The delicious flavour of butternut squash makes Amanda Hamilton's simple salad taste amazing.

Ingredients

1 apple, medium
1/4 butternut squash, medium
3/4 handful of fresh spinach
6  cherry tomato
1.5 tsp sesame seeds
10 ml olive oil
1/2 juice of a lemon

Method

  1. Pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees or gas mark 6.
  2. Peel, de-seed and dice the butternut squash, add it to a roasting tin, lightly coat it with oil and place it in the oven for 30 mins or until cooked.
  3. In a bowl mix together the spinach, halved cherry tomatoes, sesame seeds, diced apple, olive oil, lemon juice and salt and pepper.
  4. Add in the butternut squash and mix well before serving on a plate.

If you are preparing the salad in advance, cool the butternut squash before mixing it in.