Step four:Īdd to the preheated oven, roast for 20-25 minutes, or until a fork is easily pierces through the skin of the squash. Step three:īrush the cut side of the squash with olive oil, kosher salt, and black pepper. I typically just use a simple soup spoon for the scooping.ĭon’t forget to save the seeds and roast them up! If you’re looking for something super fun use the seeds to make my sweet salty roasted pumpkin seeds.Įxcept the seeds you’ll use will obviously be from the honeynut squash versus a pumpkin. Step two:Īfer the honeynut squash is cut in half scoop out the seeds and the stringy insides. Honeynut is a sweet, petite squash that looks like a mini butternut if you cant find it, butternut, red kuri or delicata squash are great substitutes.
As a combination of butternut and buttercup types, 'Honeynut' is very sweet with very smooth-textured flesh.
and line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Variety Information: 4'5' fruits start out green with orange mottling, ripening to a pale terracotta. After a couple of years, the honeynut squash was born. In 2009, Chef Dan Barber challenged Michael Mazourek, a squash breeder to make a better tasting butternut squash and make it smaller. Honeynut squash is a new hybrid variety of Cucurbita moschata, developed by Cornell University, and a member of the Cucurbitaceae family along with pumpkins and. If you do this just becareful that the squash might be hot after you take it out of the oven.Īlso, now is the time to preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. What is Honeynut Squash Honeynut squash are essentially mini personal-sized butternut squash and have only been in existence for less than a decade. Sometimes squash can be VERY hard to cut through so if your squash is very hard, or you don’t have a super sharp knife, you can prick the skin with a fork and microwave for a few minutes to help soften the squash. The 12 cm (5 in) long fruit weigh from 1-1.5 lbs and have a very sweet and rich flavoured deep orange flesh.
Step one:įirst, you’ll want to carefully cut your squash in half the lenghtwise. Mini butternut squash on a compact bush plant. It turns out super delicious every time and only needs to roast for about 20-25 minutes. Roasted honeynut squash could not be easier.