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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have sausage stuffed acorn squash using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash:
- Take Squash
- Take 2 small Acorn squash
- Take 1 tbsp butter melted
- Take 1/4 tsp ground sage
- Get 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- Prepare 1 tsp brown sugar
- Make ready Stuffing
- Prepare 1 lb pork sausage
- Take 1 small red onion diced
- Prepare 2 ribs of celery diced
- Take 6 mushrooms chopped
- Prepare 1 apple peeled and grated
- Prepare 1 tsp garlic
- Prepare 3 tbsp fresh parsley
- Take 1/2 tsp ground sage
- Get 1 cup fine breadcrumbs
- Get 1 tbsp parmesan cheese
- Make ready 1/2 cup dried cranberries chopped
- Prepare 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garlic
- Get 1 egg beaten with 1 tsp milk
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp pepper
Place squash cut side down in a microwave safe dish. Cook sausage and onion in a large skillet until sausage is no longer pink. Sausage stuffed acorn squash is the ultimate comforting fall or winter meal. Sage seasoned pork is combined with a cornbread stuffing mix, dried cranberries and herbs.
Instructions to make Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash:
- Cut squash in half and remove the seeds
- Melt 1 tbsp butter and add sage and garlic powder
- 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
- Fry off pork sausage, drain fat, reserve 2-3 tbsps of fat for frying vegetables. Put cooked pork in a large bowl, set aside
- 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
- 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
- Divide the sausage mixture into 4 portions and fill the squash return to the oven for another 30 mins
- Serve with steamed veg on the side and chunk of buttery garlic bread
Sausage stuffed acorn squash is the ultimate comforting fall or winter meal. Sage seasoned pork is combined with a cornbread stuffing mix, dried cranberries and herbs. The tender baked squash serves as a bowl for the savory sausage cornbread stuffing and contrasts well with the sweetness of dried cranberries. While squash is roasting - in a large fry pan over medium heat - heat oil and add Onion, Celery, Salt, Pepper, and Rosemary. Cook until onions begin to soften.
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