Receta Roasted Butternut With Spinach Pesto And Pumpkin Seeds Recipe – Reuben Riffel
The May issue of Women’s Health has a feature on butternut using recipes from South African celebrity chefs. The four chefs that contributed their recipes are Reuben Riffel, Pete Goff-Wood, Luke Dale-Roberts and Margot Janse. I was offered the opportunity to blog a recipe of my choice, as well as offer my own recipe using butternut to tie in with this article. Last week you will have seen my recipe for roasted butternut soup, and when I paged through the four recipes I decided to make Reuben’s roasted butternut dish, as the flavours were similar to the dish I had made. The recipe I am including below is not the original recipe which appears in the magazine. I had to make a few changes for various reasons.
the recipe called for 4 garlic cloves which have to be weighed as you have to have ginger in equal weight to the garlic to make the purée. Using 4 garlic cloves the purée was more like flavoured water and so I doubled this. The purée was still very loose but I decided that it would be OK. It created quite a liquid mass when added to the oil but that worked out fine by the time everything was blended
I had to double the roasting time to get soft butternut
I thought I had preserved lemons at home, but I was mistaken – I remember Jenny Morris saying on her TV show that you can use 1 unwaxed lemon and a good pinch of salt to replace a preserved lemon, so this is what I did
the recipe makes a HUGE bowl of pesto. I used some of the leftover pesto to cook chicken in the next night and to flavour some quinoa. I am sure it can be frozen though, so it won’t go to waste
The recipe calls for pumpkin seeds with no weight given. I toasted off 30g but you can do as much or as little as you like. Personally, I preferred the pumpkin seeds that I roasted for my soup
This pesto is zingy and tangy and the flavours really pop in your mouth. I will definitely make this again with a few variations!
do you make recipes from magazines?
© Roasted Butternut With Spinach Pesto And Pumpkin Seeds
Roasted Butternut With Spinach Pesto And Pumpkin Seeds Recipe – Reuben Riffel
Adapted from Women's Health May 2013
Ingredients:
- for the butternut
- 1 butternut, peeled and cubed
- Olive oil for drizzling
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
- for the pesto
- 40g garlic cloves
- 40g fresh root ginger, peeled
- 60mls olive oil
- 5mls ground cumin
- 5mls smoked paprika
- 200g baby spinach
- 240g peppadews, cubed
- Rind of 1 lemon, finely chopped
- to serve
- 30g pumpkin seeds, toasted
Method:
for the butternut
Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
Place the butternut into a large roasting pan and drizzle with olive oil
Season to taste and roast for 40 minutes
for the pesto
Put the garlic and ginger into a food processor (don’t wash after you make the purée as you will use it again)
Add 60mls water and process until it forms a purée – this will be very watery!
In a large frying pan, heat the olive oil over a low heat
Add the garlic and ginger purée and fry lightly until you can smell the ginger
Add the cumin and cook until you can smell the spices
Add the paprika and toss the spinach through the oil a small handful at a time until it is all cooked
Remove from the heat and stir in the peppadews and lemon rind
Add a generous pinch of salt and mix in
Chop the pesto in a food processor
to serve
Toss the pesto through the butternut and served topped with pumpkin seeds
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I am a foodie who is passionate about regional and seasonal produce. I live in a cottage by the sea with my husband, our three dogs, a tortoise and a fish. We are busy building a house which is an adventure all in itself. Each year we visit a new place to experience the food of the area.