Butternut Mash Side Dish
A healthy Butternut Mash Side Dish Recipe idea to create. Organic butternut squash cooked on the stove top with brown sugar and cinnamon.
Butternut Mash Side Dish
A healthy Butternut Mash Side Dish Recipe idea to create. Organic butternut squash cooked on the stove top with brown sugar and cinnamon. A Thanksgiving or Christmas side dish for a dinner or lunch meal. A Stovetop recipe idea that is so tasty with a dash of cinnamon and brown sugar. One of my favorite squashes. The most tasty and filling healthy side dish recipe idea. Vegetable recipe in Vegetable and fruits category.
FAQ’s
What to serve with butternut squash?
- Steak, or chicken and pork and other meats.
- Roast potato
- rice
- mash potato
- sausage or boerewors
- casserole dishes
Is butternut pumpkin the same as squash?
Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata) known as butternut in South Africa, or butternut pumpkin in Australia or New Zealand. It is a winter vegetable that grows as a vine and tastes sweet and a bit nutty, but so delicious. You can roast butternut or mash or add in casseroles.
What is the most popular way to eat squash?
You get a few different types of squash, butternut squash and pumpkin. and a few others.
- Butternut squash can be eaten boiled or mashed.
- Roasted in slices or sheet pan roasts.
- Eaten roasted cut in half and filled with veggies or cheese.
- Roasted plainly with brushed olive oil.
- As a roasted butternut squash soup.
- Baby food puree. (excluding the sugar and spices)
- Add it in stews
- and casserole dishes, or with pasta.
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Ingredients for Butternut Mash Side Dish
- A medium butternut squash
- salt
- brown sugar
- cinnamon
For all the amounts for the ingredients and the instructions follow the recipe attached.
How To make Butternut Mash Side Dish
Cut and take the seeds out of the butternut. Cut off the skin and slice and chop into medium sized squares.
In a medium pot on the stove top, add cut up butternut pieces. Add water to just under the butternut pieces. (not a lot of water) Add salt and bring to boil. Simmer down until soft and water has been incorporated. But never leaving the butternut dry.
Add the brown sugar and lastly the cinnamon. Mix and when the butternut is soft, mash with a hand potato masher. Taste to see if enough spices were added.
Serve hot as a healthy side dish with other meals.
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Butternut Mash Side Dish
A healthy Butternut Mash Side Dish Recipe idea to create. Organic butternut squash cooked on the stove top with brown sugar and cinnamon.
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 15 min
- Total Time: 25 min
- Yield: 4
- Category: Side dish, Meals, supper or lunch, dinner
- Method: Stove top No Bake
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
- 1 whole medium butternut squash
- 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon of Salt
- 1 Tablespoon of brown sugar
Instructions
- Cut and take the seeds out of the butternut. Cut off the skin and slice and chop into medium sized squares.
- In a medium pot on the stove top, add cut up butternut pieces. Add water to just under the butternut pieces. (not a lot of water) Add salt and bring to boil. Simmer down until soft and water has been incorporated. But never leaving the butternut dry.
- Add the brown sugar and lastly the cinnamon. Mix and when the butternut is soft, mash with a hand potato masher. Taste to see if enough spices were added.
- Serve hot as a healthy side dish with other meals.
