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Recipe: Maple Butter Roasted Acorn Squash with Quinoa and Pecans | janavar

Recipe: Maple Butter Roasted Acorn Squash with Quinoa and Pecans

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients
  

  • 2 acorn squashes
  • 2 tbsp. butter
  • 6 tbsp. maple sirup
  • 1 cup quinoa
  • 2/3 cup dried cranberries
  • 3 tsp. pecan pieces
  • 1 cup spinach
  • 1 tsp. garlic
  • 1/3 onion
  • salt
  • pepper
  • nutmeg
  • thyme
  • red pepper flakes
  • crumbled blue cheese

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 200 °C (400 °F).
  • Cut the acorn squashes in half and scoop out the seeds.
  • In a little pan melt the butter and mix with 3 tbsp. of the maple sirup. Dab the mix on the insides of the squash halves.
  • Put the squash into the oven for about 35 minutes.
  • Cook the quinoa in a pot together with about 2 cups of water. It takes about 15 minutes until it's done. Let it cool down a little.
  • Mix the quinoa with all remaining ingredients except for the blue cheese.
  • After about 35 minutes take the squash out of the oven. Fill the quinoa mix into the halves. Put everything back into the oven for another 10 minutes.
  • After taking out the filled squash, sprinkle a bit of crumbled blue cheese on top of each half.