Garlic Herb Chicken Sausage and Quinoa Stuffed Acorn Squash

Obsessing over this fall repast. The garlicky herby parmesan quinoa sausage mixture is to pass for. And stuffed in acorn squelch?! Can’t go any better. Plus I brushed the squash with maple syrup earlier roasting. YUM. These are super uncomplicated to brand only expect then pretty together with fancy! They would live great to entertain with.

Brushing the squash with maple as well as cayenne and a footling cinnamon is such a dainty touch to these. SO festive.



I had to finish myself from eating allll of the filling earlier stuffing the squelch. It’sec that skillful. If y'all didn’t want to deal with the whole crush roasting business organisation yous could definitely but make this filling as a side dish.

Serves 2-4

ii acorn crush, cutting in one-half, seeds removed

i i/2 T. olive oil

1 T. pure maple syrup

1/4 tsp. cinnamon

1/8 tsp. cayenne

ane/4 tsp. table salt

ane/4 tsp. pepper

iii/four c. quinoa

1 i/4 c. water

one/ii of a medium xanthous onion, chopped

one clove garlic, finely chopped

1 lb. chicken sausage or sausage of your choice (I used a roasted garlic together with herb sausage)

1/ii tsp. oregano

one/iv tsp. ruddy pepper flakes

3/four c. freshly grated parmesan cheese

ane/iv c. fresh apartment foliage parsley, chopped

Preheat oven to 400℉. Combine olive oil, maple syrup, cinnamon, cayenne, as well as salt in addition to pepper in a pocket-sized bowl. Stir to combine. Brush squelch cavities amongst mixture liberally. Place on baking sheet, flesh side upwardly, too roast for 35 minutes, or until slightly aureate in addition to tender.

While mash is roasting, make the quinoa. Bring one one/iv c. H2O to a boil, in addition to add quinoa. Cover as well as trim back to low. Cook for 15-eighteen minutes or until all liquid is absorbed. Try not to peek until almost xv minutes has gone past. Once finished, take away from rut and set up aside.

Heat a big skillet over medium estrus. Add a drizzle of olive petroleum (nigh ii T.) Add onion too garlic in addition to sauté for five minutes until lightly aureate. Season with table salt too pepper. Add sausage, oregano, in addition to reddish pepper flakes to pan, breaking upward the sausage into piffling pieces with your spatula, and sauté for an additional five-half dozen minutes until sausage is cooked through.

Add quinoa, chopped parsley, in addition to i/2 c. of the grated parm to pan. Stir together. By this fourth dimension the squash should live finished. Remove from oven too material squelch alongside filling. You may accept a fiddling leftover. Top alongside remaining grated parm and bake for another vi-vii minutes until cheese is prissy and melty too golden. Garnish amongst more chopped parsley.

Serve!



How pretty together with fallish?! LOVE these.