Stuffed Butternut Squash with Cheese Muffins

Today's dinner was Stuffed Butternut Squash which I served with some savoury Cheese Muffins! I'd never tried savoury muffins before but they were extremely yummy! Went really well with the dish, and everyone was licking the wrappers clean!!! (No manners my family :))

Here are the recipes!



Stuffed Butternut Squash

Ingredients:

1 Butternut squash
1 Onion
2 Cloves of garlic
A couple of handfuls of spinach
Half a small bag of pine nuts
A sprig of sage
Parmesan

Method:

Cut the butternut squash in half. Remove the pulp and seeds and score the rest of the flesh deep, rubbing with olive oil.

Place in a hot oven (roughly gas mark 6) for an hour until softened.

While the squash is cooking toast the pine nuts and combine with a mixture of spinach, onion, garlic, sage and Parmesan to taste.

When the butternut squash has softened scoop some out and mix with the filling. then return to the skin of the butternut squash and cook for a further 40mins.

(If you want to be really unhealthy this can be topped with cheese to melt in the oven!)

The butternut squash is then ready to serve!

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Cheese Muffins

These are perhaps one of my most favourite new recipes! I'd had the idea for a savoury muffin since ordering my "cafe-style" muffin cases and hadtoyed with the idea of pumpkin seeds, but soon settled on a basic cheese muffin recipe to accompany my Stuffed Butternut Squash recipe.

Perfect as a snack, or an exciting accompaniment to a meal, everyone will love these muffins!

Ingredients:

250g Plain Flour

3.5 Tsp Baking Powder

1 Tsp Salt

50g Butter

1 Egg

250ml Milk

120g Grated Cheese

A handful of cheddar squares to top.

Method:

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Add the butter and rub into bread crumbs.

Add all of the wet ingredients (including the cheese) into the bowl and combine.

Do not worry about the mixture looking lumpy and sloppy in places.

Top with a couple of cubes of cheddar per muffin.

Place into muffin cases and bake for 20mins at gas mark 6. They are ready when a knife comes away clean and the tops have bubbled and become golden.

Enjoy!