Slow-Cooked Sugared Butternut

Submitted by Miss Annie

"Some vegetable dishes, using the right ingredients, can be transformed into a sweet and interesting side dish that has the flavor of a dessert. Butternut squash is naturally sweet that can be made to taste like dessert."

 

• Ready In: 6hrs 10mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 3 large butternut squash
• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1 (1 1/2 ounce) box raisins

directions

1. Peel and cut squash in half lengthwise, removing seeds.
2. Cut into cubes.
3. Melt butter in slow cooker and then add in the pieces of squash.
4. Sprinkle brown sugar, cinnamon and raisins over the squash cubes and the butter.
5. Mix all ingredients well.
6. Cook on Low for 6 hours.

Reviews

[Sharon123]

Miss Annie, I thought this was mighty good! A new way for me to fix squash! With the leftovers I think I will puree this. Thanks for a yummy dish!

 

[RicksWife]

We loved this recipe, thank you for sharing it! I didn't cook it as long as specified because I wanted it to still be chunky, so I let it go for maybe 3 hrs in the crock pot. It was wonderful! Then the next day I diced two granny smith apples, cooked those in a saucepan with a little butter and brown sugar until tender, then mixed that into the squash leftovers, put it in a casserole dish, and baked until hot. It was delicious all over again! The apples added a nice touch the second time around so I will try that from the start next time.

 

[MizzNezz]

Wow, this is a great recipe! I only had 1 squash, but I did the whole recipe, except I only used 3/4 cup raisins. Put it in my small crock pot, it was great! I could eat this every day! Very easy. Thanks Miss Annie, your recipes ROCK!!

 

[Saturn]

I ended up using 3 acorn squash as the store was out of butternut. And I don't feel that the acorn carried the flavour as well as butternut would have. That's why I didn't add stars. It was very good, but I feel that it would have been better if prepared as written. The leftovers, pureed, worked great in Recipe #43454 though! I will keep this recipe on hand the next time I get butternut squash. Thanks for posting!

 

[Rita1652]

Miss Annie, It did take 20 min prep time. And I think the servings is for more like 10-12 people! I`m giving it 5 stars! It`s very sweet! It smells wonderful for the 6 hours of cooking! Not eye appealing. I will puree the rest!! Since it`s almost there.