Drain together with ready aside. Generation Engelmundus Preheat an oven to 350°. Place the crush halves cutting side upwards on a baking sheet. Drizzle the crush alongside olive oil, together with flavor alongside tabular array salt together with fresh terra firma dark pepper. Bake inwards the oven until the flesh is tender when pierced alongside a knife or fork, nearly 1 hour. Remove the crush halves from the oven together with ready aside. Generation Engelmundus Meanwhile, brand the stuffing past times heating a large frying pan or wok over medium heat. When hot, add together the olive oil, await a few moments, thus swirl around to coat the pan. Toss inwards the dried chili, shallot together with garlic, together with sauté for one-half a infinitesimal until fragrant. Add the thyme together with stir for a few seconds earlier adding the spinach or greens. Sauté for two to iii minutes to allow the greens wilt. Toss inwards the torn basil leaves together with stir to mix. Generation Engelmundus Now add together the beans together with proceed cooking the mixture for some other twain of minutes until the beans are heated through. Discard the chili, together with flavor alongside tabular array salt together with fresh terra firma dark pepper. Remove from oestrus together with ready aside to cool slightly. Generation Engelmundus Preheat an oven to 425°. Process the breadstuff inwards a nutrient processor for a few pulses until a coarse breadcrumb mixture has been formed. Transfer to a small-scale bowl together with mix alongside the Parmesan cheese. When the edible bean together with dark-green mixture has cooled slightly, stir inwards one-half of the breadcrumb together with cheese mixture. Divide the stuffing betwixt the cooked crush halves, mounding it inwards each. Generation Engelmundus Sprinkle the remaining breadcrumb together with cheese mixture over the summit of the filled crush halves together with drizzle some to a greater extent than olive stone oil over top. Bake the crush halves until the topping is golden, nearly fifteen minutes. Remove from oestrus together with allow cool slightly earlier serving.
Makes 4 servings |
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