This vegan green curry recipe with winter vegetables features sweet, delicious roasted butternut squash and fresh winter greens in a simple and creamy homemade coconut green curry sauce. You can make it as mild or as spicy as you want and is a beautifully colourful way to use the best of winter’s seasonal produce.

If this recipe looks familiar to you, you may have seen it, like I did, on a recent Jaime Oliver program. I’ll admit that I didn’t come up with this combination of butternut squash and winter greens in a green curry but I wish that I had, it’s absolutely delicious!

Roasted butternut squash is like candy to me and the way its sweetness combines with the spicy green chili in this recipe is to die for.

I’m a big fan of Thai curries and I’ve already got a mixed-vegetable green curry recipe and a pineapple red curry recipe up on the blog, but this vegan green curry with winter vegetables is hands-down my favorite curry recipe so far.

For regular weeknight curries I generally use store bought vegan curry pastes (always check the ingredients!) for convenience. This recipe, however, is involves a very basic homemade green curry paste made in the food processor.

Since you’re gonna need an hour to roast the butternut squash, you might as well use the time to roast a couple spices and blitz them up with some aromatics.

The obvious advantage is that you’ve got full control over how spicy your curry will be – some of those commercial curry pastes will totally burn your face off if you’re not used to spicy food!

Besides the butternut squash, this vegan green curry is bulked out with some fresh winter greens. You can use whatever you like or have on hand and it’s great if you’ve got any leftovers to use them up.

Since I live in Spain, I’m lucky enough to have a year-round garden (although not much of a green thumb) and I’ve got some wonderful purple kale and winter radishes ready for harvest now.

Radish greens are great for curries and stir-fries, no need for those leaves to go to waste! Other options for this curry would be spinach, bok choy or cabbage.