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Home / Cuisine / Other Cuisines / Spiced Rice and Squash

Spiced Rice and Squash

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · Published: 🖨 October 20, 2011 · Updated: 💻November 6, 2019 · 🗨 22 Comments

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Fragrant Spiced Rice and Squash flavored with cumin, garam masala, and coconut milk. Can be eaten as a stand-alone dish or a side dish.

Fragrant Spiced Rice and Squash flavored with cumin, garam masala, and coconut milk. Can be eaten as a stand-alone dish or a side dish. | RotiNRice.com #buttercupsquash #squashrecipes #ricerecipes

Here in North America, we are blessed with many varieties of squashes. Pumpkin, butternut, and acorn squashes are mainstays. Of these, my favorite is the butternut squash and remain to this day, although there are new contenders vying for that spot now. I was reluctant to try what appeared to me as odd and weird colored squashes in the bins. That changed when I started blogging and now I sample at least one or two new varieties each year.

Squashes

Fragrant Spiced Rice and Squash flavored with cumin, garam masala, and coconut milk. Can be eaten as a stand-alone dish or a side dish.| RotiNRice.com Last year I discovered the carnival and spaghetti squashes. This time round, I was drawn to the sweet potato squash. I really enjoyed this squash as it has a very moist and sweet flesh with a fine texture. It is by far, the sweetest squash I have ever tasted. My other choice was the buttercup squash. This is a squat, green squash resembling an upside-down acorn. It has a dark green rind with silver-grey striations. The flesh is a deep yellow-orange color and is sweet, dense, and creamy.

Spiced Rice and Squash

Instead of roasting this squash, I decided to use it to make this Spiced Rice and Squash dish, normally cooked with pumpkin and dried shrimps in Malaysia. To spice it up a little, I added some cumin seeds, garam masala, and coconut milk. I served this with fried eggplants and roasted pork but it can definitely stand on its own. Do give it a try.

Spiced Rice and Squash served with lettuce and slices of tomatoes.

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Fragrant Spiced Rice and Squash flavored with cumin, garam masala, and coconut milk. Can be eaten as a stand-alone dish or a side dish. | RotiNRice.com #buttercupsquash #squashrecipes #ricerecipes

Spiced Rice and Squash

Fragrant Spiced Rice and Squash flavored with cumin, garam masala, and coconut milk. Can be eaten as a stand-alone dish or a side dish.
Author : Linda Ooi
Course : Side Dish
Cuisine : Fusion
Keyword : spiced rice
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Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 25 mins
Total Time 40 mins
Servings : 4
Calories : 478kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1½ cups rice (rinsed and drained) (300g)
  • 2 cups squash - choice of buttercup, butternut, or pumpkin (cubed) (300g)
  • ¼ cup dried shrimp (soaked for 10 minutes, rinsed and drained) (40g)
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • ½ tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • ½ cup coconut milk (120ml)
  • 1½ cups water (360ml)
  • 1 tsp salt

Instructions
 

  • Heat oil in a medium sized pot. Fry dried shrimp, garlic, and cumin seeds until fragrant, about 3 minutes. Stir in garam masala.
  • Add squash, and rice.
  • Pour in coconut milk and water. Give it a good stir to get everything well mixed. When liquid comes to a boil, add salt. Lower heat to medium, place on the lid, and allow it to simmer for about 15 minutes or until all liquid is absorbed.
  • Reduce heat to the lowest possible setting and continue to cook for another 5 minutes. Turn off heat and allow rice and squash to sit for 10 minutes before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 478kcal
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Inviting plate of spiced rice with slices of tomatoes, lettuce, and green onions.

More Squash Recipes

Here are the other squash recipes on this blog. Just click on the picture to get to the post.

