Spicy sweet and sour Butternut squash salad

Spicy sweet and sour Butternut squash salad

Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata) is known in Australia and New Zealand as butternut pumpkin or gramma, and "Batana" in Sri Lanka. It has a sweet, nutty taste similar to that of a pumpkin. It has yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp. It is available in the market all the year round.

 Butternut squash 

Butternut squash has many vital poly-phenolic anti-oxidants and vitamins. It has more vitamin A than that of in pumpkin..It is cooked like pumpkin. Today I am going to make a very simple salad using it.

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                  Spicy sweet and sour Butternut squash salad

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes

Serves: 4

1. Wash, peel 130 grams butternut pumpkin and remove the seeds.

2. Cut the vegetable into ¼ inch or ½ inch cubes. 

Spicy sweet and sour Butternut 
squash salad

In a medium sized steamer add the squash pieces and steam them for about  ten minutes. Set aside to cool.

3. Mash the steamed squash  well. I used the hand held blender to mash.

Mix all the ingredients: 100 gram onion chopped fine, 2 green chillies finely chopped, ½ cup Yogurt, ½ tsp pepper and  ½ tsp salt to taste together to form the salad.

Pumpkin, onion, chili,
yogurt,salt and pepper

That’s it. The salad is ready. 

4. The sweetness of the pumpkin, sour taste of yogurt and hot chili give a pleasant taste for this dish. It is quick and easy to make.


 It can be served with rice or as accompaniment to any main dish.

Spicy sweet and sour Butternut squash salad is ready.

                Recipe follows in detail with pictures.

Onion and green chili

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Serves: 4

Ingredients
Main
130 grams butternut
Others
100 gram onion
2 green chillies
½ cup Yogurt
salt to taste
Spice
½ tsp pepper

Preparation
Wash, peel pumpkin and remove the seeds.

Pumpkin sliced into half

 Although the skin and seeds are edible, they are not usually cooked. The hard skin becomes soft when roasted. Cut the vegetable into ¼ inch or ½ inch cubes. 

Pumpkin pieces

In a medium sized steamer add the squash pieces and steam them for about  ten minutes. Set aside to cool.

Steamed pumpkin pieces

Method
Mash the steamed squash  well. I used the hand held blender to mash.

  Using the blender  to mash

Mashed pumpkin

Mix all the ingredients together to form the salad.

Pumpkin, onion, chili, yogurt salt and pepper 

That’s it. The salad is ready. It can be served with rice or as accompaniment to any main dish.
The sweetness of the pumpkin, sour taste of yogurt and hot chili 
give a pleasant taste for this dish. It is quick and easy to make.

Spicy sweet and sour Butternut squash salad