Vegetables

Butternut squash

With care — Allowed by some hospitals and not others, or allowed only prepared a particular way.

A bowl of smooth, deep orange butternut and carrot soup with a white cream swirl on top. — A photograph from Butternut and carrot soup with a cream swirl, one of the recipes that uses it.

How to prepare it

Peel it fully and scoop out all the seeds and fibrous centre. Cook it until soft and blend it.

Recipes using it

Butternut and carrot soup with a cream swirl

Sources

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — Dietary Fibre
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust — Dietary advice on how to reduce the fibre in your diet