For those of you who are finding butternut squash in your veg boxes, here’s my all-time favourite butternut squash recipe:
Aoki Sweetcorn & Chilli Butternut Squash
In fact, I’m making it again tonight, for the first time this year, and I can’t wait!
There’s quite a story behind this butternut squash recipe, from my time living with a half-Japanese family in Argentina??? It’s really worth doing the red cabbage and soy sauce accompaniment, for the full experience. Let me know what you think!
We’ve gots loads of other butternut squash recipes on the website, including one for a cake!
Butternut squash is becoming increasingly popular in the UK, with supermarkets now importing it from as far afield as Argentina, to meet out-of-season demand.
The good news is that September through to December is peak season for UK-harvested butternut squash, meaning it’s everywhere and cheaper!
So if you’ve got one, don’t leave it festering in your vegetable drawer, dig it out and get cooking.
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Thanks
Clare
Writing in January, I’m so sad that UK-grown butternut squash is no longer available. I love it SO much! In fact, I’m that big a fan that I’ve bought seeds to grow my own.
http://tinyurl.com/vegboxgarden
But I have to confess to feeling slightly daunted.
So does anyone have any useful squash growing tips for us?
I love butternut squash but I always find it hard to peel and cut. Does anyone have any tips?
Hey Chiropodist! We have the very thing for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4e7TBW5mYs
Hope that helps
Claire at VegBox Recipes
For those who want to grow some: All squashes perform better in richly fertilised soil, so add as much compost and/or well rotted manure as you can spare, but it does need to be rotted properly or you encourage fungal afflictions. You can dig a hole and mix this into the soil, finishing it off as a slight mound. They need plenty of water so this helps retain it.
Choose a variety bred for the UK, I grew ‘Harrier’ and it produced plenty of smallish squashes which was very useful because I don’t always need a whole larger one, but in a wetter season I think they would have grown bigger anyway – there’s no water on our alottments.
I also grew ‘Crown Prince’ a larger round bluish/greenish squash which did very well too and the flesh is very similar to Butternut types, I grew these because they keep well too. I’ve only used one of them so far and found it had a small seed cavity so good value for size of storage space.
Raise them in pots with protection, not too early as they grow very fast, if they are ready before you think it’s safe from risk of frost then re-pot in a rather bigger pots. You can also cover the prepared planting site beforehand to warm the soil and help them establish quicker. give the plants penty of room as they trail a long across the ground and anything in thier path – you can train them over a compost heap to shade it.
Good luck with them, and have fun!
Connie-Rose that is wonderful advice! Thank you so much!