Stuffed Acorn Squash - A Cheater
Recipe: #2160
November 07, 2011
Categories: Side Dishes, Onions, Spinach, Squash, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Rim, Brunch, Fathers Day, Labor Day, Mothers Day, St Patricks Day, Oven Roast, Diabetic, Heart Healthy, Low Fat, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Dinner, more
"This is a cheater recipe, so much quicker and easy too. The method gives a good tasty result, almost as good as roasted from the start. (Spinach blocks - I buy a brand of frozen spinach that comes in a bag of individually frozen small blocks of spinach - they are wonderful for adding to recipes such as soups, stews and stuffing mixes, especially good cooked in with rice instant or otherwise; just decrease the about of liquid used.)"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (329.5 g)
- Calories 393.1
- Total Fat - 5.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.1 g
- Cholesterol - 2.7 mg
- Sodium - 769.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 75.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 6.9 g
- Sugars - 4.7 g
- Protein - 10.7 g
- Calcium - 109.6 mg
- Iron - 4 mg
- Vitamin C - 32.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.5 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Pre heat oven to 400F degrees. Wash the squash and cut in half through the middle. Cut a small slice off the bottom of each half , if necessary so they will sit level. Place halves on microwavable safe plate, Microwave on high for 5 minutes.
Step 2
In the meantime, place rice, chicken stock, olive oil, salt, spinach blocks, onions and pepper in a saucepan, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer until rice is softened, spinach is defrosted, and most of the liquid is absorbed; about 10 minutes; stir to mix.
Step 3
Cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil for easy clean up; place microwave softened squash on sheet; spray cavity with veggie spray and sprinkle each with salt and freshly ground pepper.
Step 4
Fill each squash half with rice mixture and place 2 slices of Havarti cheese on top of each half. Roast on middle rack of oven for 20 minutes or until bubbly and golden.
Tips
No special items needed.