Butternut Boats

Name: Butternut Boats
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 5 Tbsps butter, cubed; 2 kgs small butternut squash (about each); 710 milliliters chicken broth; 6 servings Minced chives or parsley; 1 teaspoon dried thyme; 4 larges leeks (white serving only), sliced; 1 teaspoons pepper; 1 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters sour cream

If you have around 1 hour and 10 minutes to spend in the kitchen, Butternut Boats might be an excellent gluten free, lacto ovo vegetarian, and primal recipe to try. One portion of this dish contains roughly 6g of protein, 14g of fat, and a total of 320 calories. This recipe covers 30% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. If you have pepper, butternut squash, leeks, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It works well as a side dish.

Instructions

Cut squash in half; remove and discard seeds.

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Squash

Seeds

Place with cut side down in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan.

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Baking Pan

Add 1/4 in. of water to pan.

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Water

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Frying Pan

Cover and bake at 375° for 40 minutes or until tender. Scoop out pulp, leaving about a 1/4-in shell. Set shells and pulp aside.

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Pasta Shells

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Oven

In a large saucepan, saute leeks and thyme in butter until tender.

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Butter

Leek

Thyme

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Sauce Pan

Add pulp, broth, salt and pepper; simmer for 20 minutes.

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Salt And Pepper

Broth

Remove from the heat; cool slightly.

Cover and process in a blender until pureed; return to pan and heat through. Spoon into squash shells.

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Pasta Shells

Squash

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Blender

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Place sour cream in a heavy-duty resealable plastic bag; cut a small hole in the corner of the bag. Pipe a coil of sour cream over squash filling. Beginning at the center, use a toothpick to draw right angles across the piped lines about 1/2 in. apart.

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Sour Cream