Stuffed Acorn Squash

My favorite time of the year is fall. Pretty leaves, cool, crisp air and yummy food! One of my favorite fall vegetables is squash, in any form! Butternut squash, spaghetti squash, yellow squash, acorn squash; they’re all so delicious! What’s better than having squash as a side dish? Stuffing the squash and turning it into a meal!

Sausage, apples, carmelized onion stuffed in an acorn squash, what could be better than that on a cool, fall evening?

Stuffed Acorn Squash

Ingredients

• 2 medium-sized acorn squash
• 1 lb Jimmy Dean All Natural Pork Sausage (or your favorite sausage)
• 2 medium-sized red apples
• 1 medium-sized sweet onion
• 1 TBSP olive oil
• 1 TBSP cinnamon

Directions

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Wash, halve & scoop out the seeds from the squash.
• Drizzle each halve of squash with olive oil and sprinkle with cinnamon.  Bake for 1 hour or until soft, rotating halfway through cook time.
• While squash is baking, peel and slice onion and carmelize in a skillet in olive oil.
• Wash & cube apples.  Once onions start to carmelize, cook apples with onion until apples soften.
• Brown sausage in skillet.  Combine sausage, apples and onion together.  Cook for 5 more minutes to mix flavors.
• Stuff each squash with sausage mixture.  Broil for 5-10 minutes or until tops are browned.
• Let cool and serve warm!

Enjoy!