Roasted Acorn Squash with Sausage, Farro, Spinach, and Feta
Roasted Acorn Squash with Sausage, Farro, Spinach, and Feta

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I love how easy this recipe is for such a beautiful looking dish. The roasted acorn squash is its own bowl! It's stuffed with pork sausage, farro, spinach.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook roasted acorn squash with sausage, farro, spinach, and feta using 11 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Roasted Acorn Squash with Sausage, Farro, Spinach, and Feta:
  1. Take 2 small acorn squash
  2. Get 2-4 Tbsp. light olive oil
  3. Make ready 2 Tbsp. butter, divided into 4
  4. Make ready 1/2 cup farro or wheat berries
  5. Take 2 cups water
  6. Make ready 1 large shallot, chopped finely
  7. Prepare 2 garlic cloves, minced
  8. Take 1/2 fennel bulb, chopped
  9. Take 1 cup pork sausage without casing
  10. Prepare 2 cups spinach, chopped
  11. Prepare 2 oz feta, crumbled

Rinse to clean and drain farro. Add the farro and the caramelized onions to the sausage. This Roasted Acorn Squash is one of my favorite side dishes to make in the fall, and it's one of the easiest acorn squash recipes you can make! Because squash has a natural sweetness to it, I find roasting to be the best method, because it intensifies and caramelizes the sweetness and flavors in.

Steps to make Roasted Acorn Squash with Sausage, Farro, Spinach, and Feta:
  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
  2. Cut acorn squash in half from bottom to top. Scoop out all of the seeds with a spoon. Brush olive oil all inside.
  3. Place 1/2 tablespoon of butter in bottom of each squash. Season with salt and pepper.
  4. Place squash on a baking sheet with parchment paper in the oven and roast for 30-45 minutes. The squash is fork-tender when done.
  5. While the squash is roasting, cook the farro.
  6. In a medium saucepan, boil 2 cups of water with a pinch of salt. Rinse and place the farro in the boiling water, cover and reduce heat to a simmer. At about 30 minutes, check for doneness. They should be chewy but not tough. If not quite done, continue cooking and checking every 5 minutes. You may need to cook them up to 25 minutes longer depending on the variety you get.
  7. In a medium sauce pan, brown the pork sausage, drain the fat, and set aside.
  8. In a large sauté pan on medium heat, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil and sauté garlic, shallots, and fennel for 8 minutes.
  9. Add the sausage to the pan and mix in for a few more minutes.
  10. Add the farro and combine for a few minutes.
  11. Sprinkle 3/4 of the feta into the mixture until melted. (reserve 1/4 of the crumbles to sprinkle on top)
  12. Add spinach and let it wilt into the mixture.
  13. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
  14. When the acorn squash comes out of the oven, let them rest for 4 minutes and then spoon the mixture into the squash.
  15. Sprinkle the rest of the feta on top and serve!

This is another good way to fix acorn squash, Plus get another vegetable(Spinach) to help get your With tongs or a spatula, turn squash halves over and spoon spinach mixture equally into cavities of Like many, I used this as a template recipe and it is a worthy recipe. I had some feta cheese on hand. This Stuffed Acorn Squash is fall embodied in one recipe. It will become a quick favorite with its healthy mix of sweet and savory in one filling and satisfying For some reason, I associate stuffed squash with being difficult to make or a hassle but it's actually so easy! I made the farro in the morning so it.

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