Whole Butternut Squash in a Slow Cooker Recipe

By Recipe And Photo Shawna Coronado
Published on August 27, 2019
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Butternut squash is a perfect whole-food side dish. Using a slow cooker is an easy and hands-free way to make cooking tough-to-cut squash less stressful. This technique is particularly effective if you have lost strength in your hands and arms; raw butternut squash and pumpkin can be difficult to cut. Once it’s cooked in the slow cooker, you can cut the squash like butter and it tastes fantastic. This technique works for any large squash or pumpkin.

Ingredients

  • 1 large butternut squash (a size that will fit your slow cooker)
  • 1/4 cup water
  • Drizzle of olive oil
  • Salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. Cut slits in the skin of the squash with a sharp knife.
  2. Place squash in a slow cooker; add water. Turn to low and cook for 6 hours.
  3. Remove from slow cooker when tender. Cut in half; remove seeds and outer peel and discard.
  4. Scoop out squash and mash well. Mix in salt and pepper, then drizzle with olive oil and serve, or save for other dishes.

More from Stacked with Flavor:

Help your family stay healthy, lose weight, feel better, and have more energy while reducing aches and pains and chronic inflammation. Stacked With Flavor allows you to discover Shawna’s secret of placing foods on top of another to enhance color, scent, and taste, and her herb and spice combinations to increase the flavor of your foods. Applying the knowledge Shawna gained from her guiding nutritionists and doctors to her daily life helped trigger a remarkable transformation; she went from taking medications as a solution to her health issues, to a life with more than 80 percent reduction in pain, reduced allergy reactions, improved moods, and increased energy, all without prescriptions.


Excerpted with permission from Stacked with Flavor by Shawna Coronado (Ogden Publications, 2019).

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