Baked Acorn Mash Amongst Maple Glaze

Tender Baked Acorn Squash alongside a pure Maple Syrup Glaze makes for 1 of my all-time favorite autumn side dishes. Its uncomplicated deliciousness volition brand your stomach smile.

One of my all-time favorite flavors is maple. Since I grew upwardly inwards Vermont, that likely comes every bit no surprise. I mean, Vermont is, like, practically the maple syrup working capital alphabetic lineament of the world, afterward all. And 1 of my {many} favorite ways to bask maple is every bit a yummilicious glaze on acorn squash.
My Mom made this Baked Acorn Squash all the fourth dimension when I was growing up. The crush rings bake upwardly thence tender, alongside the uncomplicated maple glaze giving such a wonderful season ... sweet, but non besides sweet.

And the color is pretty too. Don't yous precisely dearest pretty food? That brilliant yellow-orange precisely makes me smile. {Oh, but non quite every bit much every bit I smiling when I larn a seize alongside teeth of this yumminess.}

To bake upwardly this beautiful yumminess, only launder an acorn crush or ii as well as cutting them inwards one-half horizontally ... that's this way:

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Scoop out the seeds ...

... as well as and then cutting the crush into pretty footling rings near 3/4-inch to 1-inch thick.

Place the rings inwards a baking dish inwards every bit roughly a unmarried layer every bit yous tin strength out get. It's okay if they overlap some ... sometimes I occupation ii baking dishes, depending on how large my crush are.

Once the crush rings are all nestled in, pour inwards some boiling water. And as well as then bake upwardly the crush rings alongside the H2O inwards the pan.

After a spell baking ... when the crush rings accept begun to larn tender ... take the pan from the oven as well as pour off the water. {Be careful!}

Then pour inwards the maple glaze mixture. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Oh yeah, that's the expert stuff.

Then bake 1 time to a greater extent than to larn the yummy maple season all expert as well as happy alongside the squash.

And at 1 time you're fix to dig inwards to deliciousness! Beautiful deliciousness. I bet yous can't aid but smiling at the yumminess!

Baked Acorn Squash alongside Maple Glaze

Source: My Mom

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

2 medium-sized acorn squash
2/3 c. pure maple syrup
4 T. butter, melted
1/2 tsp. salt

Directions

Scrub the exterior of the crush clean. Cut inwards one-half horizontally; take seeds as well as stringy fibers. Slice each one-half into rings near 3/4-inch to 1-inch thick. Arrange rings inwards a unmarried layer (they tin strength out overlap a some) inwards a baking dish coated alongside non-stick cooking spray. Pour boiling H2O into the bottom of the pan until it reaches a depth of near 1/4-inch. Bake crush at 375 degrees for xxx minutes.
While crush is baking, combine maple syrup, melted butter, as well as salt.
At the cease of the xxx infinitesimal baking time, take pan from the oven as well as pour out the H2O (be careful!), leaving the crush rings inwards the pan. Pour the maple syrup mixture over the drained crush rings. Bake an additional 20-30 minutes until the crush is tender, basting occasionally alongside the maple glaze.

Enjoy!

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