What is the winter squash?

Winter Squash is a Catchal phrase used to indicate several types of gourds that are harvested after fully mature. Mature winter squash has hard skin that protects it and usually allows it to be stored for up to six months without poor effects. The popular varieties of winter squash include pumpkin, squash acorn, walnut, squash hubbard and turban squash. They usually have an orange or yellow shade and strong skin. Most pumpkin varieties are hard and tasteless, except for sugar pumpkins or pumpkins on cakes. These are smaller and sweeter than other varieties and can be used in pumpkin cake and other recipes. Its shape resembles the acorn. These gourd are usually dark green, but some varieties are gold. Acorn squash taste is sweet and walnut. Squashes Acorn is normally selling in food stores. Easy to recognize his light beige skin and his bulbous pear, a walnut usually has a dark orange -colored meat with a sweet and walnut taste, like sweet potatoes. SquashIt often works well like an ingredient of the soup.

Hubbard Squash is a very large squash with tapered ends and blue -shirts, dark green or orange leather. Squash Hubbard is very hard, which protects squash. Its meat is damp and less sweet than other winter squash varieties.

Squash turban is shaped as a turban with orange, green or white skin. It may have stains or stripes on the skin. Turban squash meat is usually dark orange yellow with a taste similar to hazelnuts. Thanks to its unusual shape and festive color, the Squash turban is often excavated and used as a table decoration.

Winter squash can be baked, cooked, steamed, cleaned or even a microwave. The hard outer leather of most winter squashes can be difficult to peel, so it is sometimes the easiest to cook squash with tension skin and then gain meat. Most of the winter squash varieties maintain months when storedAnd in a cool and dry place, but also usually freeze for longer storage. Squash seeds and pumpkins can be roasted, spicy and consumed as a snack. In many cases, the winter squash can replace the pumpkin into the cake, often without a significant difference in taste.