{"id":112,"date":"2010-10-23T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=112"},"modified":"2020-03-22T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T19:27:36","slug":"roasted-butternut-squash-lasagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2010\/10\/roasted-butternut-squash-lasagne\/","title":{"rendered":"Roasted Butternut Squash Lasagne"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a recipe that we improvised at home a few weeks ago – but unfortunately we haven’t taken a picture of it either time. We tend to eat this over two nights, so I guess it would serve 4 at one sitting – although perhaps accompanied by some bread?<\/p>\n

Pre-heat the oven to around 220C.<\/p>\n

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  1. Peel and dice a large butternut squash, and put it in a roasting tin. We dice into relatively large chunks – it’s up to you, but the smaller you dice it, I guess the shorter you’ll want to roast it<\/li>\n
  2. Season with salt, pour some oil (we use a cheap rapeseed oil – basically anything that can cope with the high roasting temperature – which probably means not olive oil). You could put some woody herbs like thyme or rosemary in as well, although we haven’t<\/li>\n
  3. Put the squash in the oven to roast – 30 minutes will do it for a relatively large dice, but basically until it is cooked through and soft. Once the squash is done you’ll want to turn the oven down slightly – to around 180C<\/li>\n
  4. While the squash is roasting make a tomato sauce – we recommend making it with fresh tomatoes which keeps it lighter than the tinned. Basically chop an onion and fry gently to soften in plenty of olive oil (Damyanti says “lots<\/em> of olive oil”), add some crushed garlic, some oregano. Blanch, skin and chop\u00a0the tomatoes in the meantime, and then add them. Simmer it until it has reduced to a nice consistency – you don’t want too much liquid<\/li>\n
  5. Make a bechamel\/white sauce (sorry, not going to go into this here – but plenty of places you can find out how to do this)<\/li>\n
  6. Now build the lasagne – first a layer of tomato sauce, then squash, then some fresh spinach leaves scattered over, then lasagne sheets (we use fresh and find you can just use it , but if you use dried you’ll want to put it in some boiling water first), repeat this pattern, and then top the final sheet of lasagne with the bechamel sauce.<\/li>\n
  7. Put the whole thing in the oven for about 20-30 minutes – until the top has gone nicely brown<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s it – it sounds complicated but to be honest it doesn’t feel like a big hassle once the squash is in the oven – it gives you time to do everything else. We really like it, and recommend it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is a recipe that we improvised at home a few weeks ago – but unfortunately we haven’t taken a picture of it either time. We tend to eat this over two nights, so I guess it would serve 4 at one sitting – although perhaps accompanied by some bread? Pre-heat the oven to around…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}