How to steam butternut squash in a collapsible steamer basket. Totally simple, totally clean and pure tasting. WAY BACK IN 2007 So what self-respecting vegetable-recipe website like A Veggie Venture takes 2+ years to figure out how to steam winter squash? No question what held me back: I like ten fingers! I was unwilling to sacrifice a single one to a squash, no-siree!
Here's the trick – and it takes all of six minutes to cut a butternut squash into cubes, definitely a good investment of time for how gorgeous steamed winter squash turns out. Better yet? I checked: yep, all fingers present and accounted for. Here's how you cut an unwieldy butternut squash into cubes. Do it once and you'll never look back.
IN WORDS First slice off the stem end and the blossom end, this will give you flat surfaces to steady your work. Then cut off the "neck" of a butternut squash, those are the pale brown ones with a round bulb on one end and a long neck – with a sharp knife, this is hard at all. Then use a vegetable peeler or the knife to slice off the thick skin – some cooks prefer a vegetable peeler, I use a smaller knife vs a big chef's knife. Do keep the neck's flat end of the neck steady on a cutting board, slicing top to bottom. Then cut the neck into rounds about an inch thick, then stack a couple at a time to cut into cubes. That's it!
IN PICTURES See how to cut, peel & cube a butternut squash and keep all ten fingers for step-by-step photo illustrations of this technique. This is one of A Veggie Venture's top pages, it really helps people understand the mechanics of cutting up a butternut squash.
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