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Stuffed butternut squash with feta

• Anna Glover

Published: December 10, 2020 at 10:12 AM

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Serves 4

Easy

Total time: 1 hr

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Transform butternut squash into a colourful, low-calorie midweek dinner by stuffing it with rice, lemon zest, raisins, dill, pine nuts and feta

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Ingredients

Nutrition

• 1 large butternut squash

• 2 tbsp olive oil

• 2 long shallots

  chopped

• 2 cloves garlic

  crushed

• 200g basmati rice

• 400ml vegetable stock

• 1 lemon

  zested and juiced

• 4 tbsp raisins or dried cranberries

• ½ small bunch oregano

  leaves picked and chopped

• ½ small bunch dill

  chopped

• 2 tbsp pine nuts

  toasted

• 100g feta

• 320g winter greens or spinach

  steamed

Nutrition: per serving

• kcal489

  low

• fat17.9g

• saturates4.9g

• carbs64.7g

• sugars25.4g

• fibre6g

• protein14.3g

• salt1.5g

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Method

• step 1

  Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Cut the squash in half through the middle, and remove the seeds using a spoon. Rub with half the oil, season and put, cut-side up, on a baking tray. Roast for 40 minutes.

• step 2

  Meanwhile, heat the remaining oil in a medium pan. Fry the shallots for 10 minutes until soft. Add the garlic, fry for 30 seconds, then add the rice and cook for 2 minutes, stirring to coat in the shallots and oil.

• step 3

  Pour in the stock, lemon zest and juice, and bring to a simmer. Stir in the raisins, most of the herbs and almost all of the pine nuts. Turn the heat to medium-low, cover and cook for 12-15 minutes until the rice is tender and the stock has been absorbed.

• step 4

  After 40 minutes, remove the squash from the oven and use a spoon to scoop out some of the flesh from the middle, creating a hollow (chop and stir the flesh into any left-over rice, or use in another recipe).

• step 5

  Fluff the rice with a fork, then spoon into the hollowed-out middles of the squash. Crumble over the feta. Turn up the oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7 and bake the squash halves for 10 minutes until the feta is golden and crisp. Scatter with the remaining herbs and pine nuts, and serve alongside any remaining rice with the wilted spinach or winter greens.

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Anna GloverSenior food editor

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