If you thought one can only eat butternut cooked, think again. This raw, grated butternut salad tastes almost like carrot salad and the beauty of it is that butternut keeps much longer than carrots.

You need: (for 6 portions)

• 1 small butternut, peeled, seeded and grated
• ½ cup fresh orange juice (or use 100 ml fruit juice)
• 2 teaspoons honey
• ¼ cup granadilla pulp (fresh or tinned)
• ½ cup seedless raisins
• ½ cup nuts, chopped (I prefer pecan nuts)
   

Get cracking:

• Mix the grated butternut, granadilla pulp, raisins and nuts in a dish and pour the honey, mixed with the orange juice, over it.