Butternut Squash Hash for the table

Butternut Squash Hash is a healthy, dairy-free butternut squash recipe that's perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!

This butternut squash recipe first came about shortly after learning We can't have dairy. No milk, yogurt, cheese — not even goat cheese. Also on the Do Not Eat list: bananas, pineapples, and pecans.

So, how does a food blogger who is used to eating EVERYTHING, cut back on all of these things?

By seeing this new diet as a challenge, and learning to cook tasty dairy-free meals!

Approved Food List

Most of the favorite food & drinks are still on the Good List. We can still enjoy pasta, seafood, bacon, wine, coffee, and chocolate, thank goodness.

If those beloved items were on the Do Not Eat list, We would be having a life crisis of major proportions!

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We can also still have butter, which confuses people because butter is dairy. Since butter is made mostly from milk fats vs milk protein, the body doesn't react to it the same way it does to most milks and cheeses.

So YAY BUTTER! Long live butter! (Although, We do love this vegan dairy-free butter alternative).

Getting Creative in the Kitchen

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The intolerance testing results blow is also softened by this a sick and twisted addiction that We have to change and being challenged. So on the flip side, this has created a whole new exciting cooking arena for this adrenaline junkie.

We've loved trying out new dairy free recipes. And We've enjoyed expanding the cooking and baking to Paleo and Vegan recipes. The fact that We am forced to expand the palate and get out of the cooking comfort zone is a quite good thing!

So enter: more butternut squash recipes.

Healthy Butternut Squash Recipes

We've never cooked much with butternut squash until now.

In effort to balance out the new diet, We decided to beef up the veggie options. We tend to always cook with the same veggies. Do you fall into that rut? For me, it's spinach, kale, bell peppers, potatoes, corn, green beans, broccoli, carrots, and brussel sprouts. So We needed something new.

Butternut Squash is a versatile vegetable that can be made into so many different dishes. We've learned to love butternut squash pastas, hand pies, stir fry dishes. And, simple roasted butternut squash has become one of the favorite snacks!

Butternut Squash Hash Ingredients

butternut squash hash cooking with spinach

With versatile ingredients, this butternut squash hash makes a fantastic breakfast, brunch, or fast lunch recipe.

butternut squash
baking potato
garlic
olive oil
cumin
paprika
chopped sage
optional: poached egg

How to Make Butternut Squash Hash

Butternut Squash Hash topped with sage and egg, close up

In a large sauté pan or skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat.
Add one minced garlic clove.
Chop up quite small cubes of butternut squash and baking potatoes. Toss into the pan.
Season with salt, pepper, paprika, and cumin.
Stir, mix, sing a little song, do a little dance. Then toss in some color, which We did in the form of a large handful of spinach.
Toss in one tablespoon of roughly chopped fresh sage. Sage is what makes this dish sing. It is such a fragrant herb that truly brings out the sweetness of the butternut squash.
Then toss the ingredients around a few times and cook until the edges of the potatoes and butternut squash are lightly browned.

We topped this with an egg cooked over simple. Luckily, We don't need to cut out eggs, but We'm told that many people have an egg intolerance, so if you can't have eggs or don't like eggs, simply leave this out.

We'm excited to embark on this new food journey. We look forward to testing out and sharing more dairy-free recipes here with you!