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The market · Vegetables · The Americas, Northern and Central Europe

Butternut squash

A dense, sweet winter squash that roasts to caramel at the edges.

sweet · nutty
Butternut squashat its peak

What to do with it

Classics built on it
MoroccanCouscous with seven vegetablesSteamed couscous heaped round meat and a broth of seven vegetables — carrot, turnip, squash, courgette, cabbage, tomato, chickpeas — with broth to pour over.No one here has made it yetPeruvianPicaronesRings of squash and sweet potato dough, fried and drenched in a spiced syrup of chancaca.No one here has made it yet

Goes with

sagebutterchillibrown butter

Knowing it

Where to buy
Anywhere. Heavy, with a matt skin.
When it's best
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September to December, and it stores through winter.
Northern hemisphere.
Where it's from
The Americas · Creole and Cajun, Mexican, Jamaican, Peruvian, Brazilian
Northern and Central Europe · Polish, Nordic and Baltic rye
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