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Spiced Rice and Squash collage

Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day! 😎


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  1. torviewtoronto says

    October 20, 2011 at 11:27 am

    delicious combination looks wonderful and flavourful

    Reply
  2. Lyndsey says

    October 20, 2011 at 11:37 am

    Perfect! I am making this for dinner tonight. Thanks! That’s what is so great about blogging, my foodie friends come to my aid many times. One of my daily dilemmas…deciding what to have for dinner each night! 🙂

    Reply
  3. Ann@Anncoo Journal says

    October 20, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    There are a lot of squash here I think due to the Halloween. Love to cook this rice dish, looks so simple and delicious 🙂

    Reply
    • Biren says

      October 20, 2011 at 9:26 pm

      I am glad to hear that you can find many varieties of squashes in Singapore. I hope you get to try each of them as they can be quite different. 🙂

      Reply
  4. PolaM says

    October 20, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    I’m on my squash journey to! I have just discovered carnival, whihc is delciously sweet, butternut is a favorite, kaboocha is croumbly and great as a side and golden nugget is forgettable. Buttercup and sweet potates are in the pantry waiting to be examined!

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    • Biren says

      October 24, 2011 at 7:58 am

      It’s so fun to try out the different squashes! I enjoy discovering new flavors and ways of cooking them.

      Reply
  5. Angie's Recipes says

    October 20, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    Love everything pumpkin! Rice looks so appetizing and tasty.

    Reply
  6. Belinda @zomppa says

    October 20, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    What a beautiful dish! Love squash, the flavor, the color.

    Reply
  7. Blackswan says

    October 20, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    Wow, your Pumpkin Rice looks like what I did earlier. But it’s interesting for u to add coconut in the rice. I’m sure it tastes yummy 🙂

    Biren, I’d submitted my Creepy Halloween Pumpkin Treats for a Recipe Challenge. I’d appreciate a minute of your time to hop over to VOTE for my entry. Voting closes 24 Oct 2011. I thank you for your votes & appreciate your kind gesture!

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  8. Nasi Lemak Lover says

    October 21, 2011 at 2:34 am

    you can add some green bean or long bean, also very good wor!

    Reply
    • Biren says

      October 21, 2011 at 12:24 pm

      Will try that the next time. Hopefully I can get some nice long beans at the Asian market.

      Reply
  9. Mari @ Mari's Cakes says

    October 21, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    Great rice recipe. I am sure those spices mix with the squash give the rice an excellent taste. It is very similiar to a rice we cook here in the island with different spices.

    Have a great weekend 🙂

    Reply
  10. Reese@SeasonwithSpice says

    October 21, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    I love all the squashes there. We can only get the evergreen ones here. I’m actually thinking to make something similar for lunch later:) Thanks for sharing Biren!

    Reply
  11. Gina says

    October 23, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    Hi Biren,
    This does sound wonderful and perfect for this time of year when squash are abundant our our local farm stand. I bet even more daughter would try this. Hope you are having a nice weekend.
    -Gina-

    Reply
  12. Christine says

    October 23, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    Sounds so good.

    Reply
  13. pigpigscorner says

    October 23, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    This reminds me of yam rice! Love the addition of spices.

    Reply
    • Biren says

      October 24, 2011 at 7:59 am

      Yes, it is similar to yam rice except for the spices.

      Reply
  14. tigerfish says

    October 23, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    I recently added some spiced sweet potato cubes in my rice too and enjoy the hint of sweetness that sweet potatoes/ pumpkin adds to the savory rice.

    Reply
    • Biren says

      October 24, 2011 at 8:00 am

      I have used sweet potatoes in porridge but not in rice. I will have to try that one day.

      Reply
  15. Quay Po Cooks says

    October 24, 2011 at 5:02 am

    Biren, I will never thought of making pumpkin spiced rice. This sounds interesting and flavorful!

    Reply
  16. elisabeth@foodandthrift says

    October 25, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    Such a perfect, and comforting broth with the addition of beef, and seafood. I sure love the yummy dumplings as well, to be added in the hot pot. I think this would be nice for a casual gatherings with family, and/or friends. A nice and delicious meal for this time of the year!
    Biren, your photos are amazing…so well organized!

    P.S. This is my first comment on the previous post. CAPTCHA would not let me pass comment thru…and it kept telling me later, that “you already said that, so I copied and pasted the comment from before.

    Biren, I love your rice and squash dish, so healthy and delicious!

    Reply
  17. Nami | Just One Cookbook says

    October 27, 2011 at 1:47 am

    Oh this is something I’ve never made – squash with rice! YUM!!! I’m afraid I might end up way too much. With coconut milk and dried shrimp, this rice must be nice rich taste….

    Reply

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