Name: Cheesy Bacon Butternut Squash
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 2 lb. butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1" pieces; 2 tbsp. olive oil; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 2 tbsp. chopped thyme; kosher salt; Freshly ground black pepper; 1/2 lb. bacon, chopped; 1 1/2 c. shredded mozzarella; 1/2 c. freshly grated Parmesan; Chopped fresh parsley, for garnish

Cheesy Bacon Butternut Squash from Delish.com is a fall staple. 

Cheesy Bacon Butternut Squash

butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1" pieces

olive oil

garlic,

thyme

kosher salt

black pepper

lb. bacon, chopped

c. mozzarella

c. Parmesan

parsley,

Just for the people rating this poorly based on it's relation to Keto... This is technically a Keto dish. Low carb, moderate protein and high fat is the only thing that qualifies a Keto dish and this is low enough in carbs. My Macros have me eating 30 grams of carbs in a day so 11grams per serving is not a big dent in my carb intake when I only eat two meals a day (intermittent fasting as well). This may just not fit into some people's Keto macros. I suggest using a food tracking app to help you find the nutritional information before rating someone's hard work poorly for no reason.

I quote my husband and my father... "I usually don't like squash, but this was pretty good!"  Coming from the two of them, this is a real compliment.  (Btw, I added Italian panko bread crumbs on top, too.)

The premise of this recipe is fantastic.  However, the cooking time is just wrong. Cooking time for the bacon and squash needs to be 35-40 minutes. Everything else is fantastic, but if you go with the original cooking time you get crunchy squash and raw bacon.

It is good but the squash takes more like 45 minutes to cook until tender

Made this to the exact directions. Butternut squash is hard to handle. The prep time is much longer than 6 minutes. The squash was cooked perfectly and had great texture. But I wish it had more flavor. I also used pre-cooked bacon so maybe that was part of the problem. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This was so delicious. My husband said he wanted ever night and I agreed!

I’m doing keto too, and found this on a list of keto recipes. Just like to point out, nowhere on the recipe does it say keto and it’s not the origin poster’s fault someone else included it in a list. 2. It isn’t crazy carbs if you eat a serving. I could eat this as 1 serving for lunch and be full and happy, and still have half my carbs left for the day, so you really just have to see how recipes work for you. 3.people knocking off stars for not having nutrition listed are lazy. Get an app or look up values, add, then divide by servings. Keto is YOUR journey, and you can’t expect others to do the work for you. This dish is DEELISH by the way :-P

Almost 22 total carbs for a cup of raw cubed butternut squash. Thats 15 net carbs per cup of raw cubed butternut squash just from the squash alone.  Then add the carbs from seasonings and cheese.  And then shrink your serving size down from a cup because of the shrinkage from cooking.  Im sure its yummy  but not so sure its Keto friendly since most people eat 20 NET carbs a day.   Thats almost all your carbs for ONE side dish.   5 stars because I havent tried it and it wouldnt be fair to give a low score when its probably delicious.   However this probably doesnt belong in a keto group of recipes.

I added onions and everyone loved it. All said this dish is very filling and hits the spot

Excellent bad ratings for nutritional values r nonsense this dish is bomb

It's a shame that "BlueProcessor" put only 1 star just because the nutritional values are not posted. It would be a nice addition but the rating is supposed to reflect the taste of a recipe.

I've made this several times now. It's great... I did cut back on the thyme a little because that seems like a lot and it worked great. 

Lot's of people complaining about it not fitting their Keto diet plan, but I'm also doing Keto and this works perfect as a small portion side dish for dinner. You just have to watch how many other carbs you are eating in the day. The portion I eat with usually either chicken thighs or sausages is about 8-9g net carbs. That's about half my daily intake but my other meals are very low carb so it's fine to add some variety to my meal plan. You can't just eat Cauliflower all the time lol

Also, the recipe does not claim to be Keto even though Delish has placed it in some Keto recipe lists.

Based on the listed ingredients and their suggested amounts, this dish wouldn't really fall into my Keto meal plan, as it comes in at over 11g of net carbs per serving, and that's assuming it really does make six servings. I'm sure it tastes wonderful, but I was here looking for both taste and Keto. Here's the breakdown - in case someone wants to check my math:

Butternut Squash (4 cups): 55.8 carbs
Garlic (2 cloves): 2 carbs
Thyme (2 tbsp): 0.6 carbs
Shredded Mozzarella (1 1/2 cups): 5.25 carbs
Parmesan (1/2 cup): 2.0 carbs
Parsley (1/2 cup): 0.7 carbs

Total Carbs = 66.35 carbs
Per Serving = 11.05 net carbs

Rating is based on the less than ideal presentation as a Keto-friendly recipe.

Wayyy too much thyme. Overpowered the entire dish and made me nauseated. Probably would've been good with way less thyme.

Why are you resistant to publishing the nutritional values? I have to look up each ingredient and figure it for myself, and that is such a pain in the a** that I just don't use most of your recipes.
Sad.

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This bacon butternut squash side dish will be a huge hit on your Thanksgiving table this year.

Cheesy Bacon Butternut Squash

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Total: 45 minutes

Servings: 6

Cost: $4.89 /serving

Author : Lauren Miyashiro

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