Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, my dads sweet & buttery acorn squash. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have my dads sweet & buttery acorn squash using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make My Dads Sweet & Buttery Acorn Squash:
- Get 1 large acorn squash
- Get 1/4 cup brown sugar (divided)
- Get 4 tbsp butter or margarine (divided)
- Get 10 dash nutmeg
- Take 10 dash cinnamon
Instructions to make My Dads Sweet & Buttery Acorn Squash:
- preheat oven to 375°F.
- place squash on cutting board stem side up. remove stem.
- cut acorn squash in half so u have two sides.. (not a top and bottom)
- scoop out seeds and save for later use ( check my recipe for acorn squash seeds)
- take half (1/8c.)of the brown sugar and pack some ontop of the rim of the aquash. and the rest inside. repeat with other squash.
- sprinkle about 5 dashes of nutmeg and cinnamon on each side of the squash. inside and on the rim.
- place 2tbl. of butter in the center of each squash.
- bake for 45 minutes to an hour on a baking sheet or until all the meat of the squash is tender and soft.
- baste squash every 10-15 minutes during baking process..
- serve by using the shell of the squash as the bowl, mix pulp/meat of the squash with the butter and sugar inside. or scoop out into a bowl and serve.
- optional: scoop out the meat part of the cooked squash. place in a small casserole dish and sprinkle the top with mini marshmallows and bake until marshmallows are soft and melting and lightly browned. then serve.
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