Maple Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash
Maple Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash

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While sausage mix is simmering, trim the bottom of the acorn squash just enough so they sit flat. Lightly stab the meat of the squash with a sharp knife, ensuring not to puncture the outer skin. Mix sausage and onion into prepared stuffing mix along with two tablespoons of pure maple syrup and mix well. Place a heaping amount of sausage/stuffing mix into each squach cavity until it is filled.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have maple sausage stuffed acorn squash using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Maple Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash:
  1. Take 2 each Acorn Squash
  2. Make ready 1/4 cup real maple syrup
  3. Get Filling Mix
  4. Take 16 oz Ground Pork Sausage
  5. Take 1/2 cup White Onion, chopped
  6. Take 1 medium Empire Apple, chopped
  7. Get 1/2 cup button mushrooms, chopped
  8. Take 1/3 cup Chopped mixed bell peppers
  9. Make ready Seasonings
  10. Prepare 1/2 tbsp salt
  11. Get 1/2 tsp black pepper
  12. Make ready 1/2 tsp dried basil
  13. Take 1/4 tsp dried parsley
  14. Make ready 1/4 tsp garlic powder
  15. Make ready pinch dried thyme

Acorn squash gets a sweet and savory treatment when stuffed with sausage, onion, spinach and cranberries to make this pretty autumn entree. Cooking the squash in the microwave makes this quick enough for a busy weeknight. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen Sausage-Stuffed Acorn Squash Recipe photo by Taste of Home Whether you call it sausage stuffing or dressing, imagine it baked into acorn squash with sautéed onions and celery, pecans, and fresh cranberries. And of course, a drizzle of maple syrup on top. The result is our new favorite fall meal, and it is off the hook tasty!

Instructions to make Maple Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash:
  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Preheat pan on stove top to medium heat.
  3. Slice Acorn Squash in half lengthwise. Remove any remnant of the stem/vine before attempting to cut the squash in half. Protip: You can tap on the back of the knife with a rubber mallet to get it through the squash.
  4. Scoop out seeds and strings from the center of the squash.
  5. In preheated pan, sear ground sausage until grease appears.
  6. Add peppers, onion, mushrooms and apple to sausage, and stir in.
  7. Season mix with listed seasonings, and 2 tbsp of maple syrup.
  8. Reduce heat to low-high and let simmer until sausage is mostly browned and peppers, onion and apple are tender.
  9. While sausage mix is simmering, trim the bottom of the acorn squash just enough so they sit flat. Lightly stab the meat of the squash with a sharp knife, ensuring not to puncture the outer skin.
  10. Arrange in a 9x13 baking dish and fill the bottom of the dish with water to 1/2 inch deep.
  11. Divide remaing syrup, except for 4 tbsp, into the hollow of the squash halves. Coat the rims of the squash with syrup.
  12. Fill the halves with sausage mix, gently packing it in, until mounded over the rims of the squash.
  13. Drizzle remaing syrup over sausage mix and squash.
  14. Bake in oven for 45-50 minutes, until sausage mix is fully browned and squash is fork tender.
  15. Enjoy!

And of course, a drizzle of maple syrup on top. The result is our new favorite fall meal, and it is off the hook tasty! Once some of the fat is rendered from the sausage, add the onions, paprika, pumpkin pie spice, sage, celery, bell peppers and a pinch of salt. Cook until the sausage is done and the vegetables are. Stuffed Acorn Squash is filled with all the best fall flavors!

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