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Coal-Roasted Butternut Squash

Here's how you make Coal-Roasted Butternut Squash
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  • Servings: 8
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 60m
  • The following recipe serves 8 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 1/4 pounds squash (4 small butternut squash, halved lengthwise and seeded)
  • 4 heads garlic (tops trimmed)
  • 1 bunch thyme
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • Kosher salt
  • Pepper
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat a charcoal grill to medium high heat. In a bowl sat 5 feet of kitchen twin in water.

  • Step 2: Set the squash halves cut is up, making sure to keep corresponding halves together. Add the garlic bulbs to the hollows of every other squash half. Add eh herbs to the other empty halves. Drizzle the squash with the olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Reassemble the halves, then tie the top and bottom of each squash with the twine.

  • Step 3: Place the squash directly on the coals; let cook, rotating with tongs every 15 minutes to char evenly all over (if the strings burn away, simple balance eh squash halves atop of each other). Remove when the squash gives no resistance with pierced with a paring knife (45-60 minutes).

  • Step 4: Open the squash and remove the garlic and thyme. Top the cut ties with flaky seas salt, more black pepper, and a drizzle of olive oil and serve.


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