Another week, another new recipe with my good old pal Tammy. This week's theme: Squash! More precisely, butternut squash. We did crostinis and a thick delicious potage. For the butternut squash crostinis, the recipe is fairly simple.
1 or 2 pound butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut into small cubes
Lemon juice
Lime zest
1 Baguette cut into slices and toasted
1 Cup ricotta
3 Tablespoons of melted butter
2 Tablespoons of olive oil
2 Tablespoons of brown sugar
Salt and pepper
Sage leaves
Firstly, preheat oven at 425 degrees Celsius. Then, in a large bowl, put your squash, butter, sugar, oil, salt and pepper. Mix it up good and pop it in the oven for a good 25 minutes. During that time, prepare your ricotta in another bowl by simply adding some lemon zest to it and a little salt and pepper. Also, start toasting your baguette slices in a small oven or even along your squash. For the sage leaves simply fry them in olive oil in a small pan for 2 minutes. Scoop them up. They should be a little crunchy. Finally, spread the ricotta on the baguette slices, add your squash cubes, 1 or 2 sage leaves on each slice and drizzle some lemon juice and voila!
For the yummy potage you can find the complete recipe here! I hope we can turn these food rendez-vous into a weekly thing!