Smoke my squash

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      1 hr 10

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Pimp My Rice: Over 100 inspirational rice recipes from around the world

By Nisha Katona

Published 2017

  • About

Okay, so my squash of preference here is the round, dark green gem squash but you may prefer butternut. The more lacklustre they are in flavour the better. When the brazen smoked chorizo moves in, it becomes flavour karaoke.

Ingredients

  • 4 whole gem squashes or 2 butternut squash
  • 2 tbsp olive oil

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4.

If you are using gem squash, trim the base of each squash, so that it can stand flat, and slice off the top. Scoop out the seeds and discard them. If you use butternut squash, cut in half lengthways, scoop out the seeds and about 1cm/¾in o