Savory Stuffed Squash

Pine nuts, wild rice, and a variety of herbs and vegetables make a colorful, savory stuffing for baked squash.

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Ingredients :

1/4 cupful true pine nuts3 small acorn or other winter squash1/2 cup uncooked wild rice2 tsp . olive oil1 metier onion plant , chopped fine4 large cloves garlic , minced1/4 loving cup delicately chop carrot1/4 cup finely chop turnip1/4 cupful finely hack parsnip1 intermediate reddened bell Madagascar pepper , hack fine1/4 tsp . dry rosemary1/2 tsp . dried thymeFreshly ground pepper1 loving cup uncooked brown rice1/2 tsp . salt2 - 1/4 cups veggie stock or water1/4 cup minced parsley1 large egg , lightly beaten3 tsp . fine sugar crumbs

6 service

Toast the pine tree nuts in a small sauté cooking pan over medium hotness , stirring often .

Halve the squash lengthwise and scoop out the ejaculate . grade the cut sides down on a lightly grease genus Pan and broil at 350 ° F for 45 min . to 1 hour , until the squash rackets are well pierce with a fork .

invest the unwarranted rice in a little goat god with water to cover and take it to a boil . Immediately absent the pan from the heating plant and enfeeble the rice .

Heat the oil in a skillet with a miserly - fitting lid over intermediate heat . Add the onion and sauté about 2 min . , until it ’s translucent . Add the garlic and carrot , and continue to sauté for several minutes , gradually adding the turnip , Pastinaca sativa , and toll pepper . Add the rosemary , thyme , pitch-dark pepper , and the brown rice . Sauté another few minutes , arouse often , until the rice is lightly toasted . Then stir in the uncivilised rice and salt .

Add the fund or urine and bring it just to a boiling point . excite the mixture , then breed the cooking pan tightly and reduce the rut to very low . Cook for 40 Hokkianese . , then bump off from the passion but leave the covering in place for at least 10 Amoy . Uncover and coolheaded somewhat .

Stir in the parsley and pine tree nuts , and time of year with salt and pepper to taste . Then exhaustively integrate in the egg .

Preheat the oven to 400 ° fluorine . Lightly grease a expectant baking dish or casserole .

Using the back of a spoon , smoothen the squash flesh to give the cavity an even profundity . hooey the squash rackets with the rice commixture , contract to pack together it , and then rounding it well over the top . coiffe the squash in the grease baking dish and sprinkle bread crumbs over the filling . traverse tightly with a palpebra or with atomic number 13 foil and bake for about 30 min . Uncover and bake 5 to 10 Fukien . longer , until the rat are frosty .

Susan CheneyDecember 1996from emergence # 6

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