Winter squash bake
A wonderful way to serve squash. Sliced apples are topped with mashed buttercup squash, crushed cornflakes, pecans and brown sugar, then baked. Serve as a side dish.
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 1.35kg buttercup squash, peeled, seeded and cut into 1.75cm chunks
- 50g butter
- 1 tablespoon dark brown soft sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 dash white pepper
- 25g butter
- 650g sliced peeled apples
- 4 tablespoons caster sugar
- 40g cornflakes cereal, coarsely crushed
- 60g pecans, chopped
- 110g dark brown soft sugar
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:20min ›
Ready in:50min
- Preheat an oven to 180 C / Gas 4.
- Place the squash pieces in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to the boil and cook until the squash is tender, about 15 minutes. Drain; then mash the squash with 50g butter, 1 tablespoon dark brown soft sugar, salt and white pepper.
- Heat the 25g butter in a large frying pan over low heat; stir in sliced apples and sprinkle with the caster sugar. Cover and cook over low heat until barely tender, about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Spread the apples in a 3 litre baking dish. Spoon the mashed squash evenly over the apples.
- Stir together the cornflakes, pecans, the 110g dark brown soft sugar and melted butter. Sprinkle the cornflake mixture evenly over the squash.
- Bake in the preheated oven until heated through, about 15 minutes.
Ingredients
If buttercup squash is unavailable, substitute in acorn or butternut squash.
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Reviews & ratings
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Reviews in English (34)
I served this to 15 people and everybody loved it. I used butternut squash ( couldn't find buttercup). I used Jonagold apples and reduced the white sugar to 1/8 cup. I also reduced the brown sugar in the topping to 1/3 cup. I cooked and mashed the squash the day before so it was very quick to prepare. Thanks for a great dish! - 29 Nov 2008 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Absolutely awesome! The whole family loved it! Squash is hard to peel (this was my 1st time) & the only way I found to make it any easier was to have my husband cut it into small pieces and then I peeled them. I put it together the night before, but didn't cook it until about an hour before the event. It came out awesome!! - 26 Nov 2010 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This recipe was wonderful as it stands. The only thing different I did was use Butternut squash instead of Buttercup only because it was what I had bought. I served it for Thanksgiving Dinner and everyone had two helpings, some had three!! - 30 Nov 2008 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)