Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Flatbread

Prepare dinner as soon as, eat twice! You will get two meals out of this recipe: Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Flatbread and Butternut Squash Penne.

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I’m fairly enthusiastic about this submit. It options a few of my favourite elements: butternut squash, caramelized onions, and sage. And it’s excellent for fall! However better of all, it’s a collaboration with a tremendous meals photographer, Rikki Snyder. Oh, and it has an idea too! An idea!

After emailing forwards and backwards for some time, Rikki and I made a decision to work collectively on just a few posts. I’ve all the time felt that my power as a meals blogger is recipe growth; whereas I really like taking photos, I’d be mendacity if I mentioned it wasn’t a wrestle at instances. And since Rikki takes beautiful images, it appeared like a enjoyable concept for me to develop some recipes and for Rikki to {photograph} them. At present I’m posting the primary recipe, a Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Flatbread, and tomorrow Rikki shall be publishing a recipe for Penne with Butternut Squash and Kale on her weblog.

The widespread denominator within the recipes? Butternut squash! (And caramelized onions too.) Fall is often a busy time. The lazy, relaxed days of summer time are over. Now the children are again at school, days are shorter, and straightforward meals are much-needed. Properly, listed here are two meal concepts to make life just a little bit much less hectic—at the very least round dinnertime.

In regards to the Recipe

Each the pasta and the flatbread begin with roasted butternut squash and caramelized onions. You can also make these over the weekend or the evening earlier than. You’ll use half of them in every recipe. Whereas the roasted squash and caramelized onions take just a little little bit of time to make, they’re pretty hands-off recipes. With each of these ready upfront, the pasta and flatbread are every performed in 20 minutes or much less.

The most effective factor about these two meals is that not solely are they straightforward, however they’re scrumptious. As a result of regardless that fall is a busy time, rushed meals don’t all the time have to come back out of a field or a can—with just a little little bit of planning, you may have a fast home made meal like this rustic butternut squash flatbread. And belief me, having eaten many meals from a field in my day, this flatbread is manner higher.

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Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Flatbread

Make a batch of roasted butternut squash and caramelized onions forward of time and get two meals out of them: this Butternut Squash & Caramelized Onion Flatbread and Penne with Butternut Squash & Kale.

• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Prepare dinner Time: 15 minutes
• Complete Time: 20 minutes
• Yield: 4

Substances

Roasted Butternut Squash

• 1 additional giant butternut squash, lower into 1-inch chunks
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• salt + pepper, to style

Caramelized Onions

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• three giant onions, halved & thinly sliced
• salt + pepper, to style

Flatbread

• 1 ready pizza crust
• half Caramelized Onions (above)
• half cup Fontina or Italian mix cheese, shredded
• half Roasted Butternut Squash (above)
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 2 tbsp sage leaves, lower into ribbons
• 2 tbsp toasted walnuts, chopped (non-compulsory)

Directions

Roasted Butternut Squash

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Divide squash onto 2 rimmed baking sheets; drizzle every sheet with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and toss to coat.
3. Bake for 45–50 minutes or till tender.
4. Reserve half for penne recipe.

Caramelized Onions

1. Warmth oil in a big skillet over low warmth.
2. Add onions and a pinch of salt. Prepare dinner till utterly caramelized, stirring sometimes at first and extra usually as onions start to brown. Relying in your range, this might take anyplace from 30 minutes to over an hour.
3. Season with freshly floor pepper.
4. Reserve half for penne recipe.

Flatbread

1. Preheat oven to temperature indicated on pizza crust package deal.
2. High crust with caramelized onions, cheese, and squash.
3. Bake for time on package deal or till squash is heated by and cheese has melted.
4. Whereas pizza is baking, warmth oil in small skillet over medium excessive warmth. Add sage leaves and saute, stirring always, for about three minutes or till leaves are crispy, however nonetheless inexperienced.
5. Sprinkle sage leaves and walnuts on pizza earlier than serving.

Notes

Prep and cook dinner time are for flatbread solely. Should you’re making the caramelized onions and butternut squash on the identical day you’re making the flatbread, permit about an additional hour.

This submit was initially printed on 24 September 2012.