Oven Roasted Squash With Lemon Tahini Sauce
From PongoUSA 11 years ago
- 45 min to make
- Serves 4
Squash really shines when roasted in a hot oven until nicely caramelized and soft. Many pumpkins, like acorn or delicata you don't even need to peel. In this particular recipe flavor is added with cumin and chile and a drizzle of the tart lemon tahini sauce. Read more We will have it more often, for sure, after our teenage daughter said : You know, Dad, I think, pumpkin is my new favorite vegetable :) See less
Ingredients
- 1 small kabocha squash or large acorn squash (1 pound), scrubbed, cut into 1-inch-thick wedges, seeded shopping list
- 1 1-pound delicata squash, scrubbed, cut into 1-inch-thick wedges or rings, seeded shopping list
- OR butternut squash, peeled, cut into 3/4 inch wedges shopping list
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided shopping list
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cumin seeds, divided shopping list
- 2 ts chile powder shopping list
- kosher salt, freshly ground pepper shopping list
- 1 onion, peeled, halved lengthwise, cut lengthwise into 1/2 inch wedges shopping list
lemon tahini Sauce
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice shopping list
- 1 tablespoon tahini (sesame seed paste) shopping list
- 1 tb Aioli shopping list
- 2 tb chicken broth shopping list
- 1 tb olive oil shopping list
- Aleppo pepper or crushed red pepper flakes shopping list
How to make it
- Arrange racks in upper and lower thirds of oven; preheat to 425°.
- Put pumpkins and onion in a big bowl, drizzle with olive oil, cumin seds, chile powder and s+p, mix. Divide between 2 baking pans and roast for 30 - 40 min., turning every 10 min. until nicely caramelized and soft.
- Meanwhile, whisk lemon juice, tahini, aioli and broth in a small bowl to blend. Gradually whisk in oil. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer squash to a platter. Drizzle tahini sauce over and sprinkle with Aleppo pepper.
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