These Sausage and Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash are the perfect appetizer for the holidays or get together, sure to leave your taste buds singing!
Thanksgiving is right around the corner and the preparations are in full swing starting with my Sausage and Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash! For the last few years we have been away from family during the holidays and decided to spend our holidays together making new traditions and trying new things. One way we can do that is by having a “friendsgiving” and inviting our friends over to celebrate. One year we had our super sweet neighbors over and our kids really enjoyed having visitors over. An exciting thing about having friends over is the appetizers that are served. Remember how I said we like trying new things since we don’t have the traditional Thanksgiving being away from family? Well today I’m going to share an appetizer recipe that is not only gorgeous, but packed full of flavor! This Sausage and Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash is the perfect dish to make or take to a friends house!
So let’s get started on this new Thanksgiving favorite – Stuffed Acorn Squash
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Sausage and Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 mins
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
These Sausage and Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash are the perfect appetizer for the holidays or get together, sure to leave your taste buds singing!
Ingredients
- 3 Acorn Squash, halved
- Olive Oil
- Salt & Pepper
- 1 lb Ground Sausage
- 1 Small Onion, finely chopped
- 2 Large Celery Stalks, finely chopped
- 2 Apples, diced
- 1/2 tsp sage
- 1 cup Panko Bread Crumbs
- 1 cup Parmasean Cheese, divided
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Using a sharp knife cut off each end of the acorn squash removing as little as possible, then cut in half.
- Spoon out seeds.
- Brush olive oil inside and on top of Acorn Squash.
- Sprinkle Salt and Pepper over Acorn Squash to taste.
- Bake for 40 minutes to an hour depending on size of your squash until tender and you can pierce with a fork, but still holding it’s shape.
- While the squash is baking begin sautéing the sausage for about 5 minutes, drain and pat dry with a paper towel to remove as much grease as possible, but don’t discard grease in the pan.
- Using the grease from the sausage add your onions and celery to the pan and sauté for another 2-3 minutes until it starts to brown. (add olive oil if necessary)
- Add apples and sauté for another 2 minutes or until softened.
- Stir in sage and bread crumbs.
- Add 3/4 cup parmesan cheese and stir until cheese begins to melt. Set aside.
- Once squash has finished baking and reached desired tenderness spoon in meat mixture until the squash is filled.
- Return to the oven and bake an additional 15-20 minutes depending on size of squash.
- Remove from oven and top with remaining parmesan cheese.
- Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we have, it’s such a fun little twist for Thanksgiving!
Wow, Ashley, these look amazing! They are appealing to the eye as well as, I’m sure, to the pallet! I tend to get stuck cooking all squash the same way so I’m excited to try something new! Thanks for sharing.
Shonee
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These are so delicious!! My husband and kids (10,12) love them too!!
Oh my goodness! These were amazing. I meant to leave a comment months ago when I first tried them. I omitted the onions to make it a little more kid-friendly but everything else was the same. (And maybe added a little parm!) Great recipe! I have it on the menu to make this week. So excited! My mouth is watering already. Thank you!
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I just made these for supper and they were very good and fall-like. I did not have fresh parmesan cheese, only about 2 T. in the bottom of my container. So that was all the parmesan I put in in. Thank you for the recipe!
Do you think this recipe could be frozen to heat up for a quick meal another time?
Hmm.. I’ve never tried. I’d be a little afraid of the soggy-ness. However if you do try it, make sure your meat was frozen previous to cooking it.
So I’ve frozen these and reheated them. They’re awesome and reheat super well. I’ll put one squash half per Tupperware and then I can grab a frozen Tupperware on my way out the door and microwave at school. So yummy
do you think you could use ground beef instead of sausage?
I would think you could use Ground beef. The sausage seasonings go well with the apple, so that might be why that was first choice. Not sure about freezing these. I would be afraid they’d get soggy.
I have frozen a similar recipe but freeze only the stuffing by itself. The squash is best roasted fresh
It this Italian sausage or Jimmy Dean breakfast type of sausage :)
Yes, I’m sure that would be fine.
