Apple & Bacon Butternut Squash Hash
About 2 cups peeled and diced butternut squash (fresh not frozen)
1 cup diced tart apples (about 1 large apple, use Granny Smiths for 21DSD)
4-5 strips Bacon
1/4 cup or more chopped green onions
1/2 tsp coarse ground salt (or to taste)
fresh cracked pepper to taste
We like to add a handful of pecans at the end too.
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to broil (you can skip the broiling and cook everything in the pan too, but pre cook the butternut squash first)
2. After prepping the ingredients, heat a large skillet over a medium heat.
3. While the skillet is heating up, spread the diced butternut squash out evenly onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Place under the broiler. Boil the butternut squash till it just starts to brown in spots and develop a skin, takes about 10-15 minutes. Stir once halfway through cooking. Watch that it doesn’t burn to much though. Remove from the oven.
4. While the butternut squash is baking, add the bacon to the preheated skillet. Cook till crispy, then set aside to drain and cool, then break into pieces. Leave the bacon fat in the skillet for frying the squash.
5. Add all the butternut squash and apples to the bacon fat (if it has cooled down too much reheat before adding these ingredients) Continue to cook and stir the hash over medium-medium high heat until the apples just begin to soften. It helps to spread the hash evenly around the pan, then let it sit for a moment before continuing to flip/stir it around again. This will help it to ‘brown’ instead of steam itself, which could result in a soggy hash.
6. Remove from the heat, add the bacon pieces, scallions, coarse salt and cracked pepper to taste (and pecans). Toss to combine.
Finally got around to making this dish and I'm sad I didn't make it earlier… Wowza woman. It's insane….. I ordered purple potatoes from my coop, so decided to use that instead of the squash (but think the squash would be extraordinary). My hubby gobbled it up. One proud wifey (thanks to your ridiculous recipes :)… muaahh!
Thank you!!! Glad you liked it. You know, if I could eat potatoes, I think purple potatoes would have been exactly my next choice. I made rosemary roasted ones for a wedding last year…AMAZING!
This looks delicious! I will be making this and adding two sunny-side up eggs on top! Thanks for the inspiration!
Made this lastnight, I forgot the apples, but it was still fabulous! I knew I was forgetting something too, when I was making it.
Love your photo and will make this hash!
Made this again Saturday night. This time I used Sweet Potatoes and remembered the apples. It was so good!
This was AMAZING! Can't wait to make it agian 🙂
Cooking on the stove right now…can't wait to mow it down. Thanks for sharing. I'll be very busy the next weeks/months trying out your recipes.
Cooking on the stove right now…can't wait to mow it down. Thanks for sharing. I'll be very busy the next weeks/months trying out your recipes.
Omigoodness Omigoodness! This is so delicious! This hash will definitely be making weekly rounds at my house–it's so filling, but the apples and baked squash make it not taste so…heavy?! Is that possible with bacon? We cooked a couple of sunny-side-up eggs and threw them on top, and bam–dinner!
LOVE this recipe–you're my hero!
Made this for breakfast with leftover bacon. It was delicious!!! Looking forward to making it with pecans, that will make a great fall side dish 🙂
Holy cats! So crazy delicious. I made the butternut into tiny cubes and grabbed two apples from our trees in the backyard. I used a whole red onion because we love carmelized onion, and added some cinnamon and cayenne to it all. AMAZING. I love love love hash, and this is either #1 or #2….I do love me some corned beef hash 🙂
Hey there,
Wasn't sure where to post, but I'm looking for your gnocchi recipe that I saved and wanted to try! It looks like it no longer exists on your blog? Let me know
–Kay
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe! I just found it on Pinterest last week and have already made it twice 🙂
I found this on pinterest. I didn't have apples so I used frozen blueberries instead, with the pecans. I felt so guilty at the first bite, like I was eating cobbler for breakfast. Halfway through I was so full I couldn't cram another bite in. This recipe is one of my new favs!
Made this for dinner tonight!!! Soooo yummy!! TFS!!
This looks great! 🙂
I wanted to leave a comment and let you know that although you posted this 6 years ago, I just discovered it yesterday and it is being enjoyed for the first time today! Excellent recipe. Thank you!
Oh wow, that is awesome. I can’t thank you enough for sharing with me!