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Slice it up and roast it, and the sweet flavors come out to play.

Squash types skin#

You don’t need to peel the skin before cooking, so that makes it one of the more low-maintenance types of squash to cook with. This is another cylinder-shaped squash, but it’s a little more unique with thin green stripes through its ridges.

Their unique and fun appearance is why they’re often used as centerpieces, but they are delicious to eat as well, with a sweet and buttery flavor. Their green and orange specks define carnival squash. The flesh, on the other hand, is a deep orange. They have a light beige skin that’s slightly orange. Butternut squashĪs one of the more popular winter squash varieties, butternut squash is available year-round with a peak season in the winter and fall. It’s also often sliced and roasted for a delicious side dish. Their flesh is sweet, and it’s excellent to puree for making soup. Also named after their shape, resembling a peanut butter cup, buttercup squash has orange flesh and green skin. Yes, buttercup, not butternut (we’ll get to that next). The thick skin is discarded before eating or cooking only the flesh is edible. They are available year-round but are considered in season during the fall and winter. Banana squashīanana squash is cylinder-shaped, and they are a light pinkish-orange hue. A good balance of both colors means it’s fresh too much yellow, and it may be overripened. Their skin is a combination of yellow and deep green. As the name indicates, they’re shaped like acorns. One of the first, if not the first type of squash in America, acorn squash grows to be between 1 and 3 pounds. Of course, you can also spiralize summer squash into zoodles, a popular health hack.

You can roast it, grill it, and even puree into soup. So, what are some fun ways to cook with squash? It makes a delicious sauteed side. While there is summer squash and winter squash, both are warm-weather plants, and many types of them are available year long. Squash is grown mostly in late spring and early summer, and depending on the variety they take between 50 and 100 days to mature. However, while pumpkins may be a type of squash, gourds are not. Gourds, pumpkins, and squash are often lumped into the same category, and that’s because they come from the same plant family: Cucurbitaceae. However, squash is a fruit because it contains seeds and they flower. First, to settle the debate: Is squash a fruit or a vegetable? Because we tend to cook squash, many tend to assume it’s a vegetable.