Recipe: Perfect Mashed Butternut Squash

Mashed Butternut Squash. On a large baking sheet, toss butternut squash with oil and season with salt and pepper. Put squash cubes in a shallow, wide baking dish. Season with salt and pepper and toss with hands to coat.

So yummy it is almost a dessert. Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. To make the Food Network star's mashed squash, you need just four simple ingredients: unsalted butter, light brown sugar, half-and-half, and butternut squash. You can cook Mashed Butternut Squash using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mashed Butternut Squash

1. You need 1 of large Butternut Squash.
2. Prepare 2 of tbl. Butter.
3. It's 1/4 of cup packed Brown Sugar.
4. Prepare 1 of tsp. Salt.

Butternut squash is one of my favorite vegetables. I eat it multiple times per week since it is packed with nutrition and so delicous. One of my favorite ways to eat it is roasted and mashed, which makes this recipe the BEST Mashed Butternut Squash EVER!. It has all of the bells and whistles you would want this dish to have!

Mashed Butternut Squash step by step

1. Poke some holes in squash and place in microwave for 10 mins. On high..
2. Flip and repeat for 10 more mins. Will be Very Hot..
3. Remove and cover with foil. Let cool enough to handle..
4. Slice length wise and remove seeds. Remove pulp. The skin should literally peel off. If still hard, microwave 5 more mins..
5. Add pulp to remaining ingredients and mash with fork. Should be very soft. Serve or reheat later..

Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cut off and discard the ends of the butternut squash. Peel the squash, cut them in half lengthwise and remove the seeds. Add the melted butter, brown sugar, salt and pepper.