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Sugar Roasted Squash with Bacon

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Prep

15 min

Bake

50 mins

Serves

4

Difficulty

Medium

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This slightly sweet but also savoury dish is perfect for an Autumnal dinner party. The sweetness of the sugar and savoury flavour of the bacon go great together! Top it off with nuts for a fuller flavour on your palette.

made using

Unrefined Demerara

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Step 1

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas Mark 6. Put the squash and onions into a baking tray. Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with a little cinnamon and season well.

Step 2

Cover the tray with foil and roast for 25 minutes.

Step 3

Meanwhile, mix the hazelnuts, cayenne pepper and Tate & Lyle Demerara Sugar together in a bowl.

Step 4

Remove the baking tray from the oven, scatter the bacon pieces over the squash, then top with the nut mix.

Step 5

Place back in the oven, uncovered this time, for another 25 minutes before serving.

Ingredients – 9 items

Serving

1

Butternut Squash

Unpeeled, halved, seeded and cut into chunks

1
Red-onion

Red onion

Peeled and cut into wedges

2
Olive-oil

Extra virgin olive oil

3 tbsp
Cinnamon

Cinnamon powder

2 pinch

Salt and pepper

To season

Hazelnuts

Hazelnuts

Roughly chopped

50 g
Cayenne pepper

Cayenne pepper

1 pinch
Fairtrade Unrefined Demerara

Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Demerara Sugar

1 tbsp
Crispy bacon

Crispy bacon

Unsmoked, cut into cubes or lardons

200 g

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