Recipe: Roast Spicy Squash

This recipe also works well if you replace half of the squash or pumpkin with part roasted potatoes.  This vegetable dish also makes a very good accompaniment to your Christmas dinner.



Ingredients - serves 8



2 large butternut squash, halved and de-seeded or pumpkin will work as well

1 or 2 small dried red chillies

1 tbsp coriander seeds

a small cinnamon stick

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

1/4 of a fresh nutmeg

extra virgin olive oil



Method -



Preheat the oven to 200c.



Cut the butternut squash into slices or chunks.



In a pestle bash up the chillies, coriander seeds and cinnamon stick with a good pinch of salt and pepper, then finely grate over the nutmeg.



Place the squash in a roasting tray, drizzle over some olive oil, then sprinkle over the spices and toss together.



Bake in the preheated oven for 40 mins or until soft.