recipe: Baked Acorn Cranberry Apple Squash

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks to forests_of_fire for pointing me at a great recipe, which I fiddled with because I’m incorrigible.

Four generous servings, one hour

• 2 small acorn squash (or one medium kabocha)

Cut in half, place face down on parchment papered baking sheet, cook 35 minutes at 350°

Meanwhile, prepare filling

• 1 cup fresh cranberries, sliced in half
• 1 large granny smith apple, peeled and diced in half-inch bits
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon cardamom powder

stir and let sit until squash are ready.

After 35 minutes, pull pan, use spatula to turn squash on their backs then slash spatula into squash twice to make more transfer surface. Spoon cranberry-apple mix into cooked halves, return for 25 minutes more in 350° oven.

Comments

This is a side dish

[jesse_the_k]

...and goes very nicely with sausages as the main.

[pauraque]

This sounds good, except I can't eat cranberries, so I'll have to fiddle with it too. :) Maybe blueberries?

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

You might want to mix the blueberries with gooseberries (if you don't have problems with them) since the cranberries are much tarter than blueberries. I'm not sure canned gooseberries come unsweetened.

[jesse_the_k]

Blueberries would be a good switch. No sugar needed, and you might want to dust the mix with a little cornstarch/arrowroot/flour because blueberries are much juicier than cranberries.

Thank you!

[redbird]

adrian_turtle made this for me Thursday night, and we both liked it.

I sounded enthusiastic enough on the phone that cattitude asked if I thought I could reproduce it; I was happy to be able to say "Easily, the recipe is on jesse_the_k's Dreamwidth.

Re: Thank you!

[jesse_the_k]

Woot!

Re: Thank you!

[jesse_the_k]

That makes me so happy :,)