Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe

Last night for dinner I made roasted butternut squash for the husband. I am not a big fan of butternut but he loved it and to me, that is what counts.

Every week we get a vegetable and fruit box put together with produce from local - and some not so local - farmers. I have been enjoying the experience as I have no idea for the most part what will be arriving. Once can choose add-ons and I tend to, but the main box is what happens to be ready and available that week.

The last two weeks the box has included butternut squash. I will be the first to admit that I am not a fan. The husband likes it though, so I went about preparing it for him. After 40 years of marriage I am rather good at cooking things I don’t like but that he enjoys. Salmon for one - he adores it, I hate it yet I do manage to make him some salmon dinners that he thoroughly enjoys.

It seems I did the same with this squash. I used one of his favorite flavors - maple syrup - along with some of the other components in the box, apples and onions. I served it on rice with a lovely, ripe tomato on the side and he thoroughly enjoyed his dinner.

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Roasted Butternut Squash with Apples and Onions

Serves 2 with rice

• 1/2 butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut into chunks
• 1/4 cup diced red onion
• 2 apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
• 1 TBS olive oil
• 2 TBS pure maple syrup
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme

Cooked rice for serving

• Preheat oven to 350
• In a medium baking dish, mix together the chunks of squash, apple and onion.

• Drizzle with olive oil and maple syrup, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and thyme. Stir to mix.
• Roast in the preheated oven until the squash is soft, about 30 - 40 minutes.

• Serve over hot rice

How Was the Maple Roasted Butternut Squash?

I have no clue. This is another one of those vegetables that I do not eat. But I cook them for the husband. He said this was a delicious, vegetarian meal. And that makes me very happy.

He said the squash was cooked perfectly and the maple syrup flavor came through just right. I am always glad when I can cook him a dinner that he truly enjoys. Since I am not so fond of butternut squash so I just ate something else.

Maple Roasted Butternut Squash

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Oven roasted butternut squash with maple syrup and thyme

• Author: Patty @bookscookslooks.com

Ingredients

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• 1/2 butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut into chunks
• 1/4 cup diced red onion
• 2 apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
• 1 TBS olive oil
• 2 TBS pure maple syrup
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme

Cooked rice for serving

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. In a medium baking dish, mix together the chunks of squash, apple and onion.
3. Drizzle with olive oil and maple syrup, sprinkle with salt. pepper, and thyme. Stir to mix.
4. Roast in the preheated oven until the squash is soft, about 30 - 40 minutes.
5. Serve over hot rice