Recipe: Butternut squash (or pumpkin!) blue cheese gnocchi tray bake 

Prep time – 10 mins 

Cook time – 45 mins (giving you enough time to get dolled up) 

Serves 4 

Ingredients:

  • 400g of gnocchi 
  • 1 red onion 
  • 100g of blue cheese 
  • 500g butternut squash or pumpkin 
  • A good handful of cherry tomatoes 
  • ½ jar of red pesto 
  • Splash of white wine 
  • Salt and pepper 
  • Olive oil  
  • Handful of spinach 

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. 

Peel, chop and cube veg, and bung everything into an oven dish with the gnocchi and tomatoes. Splash on some olive oil, pour yourself a glass of wine and add a splash to the dish. Season generously. 

Cook until the squash is cutlery knife tender – I’d allow a mindful 40 mins.  

Remove from oven, adorn with crumbled-up blue cheese and even dabbles of pesto and put in the oven for another 5 mins. 

Remove from the oven and you can even add some grated parmesan and a drizzle of balsamic. Bring to the table for you and your friends to enjoy!  

Image by Molly Mauleverer