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Squash season is right around the corner, and with it comes endless possibilities for soups, pies, side dishes, casseroles, and more. From yellow squash to butternut squash to kabocha squash, you've probably noticed more than a few types of squash at your local farmers market or grocery store. Try new ways to make butternut squash soup with recipes from Ina, Alton, Tyler and more.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have squash & chickpea curry using 9 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Squash & chickpea curry:
- Prepare 1 onion, chopped
- Take 1-2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Prepare 1 small Butternut Squash, peeled, deseeded & cut into cubes
- Take 1 tin chopped tomatoes
- Take 1 tin chickpeas, drained & rinsed
- Take 400 ml vegetable stock
- Prepare 4 blocks frozen spinach
- Take 1-2 tsp curry powder (depending on how hot it is/how you like it!)
- Make ready salt & pepper
Most squash is technically classified as a 'pepo,' which is a one-celled, many-seeded berry with a hard rind. There are more than a hundred types of squash that are known. They all belong to the same genus, that is, Cucurbita. Pick summer squash when it's small and tender, not big and seedy.
Instructions to make Squash & chickpea curry:
- Place a large frying pan (or saucepan or wok) over a medium heat with 2 tbsp oil. Cook the onion for 2 minutes then add the garlic & cook for another minute before adding the squash. Stir in the curry powder after 5 minutes. - Pour in the stock & tomatoes, stir well then season with salt & pepper & simmer for a few minutes then add the spinach allowing it to melt a little before stirring.
- Add the chickpeas leave to simmer again, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes or until the squash is tender. - Serve with rice or naan bread.
And keep picking to keep the harvest going! Hidden beneath the hard, nubbly skin is a delicious yellow flesh that's both savory and sweet. The flesh is high in sugar but sometimes mealy, which means it's best pureed (as a pie filling) or mashed. The Definition of Squash: The fruits of various members of the gourd family, which fall into two classifications, summer squash and winter squash. Squash definition is - to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush.
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