Squash & coconut curry
Cooking time
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 20 mins Ready in 30 minutesSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 2Take five ingredients and whip up this quick, healthy, vegetarian curry
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
- Easily doubled
- Vegetarian
- Egg-free
Nutrition
- kcalories
- 458
- protein
- 7g
- carbs
- 35g
- fat
- 33g
- saturates
- 28g
- fibre
- 6g
- sugar
- 23g
- salt
- 0.64g
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Madras curry paste
- 1 large butternut squash (600g/1lb 5oz peeled weight), chopped into medium size chunks
- 1 red pepper, halved, deseeded and roughly chopped into chunks
- 400g can reduced-fat coconut milk
- small bunch coriander, roughly chopped
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Method
- Heat a large frying pan or wok, tip in the curry paste and fry for 1 min. Add the squash and red pepper, then toss well in the paste.
- Pour in the coconut milk with 200ml water and bring to a simmer. Cook for 15-20 mins or until the butternut squash is very tender and the sauce has thickened. Season to taste, then serve scattered with chopped coriander and naan bread or rice.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2006
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
After reading other comments, I started off by frying an onion and some garlic, and as I couldn't get squash used sweet potatoes instead. Also added a handful of peas and a couple of tomatoes. I used full fat coconut milk and not quite as much water as stated in the recipe. The look on my husband's face when I served it up said it all - no meat!! I am a vegetarian and have recently decided NOT to cook meat/poultry for the rest of my family - the only one complaining is DH! I found it a bit on the sweet and bland side, so next time will try something else (any ideas?) and also as suggested by Kathy a squeeze of lime and a chilli.
This is so easy and absolutely delicious! I start by gently frying a couple of sliced onions in a drop of oil then add korma paste and whatever vegetables I have to hand - carrots, swede, courgette, sweet potato and of course, butternut squash. I also add a tin of chickpeas to give it a bit more 'body' and protein. My daughter took some for lunch last week and was the envy of the office! Highly recommended.
Tried this a number of times as determined to make it work it for a large gathering. The 3 times I made it never needed the water. Added small diced sweet potato so if would soften so much it would help thicken it too. I used full fat coconut milk as I thought if would help make it taste richer and lastly the bit that helped really top it off a it still tasted a bit 'thin', was some freshly grated garam masala (you can buy a 'mill' with garam masala like a ready filled pepper mill!). Worked a treat in the end! O yes I fried up some onion with it too.
Good curry! As always on these recipes the butternut squash takes longer than stated to cook. I used red onion and garlic and fried them for a bit, then paste, then squash, pepper, coconut milk and water. I also added some spinach towards the end. Great recipe, I think the nutritional value is wrong though, can't be 28g saturated fat!
Anyway good curry, had it with some brown rice. Thanks.
'Healthy"? With 33g fat, 28g sat fat? No, no, no. Butternut squash is so sweet on its own and, coupled with sugary curry paste, it really doesn't need a whole can of coconut milk.
I use some block coconut grated into boiling water. Just as good. You could add carrot or sweet potato, but please, BBC Good Food, remove the 'healthy' tag from this recipe!
'Healthy"? With 33g fat, 28g sat fat? No, no, no. Butternut squash is so sweet on its own and, coupled with sugary curry paste, it really doesn't need a whole can of coconut milk.
I use some block coconut grated into boiling water. Just as good. You could add carrot or sweet potato, but please, BBC Good Food, remove the 'healthy' tag from this recipe!
'Healthy"? With 33g fat, 28g sat fat? No, no, no. Butternut squash is so sweet on its own and, coupled with sugary curry paste, it really doesn't need a whole can of coconut milk.
I use some block coconut grated into boiling water. Just as good. You could add carrot or sweet potato, but please, BBC Good Food, remove the 'healthy' tag from this recipe!
'Healthy"? With 33g fat, 28g sat fat? No, no, no. Butternut squash is so sweet on its own and, coupled with sugary curry paste, it really doesn't need a whole can of coconut milk.
I use some block coconut grated into boiling water. Just as good. You could add carrot or sweet potato, but please, BBC Good Food, remove the 'healthy' tag from this recipe!
I used Balti curry paste as thats what I had and I added some sweet potato, courgette, spinach, peas and tomatoes to make it more interesting but the sauce took a lot longer than it said to reduce and for the squash to cook and the result was nice but very bland even after my adding half a tsp of chilli powder. Next time definintely more curry paste/ hotter paste and more chilli and less liquid/ no water.
