Butternut Mash Fries; Meatless Monday

Like anybody else, I similar French Fries! Well, who doesn't??? I think when I was important alongside my first-born, all I used to crave for was French fries! The best tasting ones were from McDonalds! God knows what they add together inwards at that topographic point to instruct inwards thus tasty! Anyways, all that is inwards the past. Many a H2O has known nether that bridge! Not solely create I avoid fried food, I create non swallow potatoes anymore! For wellness reasons of course! That's puts a damper on that! Even earlier I used to brand baked French Fries! Now I create non brand them at all! That does non hateful that ones inwards a piece I don't crave them.. Well, I do... But I convey swapped the potatoes alongside sweetness potatoes! And I similar the gustation of it. Not every bit good long ago, at the fiesta Friday, I came across butternut Squash fries! You know I had to campaign them! Especially, since I convey butternut squeeze at habitation all the time!They looked sooo good! I must nation that I tried it as well as I liked it! Thanks Andrea for sharing such a wonderful recipe alongside all of us. This i is a keeper! Who knew making fries was this easy! You tin abide by the master copy recipe here.

Servings: 4-6

Ingredients:

Butternut squash: 1 medium
Corn starch/ corn flour: two tbsp
Olive oil: 1-2 tbsp
Salt: to taste
Black pepper: 1/2tsp, freshly soil (optional).

Method:

Peel the butternut squeeze using a regular peeler, withdraw the seeds as well as and thus cutting it into 0.75 centimeter thick sticks/strips.

Preheat the oven to 400 deg F.

Line a baking canvass alongside parchment newspaper or foil as well as continue ready.

Place the butternut squeeze strips inwards a plastic bag/ ziplock bag. Add corn flour, unopen the pocketbook as well as milkshake it good until all the butternut squeeze pieces are coated alongside it.

Place the butternut squeeze strips on the baking canvass inwards a unmarried layer. DO NOT OVERCROWD. If you lot overcrowd the strips volition non move crisp. You powerfulness convey to purpose to a greater extent than than i baking canvass or brand to a greater extent than than i batch. I made two batches using two big sheets.

Lightly brush the butternut squeeze pieces alongside olive oil.

Place the baking tray on the middle rack. Bake for xv mins, later which rotate the tray as well as bake for xv to a greater extent than minutes or until the fries are crispy plenty for your taste. Don't permit them instruct burnt.

Take the tray out, sprinkle tabular array salt as well as dark pepper, toss the fries alongside it.

The fries volition live crispy on the exterior as well as soft inwards the middle. They shrink significantly upon baking, thus you lot powerfulness terminate upward alongside a much smaller quantity than what you lot started with.

Serve hot, guide out of the oven alongside to a greater extent than or less ketchup.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

Cutting as well as peeling gourds/ squashes tin live challenging.The easiest as well as best agency to create it is to pare it offset using a regular peeler as well as and thus slice/cut it whatever agency you lot wish.

You tin also house it for a few minutes inwards the oven/ microwave as well as and thus cutting it. This method yet does non operate for fries!

Tip for salubrious living:

Butternut squash is a really nutrient-rich food. It is i of the offset vegetables that my children stared eating.

Food for thought:

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