An easy and delicious Winter Butternut Squash Salad recipe, super quick to make and topped with a tasty fried egg!
Healthy Eating
It’s January and shock horror I am jumping back on the healthy eating bandwagon. Along with pretty much every other adult in this country!
The Christmas break has been a delicious couple of weeks!
Filled with chocolates, cheese, crackers, wine… just to name a small amount of what I have consumed!
But the new year has arrived and I’m ready to start eating in a more balalnced and healthy way.
Healthy Made Easy
I previously started a series of posts and recipes called Healthy Made Easy in an attempt to focus on my own health and fitness and not just the kids’.
You can read more about my story here!
As cliche as it seems at this time of year, I’m now determined to get myself straight back on track after the deliciousness of Christmas and the festive season.
Healthy Recipes
Healthy eating when you have a family can be difficult!
But as you’ll see from the recipes in my Healthy Made Easy category, you can make healthy breakfasts, lunches and dinners that the whole family will eat.
No one wants to be cooking more than one type of meal of an evening.
So I will show you how just by making a few tweaks to yours how you can just cook one family meal but still keep it healthy.
Winter Salad
Today I made this Winter Butternut Squash Salad. To be honest it wasn’t something I intended on sharing on the blog.
It’s one of those recipes that I pretty much made up as I went along. BUT it was so tasty I couldn’t keep it to myself!
It may seem like the completely wrong time of the year to be eating a chopped salad.
But the roasted butternut squash adds such warmth to the plate that it doesn’t feel like a summer meal at all.
A crispy fried egg added to the top also makes this recipe super comforting.
This recipe is perfect if you are a work or stay at home parent as it’s so quick and easy to throw together.
You can even pre-chop the squash the night before and store it in the fridge, ready to bung in the oven the next day.
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Winter Butternut Squash Salad
Prep Time: 4 mins- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 19 minutes
Yield: 1 1x
Category: Main Meal
Cuisine: Healthy Recipes- Diet: Vegetarian
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An easy and delicious Winter Butternut Squash Salad recipe, super quick to make and topped with a tasty fried egg!
Ingredients
- 300g butternut squash
- 1 tsp olive oil
- ½ tsp mixed dried herbs or dried oregano
- 70g lettuce leaves
- 1 tomato
- ¼ cucumber
- 1 medium egg
- olive oil and balsamic vinegar
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180c.
- Peel the butternut squash and chop it into small roughly 1 inch cubes. Add to a baking tray and toss with the olive oil and dried herbs. Bake for 15-20 minutes until just soft.
- Meanwhile make the salad by adding the lettuce leaves to a plate or bowl. Chop the tomato and cucumber and add those too.
- Crack the egg into a frying pan (can use oil to fry depending if the pan is non-stick) and fry for 3-4 mins until starting to crisp.
- When the squash is cooked, remove it from the oven and add it to the salad. Drizzle on the olive oil and balsamic vinegar and top with the fried egg.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Maya says
Best winter salad, I enjoyed every mouthful.
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Vicky says
Tasty and good for you ! what more could you want? Thank you for coming back to us Maya. Please let us know if you try anymore of our salad recipes. We love hearing your feedback.
Melody H says
Great winter salad. thanks for sharing.
★★★★★
Vicky says
Glad you enjoyed it! we also have more salad ideas, take a look. Have a good weekend.
Tabitha says
Love this idea of a winter salad!
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ukuze says
What a amazing recipe u have shared.really nice and healthy thanks for sharing
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