Roasted vegetables in parchment paper pockets is an elegant, yet simple cooking method that intensifies the inherent tastiness of the vegetables inside.
Imagine, warm, dry oven heat surrounds your vegetables, releasing moisture and steam that bastes the veggies. Their juices surround the chopped morsels and mingle with olive oil and butter to caramelize golden brown. How would that taste?
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With your butternut squash and leeks snugly contained inside a sealed parchment pocket, none of the their flavorful juices are lost due to evaporation. No other method can accomplish this in the same way.
The addition of butter produces a delightful bit of caramelization on the bottom of the bake, which adds volumes to the flavor and aroma of this dish….