recipe: week 1 - roast squash with lentils and goats cheese

[a quick intro: every pick-up comes with a small newsletter giving community and organization news, where each item in your bags is from (which is wicked neat) and a recipe including one or more of the ingredients in that week's bag (which is freakin awesome). sometimes the recipe calls for a fruit or veg that is in the standard (bigger) bags, as was the case last week, but chances are sooner or later it will show up in the small bags (as is the case this week). totally using last week's recipe on this weeks squash.]


Roast squash with lentils and goats cheese

-2 medium red onions, peeled and halved
-salt and pepper
-extra virgin olive oil
-2 decent cloves of garlic, finely chopped
-250g puy lentils
-200g soft white goats cheese
-500g squash, deseeded
-2 sprigs rosemary
-1 stick of celery, finely chopped
-1 bay leaf
-1 tbsp balsamic vinegar

heat the oven to 180c/350f/gas mark 4. finely shop one of the onion halves and keep to one side. cut each of the remaining halves into four wedges. put in a roasting tin with the squash chunks, season well, then add rosemary leaves and splash with olive oil. put in the oven for 40-45 minutes, turning midway through, until the squash and onions are soft. meanwhile, heat a couple of tbsp of olive oil in a saucepan, then add the chopped onion half, the celery, garlic and bay leaf, plus the rest of the rosemary. cook over a gentle heat for about 5-10 minutes, until the vegetables have softened, then add the lentils and 1 litre of water. bring to a boil, them simmer for 30 minutes, until lentils are just soft. train off all but 4-5 tbsp of the liquid, then add 1/2 to 1 tsp salt, tasting as you go, and plenty of ground pepper. stir in the balsamic vinegar and 2 tbsp olive oil. divide the lentils between four bowls and scatter too with the onions, squash and any olive oil and herbs from the baking tray. dot with goats cheese, season again and splash more olive oil.


*every recipe can be found here on the growing communities webpage.
and they also do this really neat thing where they sort the recipes at the top of the page depending on what's in that weeks bags. it is every so helpful.