Spicy apple-filled squash

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 Acorn squash (about 1 pound)
1 Golden delicious apple; peeled, cored and sliced
2 teaspoons Melted butter or margarine
2 teaspoons Packed brown sugar
⅛ teaspoon Ground cinnamon
⅛ teaspoon Ground nutmeg
1 dash Ground cloves

Directions

Heat oven to 350 F. Grease a small baking dish. Halve squash and remove seeds; bake 35 minutes. Keep oven on. Cut squash halves in two; turn cut sides up. In small bowl, combine apples, butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves and mix well. Top squash pieces with apple mixture. Cover and bake 30 minutes or until apples are tender. Serve. MICROWAVE VERSION Halve and seed squash. Arrange, cut side up on thick paper towel on microwave floor. Microwave on HIGH 6 to 7 minutes, rotating squash halfway through cooking time. Remove from microwave and place in microwave-safe dish; cut halves in two. In small bowl, combine apples, butter, sugar and spices as above. Top squash pieces with apple mixture, cover with vented plastic wrap and microwave on HIGH 4 to 5 minutes or until squash and apples are tender. busted by sooz Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 179 by James and Susan Kirkland <kirkland@...> on Oct 29, 1997

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