How to cook potato and butternut squash vegetarian gratin
Cook Potato and Butternut Squash Vegetarian Gratin
5
STEPS
INGREDIENTS
Peel and cut the potatoes into pieces
Out them in a tier steamer and cook until soft
When soft set aside to let cool
Peel and remove the seeds of the butternut squash
Slice it to 1/2cm thick slices
Place it in a baking tray with greaseproof paper. Cover with some thyme and drizzle with olive oil. Cook for 10-15min at 200C
Remove when tender and dry, before it starts roasting possibly. If it roasts on the outside faster than it cook on the inside cover with foil and reduce the temperature
Peel the large carrot
Dice it into 1cm cubes
Chop coarsely the onion
Add them to a pan with some olive oil and a splash of water, sauté regularly
Peel the garlic cloves and crush them into the pan
Keep sautéing and add more or less water according to how boiled you want the carrots to be
Dice the courgette to approximately the same size of the carrot
Add it to the pan, add some olive oil as needed
Chop the parsley
Add it to the pan, add also seasoning to taste
Sauté until courgette are tender and roasted on the outside. Adjust water and heat to control the cooking pf the courgettes.
Mash the potatoes into a bowl
Mash also the butternut squash
Add the egg, nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste, mix everything well with a spoon
Fold in the carrots and courgettes
You should achieve a thick dough like this, if too soft you can add some flour, cornstarch or breadcrumbs
Coat bottom and sides of a small baking bowl with sunflower seeds oil (the quantities I used yielded a good 4 of these)
The coat with breadcrumbs
Scoop the mix in
Gently press it and even it out with the back of a spoon
Shave some fresh parmesan on top
Crack some black pepper and bake for a good 20-30min in a 200C preheated pven
In a separate baking tray add the vine grape tomatoes, drizzle with olive oil and season with black pepper and salt. Bake for 10min
Check the consistency with a toothpick, but if you were starting with a thick mix you should be fine. Turn on the grill for the last 3-5min to brown the top.
Plate with the grape vine tomatoes, drizzle with olive oil
Enjoy!
- 300.0g Potatoes
- 200.0g Butternut squash
- 1/2 Onion
- 2.0 Garlic cloves
- 1/8bnch Parsley
- 1.0 Carrot
- 1.0 Courgette
- Thyme
- Vine grape tomatoes to garnish
- Nutmeg
- Salt
- Pepper
- Breadcrumbs
- Sunflower seeds oil
- Olive oil
- 1.0 Egg
- Parmesan
Gioele Nunziatini
Italian born and raised, I moved abroad to pursue a career in engineering. Cooking is what brings me back to my origins, to the flavors of my parents' farm.
London, UK
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