Smoke my squash

Name: Smoke my squash
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: ¼ tsp sweet smoked paprika; 225 g/8 oz/1⅔ cups cooked long-grain white rice (or cook heaped ½ cup raw rice); 1 tbsp chopped parsley leaves, plus extra to serve; 4 tbsp soft goats’ cheese; 75 g/2½ oz chopped sundried tomatoes; 4 whole gem squashes or 2 butternut squash; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 garlic clove, finely chopped; 115 g/4 oz chorizo sausage, very finely diced; 1 red pepper, deseeded and finely diced

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 10

Appears in

Pimp My Rice

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

Main course

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