Braised Winter Squash with Fermented Black Beans Recipe | Saveur

Ingredients

• One 1-lb. winter squash
• 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
• 4–5 dried Tianjin or Sichuan chiles, snipped into ½-inch pieces and seeds shaken out
• 1 Tbsp. fermented black beans, coarsely chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 1 cup unsalted vegetable stock of any kind, or water
• 1 tsp. sugar, plus more as needed
• ½ tsp. kosher salt, plus more as needed
• ½ tsp. toasted sesame oil
• Pinch freshly ground white pepper
• 1 scallion, green part only, thinly sliced