This delicious warm salad is perfect for cold months. Yes, it is simple but bursting with flavour, and of course it contains the main autumn ingredient – beautiful winter squash! Slightly sweet roasted butternut squash together with salted feta and fresh spinach leaves create nice and tasty salad, perfect in its simplicity.
And don’t forget to sprinkle the salad with raw pumpkin seeds (as I did.. haha)!
Warm butternut squash salad
Slightly adapted from here
Ingredients
1/2 butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1cm-thick slices
1 medium red onion, cut into wedges
1 orange
fresh spinach leaves, as much as you like
100-150g feta or white/Bulgarian cheese
handful of raw pumpkin seeds
Dressing*
juice of 1/2 orange
2-3 tsp white balsamic or champagne vinegar
1 tsp honey mustard
2-3 tbsp EV olive oil
freshly ground sea salt &white pepper, to taste
Method
- Arrange butternut squash and onion on a baking tray, drizzle everything with olive oil, plus squash with juice of 1/2 orange. Roast in preheated 180C oven for 25 minutes or until squash is soft.
- For the dressing, in a small jar combine all ingredients and shake well. *Adjust to your taste by adding more vinegar or oil.
- Arrange spinach on a serving plate, top with warm squash and onion. Sprinkle with feta and pumpkin seeds. Drizzle with dressing.
Enjoy warm salad!
milkandbun 
I like this colorful and crunchy salad!
You are sweet as always! 🙂 Thanks for commenting!
What a perfect dish for the cold fall/winter months! The salad looks like a meal in itself.
Agree! It was my dinner!😉
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Thanks a lot for that! Glad you liked this simple but very tasty salad! 😀
delicious!
This looks so inviting– and perfect now that we’re trying to et healthier after all our Christmas indulgences! Love the colors together on the plate. thanks!
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Hello, my lovely readers and all! What are you cooking this autumn? Have you tried this nice salad, just a few simple ingredients but full of flavour and different textures in it! And of course the season’s star butternut squash in it, or use pumpkin, both are nice!
And sprinkle the salad with some roasted pumpkin seeds for a lovely crunch!