Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash

Submitted by ratherbebaking

"Acorn squash stuffed with sausage, spinach, dried cranberries and stuffing. Ready in less than 30 minutes. I modified this recipe from Simply Delicious."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 4 halves
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 2 medium acorn squash
• 1 lb spicy bulk sausage
• 1⁄2 cup onion, chopped
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 cup fresh Baby Spinach, finely chopped
• 1 1⁄2 cups herb seasoned stuffing mix (crushed)
• 1⁄2 cup dried cranberries

directions

1. Cut squash in half, remove seeds.
2. Place squash cut side down in a microwave safe dish.
3. Cover and microwave on high for 10-12 minutes or until tender.
4. Cook sausage and onion in a large skillet until sausage is no longer pink.
5. Drain if needed.
6. In a large bowl, beat egg and milk, stir in spinach, stuffing, cranberries and sausage mixture.
7. Stuff squash with sausage mixture.
8. Cover and microwave 2-3 minutes or until heated through.

Reviews

[horseplay]

This was good. I was a little ambivalent (sorry!) but the rest of the family thought it was just excellent, so I'm the minority anyway! I was a bit suspicious of the egg - I was worried it would turn out like an omelet in a squash, but you didn't really notice the egg in the end, it just made the stuffing fluffier. Thanks!

 

[Pixies Kitchen]

This turned out really well. I was a little nervous with just microwave cooking but you'd never guess it. I left out the onion and the spinach and used a stove top stuffing mix for pork since I thought that would go well with the sage sausage. My 3 and 5 year old devoured it and my husband went back for seconds! Thanks for posting such an easy recipe.

 

[FLKeysJen]

Excellent! We used spicy chicken sausage. The instructions should say to dig out the inside (stringy) part of the squash as well as the seeds - we had extra stuffing and if we had dug out that part it would have fit better. Very festive and impressive presentatation!

 

[Vicks71]

This was quite good...impressive presentation while using ingredients I typically have on hand. To make it healthier, I used a spicy lean turkey sausage and used egg white. I also used orange flavored dried cranberries (what I had on hand) and added golden raisins...nice touch.