Bengali Style Squash

If you like Indian food, your ship has come in. Bengali Style Squash is a really tasty recipe based on an actual Bengali recipe for squash.

(To be clear, this is a “cooking with canning you have already done” recipe. This is not a recipe for canning.)

This recipe uses:

Home canned chickpeas

Home canned squash

The recipe

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Bengali Style Squash

Yield: 5 cups / 1.25 kg

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Squash

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 5 cups

Calories 227kcal

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

• 1 litre jar home-canned squash (1 US quart / 32 oz in size)
• ½ litre jar home-canned chickpeas (1 US pint / 16 oz in size)
• 4 tablespoons coconut milk powder
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 2 teaspoons onion powder (or 1 small fresh onion, chopped)
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder (or garlic granules)
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar (or sweetener of your choice)
• 1 teaspoon salt (or salt sub)
• 1 teaspoon garam masala (ground)
• 1 teaspoon fennel seeds (ground)
• ½ teaspoon turmeric (ground)
• 2 teaspoons cumin (ground)
• 1 ½ teaspoons coriander (ground)
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 teaspoon chile flakes (or 1 to 2 mild dried red chiles, crushed)
• ½ teaspoon panch phoron (Bengali spice mix, optional)
• 1 tablespoon ginger (finely grated fresh. Can use from tube)

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Drain jars of squash and chickpeas, reserving liquid.
• To the liquid add the coconut milk powder and the cornstarch. Whisk. Zap in microwave on high for one minute. Whisk. Return to microwave, zap another 3 minutes.
• Combine everything from oil down to ginger in a large saucepan, heat slowly for 3 to 5 minutes to toast spices.
• Add coconut milk mix.
• Add squash and chickpeas, heat through, stirring gently.
• Serve.

Notes

You can make this up to a day or two ahead, to serve as part of an Indian food buffet. Store in a sealed container in fridge.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 227kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 10.4g | Saturated Fat: 3.3g | Sodium: 22mg | Fiber: 6.9g | Sugar: 5.8g

Nutrition

Per 1 cup (250 g  / 8 oz):

• 227 calories, 22 mg sodium
• Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 6 points

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* PointsPlus™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.