Thanksgiving Recipes: Easy Roasted Butternut Squash

November 24, 2013

This guest Thanksgiving recipe is from my friend and fellow Marin mom Nancy Grossi, author of the award-winning blog The Wife of a Dairyman. Nancy started her blog at the beginning of 2010, and offers a look into life on one of Marin's many dairy farms.

Tis the season for butternut squash, pumpkins, the scent of cinnamon wafting through the house, all good things in my book. On this night I tried a new butternut squash recipe where it's first peeled, cut into chunks and then roasted in a heavenly buttery, brown sugar, honey, cinnamon, o.j. mixture. Oh yeah.

Ingredients

1 butternut squash
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 honey
1/4 cup brown sugar
Kosher salt and pepper

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut the ends off the butternut squash, slice in half, scoop out the seeds and peel with a vegetable peeler. Cut into chunks. Place on a baking sheet.

Mix together the melted butter, cinnamon, orange juice, honey, brown sugar and salt and pepper. Pour mixture over the butternut chunks on the baking tray and toss to coat all pieces.