Spinach, Feta & Butternut Squash Salad | Chefs At Heart

• Autumn is orange and its all about the pumpkins
• Cheat Trick or 45 mins in the oven
• Recipe Process Overview | In Brief
• Recipe Nutrition Facts | For All

Autumn is orange and its all about the pumpkins

This dish is yummy, quick, cheap, low in calories, rich in fibers and can be eaten as a breakfast, as a lunch or as a dinner… 

Autumn 🍂 is my favourite time of the year… its the time that I was normally dressed up in my warm scarfs and coats 🧥and having lots of stews and warming soups… my food was normally reflecting the colours of my surroundings: was using butternut squashes and lots of root vegetables in our cooking.

Not anymore… it’s now 34 degrees in Abu Dhabi and is actually lovely. Autumn 🍂 is still in my mind and heart, so my salad had some seasonal inspiration today: butternut squash, leftover baked carrots and sweet potatoes with aniseed and honey🍯…

Cheat Trick or 45 mins in the oven

Today’s cheat trick: have always pre roasted root vegetables in your freezer. It takes about 30-45 minutes to roast the butternut squash in the oven, depending on how is cut. When roasting 1 butternut squash, I store part of it in foodbags in the freezer. That means that when willing to re-use it i only need less than 3 minutes in the microwave instead of another 45 min to bring it back to life and use it in our dishes.

Recipe Process Overview | In Brief

Spinach, Feta & Butternut Squash Salad | Chefs At Heart

Recipe by chefsatheartCourse: Special Feature, Cooking, breakfast, lunch, dinner, prep around 15 min, prep around 45 min, vegetarian, high protein, low calories or lower caloriesDifficulty: Easy

Servings

2 or more

servings

Prep time

6

minutes

Cooking time, if cheat trick is not used

45

minutes

Calorieskcal

Ingredients

• Step 1 – Option A: Dice and Roast Butternut Squash | 40 min

• 1/2 a cup of roasted butternut squash

• Step 1 – Option B: Recook Frozen Butternut Squash in Microwave| 3 min

• 1/2 a cup of roasted butternut squash

• 2 handfuls of spinach ~ 100 gr

• Step 2: Add Remaining Ingredients| 1 min

• 30 gr of Greek Feta – used Kolios

• 10 gr of dried mango – used 1/2 a package of 20 gr dried mangoes from Spinneys

• 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds

• a splash of balsamic vinegar – used Balsamic Vinegar Of Modena from Spinneys

• a splash of olive oil – used Ladinio from Kibsons

• a teaspoon of honey

Directions

• Step 0: Gather All Ingredients & Utensils
• Step 1 – Option B: Recook Frozen Butternut Squash in Microwave| 3 min
  See notes on this above
• Step 2: Add Remaining Ingredients| 1 min
  Add all the remaining ingredients
• Step 3: Enjoy!
  On its own as a main meal with a slice of Ryvita or as a side dish with some grilled chicken

Notes

• Be creative! In the picture above I added some leftover roasted sweet potatoes and carrots with a splash of olive oil, a splash of honey and some delightfully fragrant aniseed.

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