Buttercup Flan:

So fast, easy and healthy. Dairy free and gluten free

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups of cooked Buttercup Squash (To bake it, cut the squash in half, take out the seeds and bake cut side face-down for about 1 hour, until soft at 350.)
• 3 eggs
• 1/3 cup maple syrup or honey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp ginger (or less if you don’t love it)
• sprinkle of nutmeg
• dash of sea salt.

Blend it all up in food processor.

Pour into a greased pie plate

Bake at 450 for 10 minutes, and then 350 for 30 minutes or until set and slightly brown.

Food that you can love, that loves you back!

Update for Nov. 2010: I have heard from dozens of folks who have made this pie with ease and loved it!

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Nina Manolson, MA, CHC, LMT is the Smokin’ Hot Mom Mentor and Family Wellness Expert. She’s the founder of SmokinHotMom.com and HealthyYummyKids.com. She helps busy moms look and feel their best, and helps them feed their kids well in a world that doesn’t. To get your F.R.E.E. Audio CD by mail and receive her healthy recipes and wellness tips click here.

13 Responses

1. anniespickns says:

   November 18, 2009 at 12:09 am

   The recipe says Butternut squash but in the video you say to use Buttercup and not Butternut. So Buttercup is correct?

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2. ninamanolson says:

   November 18, 2009 at 9:16 am

   Thank you for catching that. It is ButterCUP!

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4. Rudy Peirce says:

   November 20, 2009 at 1:27 pm

   Great video. I like the idea of keeping ginger in the freezer. I like to keep fresh ginger on hand, but sometimes I don’t make use of it for a long time and it shrivels up or gets moldy. And it ain’t cheap (though I often get pretty small pieces). The freezer tip will save me Money!

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   • ninamanolson says:

     November 20, 2009 at 1:38 pm

     Hi Rudy,

     Great! The best thing to grate the frozen ginger with is a microplane. They are awesome kitchen tools.

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5. Joanie says:

   November 20, 2009 at 11:30 pm

   Thanks Nina, looks yummy! I’m going to make it for Thanksgiving.
   XXX

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   • ninamanolson says:

     November 21, 2009 at 7:21 pm

     I love this flan served with Nomi Shannon’s (The Raw Gourmet) Cranberry Sauce on top!

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6. Alejandra says:

   December 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm

   Hey Nina
   i made your flan for thanksgiving and it was a hit with my guests.
   i made a pie with it using a nut crust with half of it.
   Thanks!!

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   • ninamanolson says:

     December 1, 2009 at 10:24 pm

     I am so glad to hear the flan was a hit. Someone just e-mailed my yesterday and told me they made it too. She called it flantastic!
     Mmm, the nut crust sounds great!

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7. Julie HANNON says:

   February 3, 2010 at 9:00 am

   well-I made it with these sweet little pumpkins this morning- they look like pumpkin shaped delicata squash! yummy indeed. I did a fun thing too- I put the squash in the oven the night before and set the oven to go on in the morning before wake-up so I could whip up the pie in the am and have warm pie in the morning– (and an oven warmed kitchen to come into smelling of baking pumpkin)–

   thanks for this!

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10. Kayla says:

    November 25, 2011 at 4:03 am

    I’m so glad you shared this easy recipe! Thanks! I made it with half butternut squash and half sweet potato and served it for Thanksgiving. It was quite a hit – this one is a keeper!

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