Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash

Chezcancook
Chezcancook @cook_2773044

This was one of those 'let's see if it works' recipes and it turned out beautifully

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Ingredients

4 servings
  1. Squash
  2. 2 smallAcorn squash
  3. 1 tbspbutter melted
  4. 1/4 tspground sage
  5. 1/4 tspgarlic powder
  6. 1 tspbrown sugar
  7. Stuffing
  8. 1 lbpork sausage
  9. 1 smallred onion diced
  10. 2ribs of celery diced
  11. 6mushrooms chopped
  12. 1apple peeled and grated
  13. 1 tspgarlic
  14. 3 tbspfresh parsley
  15. 1/2 tspground sage
  16. 1 cupfine breadcrumbs
  17. 1 tbspparmesan cheese
  18. 1/2 cupdried cranberries chopped
  19. 1/4 cupchopped walnuts
  20. 1/2 tspgarlic
  21. 1egg beaten with 1 tsp milk
  22. 1/2 tspsalt
  23. 1/2 tsppepper

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Cut squash in half and remove the seeds

  2. 2

    Melt 1 tbsp butter and add sage and garlic powder

  3. 3

    Paint the inside of the squash with butter mixture and bake in the oven at 350°F for 40 mins. If squash looks dry cover with tinfoil to help steam it for 15 mins

  4. 4

    Fry off pork sausage, drain fat, reserve 2-3 tbsps of fat for frying vegetables. Put cooked pork in a large bowl, set aside

  5. 5

    In frying pan add onion cook till translucent, add celery cook 2-3 mins, add mushrooms cook 2-3 mins, add apple cook 2-3 mins then add to pork in the bowl

  6. 6

    In the bowl with the pork and veg add salt and pepper to taste, sage, breadcrumbs, cranberries, walnuts, parsley, parmesan, garlic and beaten egg and mix well with your hands

  7. 7

    Divide the sausage mixture into 4 portions and fill the squash return to the oven for another 30 mins

  8. 8

    Serve with steamed veg on the side and chunk of buttery garlic bread

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Comments (2)

wyattz
wyattz @cook_4086435
These were awesome! My wife and I loved them.

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