Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, sausage stuffed acorn squash. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have sausage stuffed acorn squash using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash:
- Take Squash
- Get 2 small Acorn squash
- Take 1 tbsp butter melted
- Prepare 1/4 tsp ground sage
- Get 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- Make ready 1 tsp brown sugar
- Get Stuffing
- Make ready 1 lb pork sausage
- Take 1 small red onion diced
- Make ready 2 ribs of celery diced
- Take 6 mushrooms chopped
- Take 1 apple peeled and grated
- Get 1 tsp garlic
- Take 3 tbsp fresh parsley
- Take 1/2 tsp ground sage
- Prepare 1 cup fine breadcrumbs
- Prepare 1 tbsp parmesan cheese
- Make ready 1/2 cup dried cranberries chopped
- Get 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- Get 1/2 tsp garlic
- Make ready 1 egg beaten with 1 tsp milk
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp pepper
Steps 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
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