How to Cook Butternut SquashButternut Squash Recipes
Whether you call it Butternut or Buttercup, this squash has a sweet and nutty flavor and can be used in many types of recipes.
Butternut squash is a much sweeter variety of squash than a summer of zucchini squash. The flavor is a lot like a sweet potato and butternut squash is often substituted in recipes calling for sweet potato. The average squash weighs about 3 pounds and the pulp is a yellowish orange color. Differences in Butternut and Buttercup SquashButternut squash has a pale orange rind and is shaped like a gourd. Buttercup squash has a dark green rind and is a round shape. Both of these winter squash have the sweet flavor with butternut having the nuttier taste of the two. The brighter color rinds produce a squash with more Vitamin A. Buttercup squash are high in fiber and protein also. How to Cook Butternut SquashThis squash is good just steamed or baked before serving. One way to bake a butternut squash is to cut it down the middle, scoop out the strings and seeds. Turn both pieces face down on a foil covered baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes at 375 degrees. When the squash is soft inside, remove from the oven, add butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon and enjoy the sweet squash. Mashed butternut squash can be added to freezer containers in serving size to enjoy for a snack at a later time. Butternut Soup Recipe
Butternut squash is healthy and plentiful. With the large variety of kid friendly ways of cooking, future trials of getting the vitamins in the children may be limited For more information on Buttercup squash visit WiseGeek. For a view of pictures of many varieties of winter squash see What's Cooking America.
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