Acorn Squash Recipes

                                     Great Acorn Annihilate Recipes 

I adulation acorn squash, apparently because they are healthy, adorable and simple to prepare. (A acceptable aggregate if there anytime was one.)
If you accept wondered how to baker acorn squash, here's all you charge to do:
Cut them in bisected about the middle.
Scoop out the seeds and fibrous fibers.
Sprinkle with alkali and pepper.
Put a bit of adulate in anniversary atrium or besom them with olive oil.
Put them in a baking basin cut ancillary up or down.
Bake at 350 - 400 degrees until tender, 35 to 50 minutes, depending on admeasurement of annihilate and oven temperature.
That's all there is to it; the simplest acorn annihilate compound ever. If you wish something adherent there are lots of means to sweeten and aroma up broiled acorn squash. Here are a brace of favorites:
Glazed Broiled Acorn Squash: Just afore serving, baptize with amber amoroso or dribble with maple abstract and broil for a few account until the amoroso melts.
Spiced Broiled Acorn Squash: For 2 squash, amalgamate 1 tablespoon added abstinent olive oil, 1/4 teaspoon sea salt, 1/4 teaspoon allspice, 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes and 1/4 teaspoon arena cinnamon. Besom the abdomen of the annihilate with admixture and broil cut ancillary down until tender, 30 to 45 minutes.
Stuffing annihilate is a abundant way to about-face this adorable vegetable into a meal. Here are some admired recipes for blimp squash:
Stuffed Annihilate Recipes
Each compound makes abundant capacity for 2-3 ample broiled acorn squash.
Apple Blimp Acorn Squash
Ingredients:
2-3 acerb apples, diced
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup butter, melted
Preparation
To accomplish the stuffing, amalgamate and again ample cavities of partially broiled squash. Cover and broil at 375 for 30 minutes.
Apple Sausage Blimp Acorn Squash
Ingredients
1/2 batter aggregate sausage
1 onion, bald and diced
1 apple, diced
2 cups broiled aliment cubes
3/4 cup chopped nuts
3/4 cup aureate raisins
1 tablespoon apparent yogurt
1/4 teaspoon broiled thyme
1/4 teaspoon broiled basil
1/4 teaspoon broiled oregano
Preparation
To accomplish the capacity put sausage in a ample bucket set over average calefaction and baker until browned. Add onion and angel and cook, active often, until tender. Remove bucket from heat. Add actual ingredients. Stuff into adapted annihilate and broil at 375 for 15 minutes.
Fruit and Rice Blimp Acorn Squash
You can use any affectionate of rice you like for this recipe. I like to use a agrarian rice blend.
Ingredients
2 cups adapted rice of your choice
2 tablespoons added abstinent olive oil
1 cup diced chicken onion
1 cup diced celery
2 tablespoons cautiously chopped shallots
2 acerb apples, peeled, cored and cut into baby cubes
1/4 teaspoon broiled thyme
1/4 teaspoon broiled sage
1/2 cup broiled cranberries or raisins
Preparation
To accomplish the stuffing, put 2 tablespoons oil in a bucket over average heat. Add the onion with a compression of alkali and cook, until golden, about 5 minutes. Add the celery, shallot and apples and baker for addition 3 minutes. Add the thyme, academician and cranberries and baker for 2 account more. Add 2 tablespoons baptize to the pan and activity well.
In a ample bowl, amalgamate the vegetable-apple admixture with the rice and division to aftertaste with salt. Scoop into adapted annihilate and enjoy.
Southwest Blimp Acorn Squash
Ingredients
1/2 batter aggregate turkey sausage
1 baby onion, chopped
1/2 average red alarm pepper, chopped
1 abysm garlic, minced
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 teaspoon arena cumin
2 cups chopped blooming tomatoes
1 (15-ounce) can atramentous beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 teaspoon salt
Several dashes hot red pepper sauce, to taste
1 cup disconnected Swiss cheese
Preparation
To accomplish the stuffing, agilely covering a ample bucket with affable spray; calefaction over average heat. Add sausage and cook, active and breaking up with a board spoon, until agilely browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Add onion and alarm pepper; cook, active often, until softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Activity in garlic, chili crumb and cumin; baker for 30 seconds. Activity in tomatoes, beans, alkali and hot sauce, abrading up any browned bits. Cover, abate heat, and simmer until the tomatoes are torn down, 10 to 12 minutes.
When the annihilate are tender, abate oven temperature to 325. Ample the annihilate behindhand with the turkey capacity mixture. Baptize with cheese. Place on the baking area and broil until the bushing is acrimonious through and the cheese is melted, 8 to 10 minutes.