Description
Acorn Squash and the other winter squashes make it easy to have a fresh vegetable with every dinner. They are nutritious, inexpensive, easy to prepare, and they keep well.
Yield
4 Servings
Preparation time
5 minutes
Cooking time
1 hour
Total time
1 hour, 5 minutes
Ingredients
111 Acorn Squash
2 T Butter
1 T Maple Syrup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Cut the squash into quarters and scrape out the seeds.
- Grease a baking pan with some butter and rub the rest into the cut squash.
- Stir in the maple syrup.
- Bake for 45 minutes or so, until tender.
Notes
This can be served as fresh-roasted quarters of squash, or you can scoop out the tender squash and mash it in a bowl with butter and maybe a sprinkle of cinnamon or nutmeg.