Easiest Way to Prepare Award-winning Maple Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, maple sausage stuffed acorn squash. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Skillet Recipes the Whole Family will Love. Scoop out seeds and strings from the center of the squash. In preheated pan, sear ground sausage until grease appears. Add peppers, onion, mushrooms and apple to sausage, and stir in.

Maple Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Maple Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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. Make ready 2 each Acorn Squash
2. Get 1/4 cup real maple syrup
3. Prepare Filling Mix
4. Get 16 oz Ground Pork Sausage
5. Take 1/2 cup White Onion, chopped
6. Prepare 1 medium Empire Apple, chopped
7. Get 1/2 cup button mushrooms, chopped
8. Get 1/3 cup Chopped mixed bell peppers
9. Make ready Seasonings
10. Make ready 1/2 tbsp salt
11. Make ready 1/2 tsp black pepper
12. Take 1/2 tsp dried basil
13. Prepare 1/4 tsp dried parsley
14. Take 1/4 tsp garlic powder
15. Prepare pinch dried thyme

Cut each squash in half crosswise; scoop out seeds. Cut a thin slice off the bottom of each half so it can stand upright. Sausage-Stuffed Acorn Squash 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 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.

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!

Sausage-Stuffed Acorn Squash 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 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! From the sweet and savory maple sausage, to the chew from the wild rice, to the fresh bite from the apples, to the tartness from the cranberries, to the fresh burst of herbs, the stuffing is not lacking anything in flavor or texture.

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