sausage stuffed squash

How To Make sausage stuffed squash

• Step 1
  Cut squash in half. Scoop out seeds. Place cut-side down in a baking dish with enough water to come about 1/2 inch up the sides. Bake at 350deg for 30-40min. Take out and let cool.
• Step 2
  While squash is baking, cook rice according to directions.
• Step 3
  When rice is cooked and squash is cool enough to handle, scoop out the flesh of the squash into a bowl, leaving about 1 inch in the rind. Mix the cooked squash with the cooked rice and the sausage. Fill in the shells of the squash, drizzle with maple syrup to taste (1-2tbls over each maybe?) and bake in 350 oven for another 45min to an hour. Internal temp should be 165 by meat thermometer.
• Step 4
  Optional additions: -- You can saute mushrooms and mix this in with the filling. -- Add chopped apples (fine chop, about 1/4inch dice) -- Add chopped onions to the mix, or saute them first and mix them in -- Switch out the grains, use barley, buckwheat, amaranth or quinoa
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