What kind of sausage is it exactly? I’d like to try this over the weekend. Thank you.
Made these tonight for family dinner…one word- AMAZING!! Although I accidentally bought Italian seasoned bread crumbs, it was still delicious ???? my 3 year old (who isn’t a picky eater) loved them also! Definitely will be making these again!!
5 stars for sure ⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️
My wife is a VERY picky eater and she LOVED these! I took the leftovers to work the next day and the whole office wanted the recipe for sure. This one is definitely a keeper!
“For sure” should have been at the end of my last sentence. No idea what happened there.
What about chicken sausage?
I always use chicken sausage..comes out great..This time I used a hammer to help me get the knife threw the acorn sqush
This recipe was amazing! I do have to find a better way to cut the squash, I gave myself a pretty nasty cut while doing it. Even with all that, I made it last night and I’m already thinking about when I can make it again! So delicious!!! Everyone must make this. Your house will smell all warm and cozy and you will swear you are putting Fall directly into your mouth. I can’t wait to have my leftovers for lunch!
You could try to microwave for just 1-2 minutes, just to soften the outer shell. Oh and wrap in a damp towel, (paper) keeps moisture in. This is just to take the hardness out of shell! Not to cook! Then cut.
Why don’t you food blog! This way your recipes will be read by all and the amazing food tasted by many!
Margie
Aww Margie, you are too sweet! I actually used to share a little food, and then my sister started doing the recipes, and then unfortunately had to quit blogging, but I’ve actually thought about picking back up and doing a little more food. I know my husband and kids wouldn’t be upset about that, lol!
There is a restaurant in Minnesota which serves something very similar, but with goat cheese and candied pecans on top. I was looking for a recipe to try to re-create it as it is a seasonal dish, only served in the fall and can’at wait to try this one (with goat cheese and candied pecans).
Made it last night and my boyfriend (not necessarily a squash fan) LOVED it!
These were really wonderful, we paired them with wild rice and a beet salad. Next time I would probably use more sage and possibly some nuts?? Great recipe, thank you so much!
These were excellent. Lots of taste, healthy and satisfying. I used turkey sausage and added a little extra sage. I will be making them again.
This is going to be the year that I try acorn squash! Your recipe looks so good! Thanks for sharing with us at Merry Monday.
I absolutely loved this recipe and plan to make it again and again and share it with friends and family.!m.
Made it tonight out of nowhere and my partner was just looking at me like huh!! I’m not eating that!! He had 2 servings. Thanks for sharing.
This dish was great. I made it with turkey sausage and added some red peppers. Thank you so much for the idea. Even the kids loved it.
I made these acorns and this time I added couscous with sausage and apple ???? pear ???? and dried cranberries with Asiago cheese and a hint of parmigiana cheese .. it came out delicious
This was absolutely delicious! My husband and I loved it. I used Jimmy Dean’s Sage flavored breakfast sausage and added garlic. I will definitely be making again. Thank you!
This was delicious! I added garlic and used Sage breakfast sausage. Will definitely be making again, thank you!
There’s a little bottle of something in the pics. What is it? Would love to know.
That is a balsamic vinegarette FromTrader Joes it’s so yum. I was wondering same thing . Is it supposed to be in recipe ????????♀️
Absolutely delicious! I made the last night. Picture perfect! We loved them. They’re big enough for the main coourse. I microwaved the acorn squash for 8 minutes instead of the first round of baking the plain squash—cut The cooking time way down.
Thank you for this nice addition to my dinner[ recipes.
What kind of apples do you use?
Absolutely LOVE this recipe!! Been a family hit for a few years now! We sometimes just eat the filling in a taco! Thanks for posting!
Thanks so much Tracy!! So glad you enjoyed them!!
This was EXACTLY what I was hoping for! Made it gluten free (added GF breadcrumbs) and it was perfect! Thank you!
Yay!! So glad you liked it!
I made these last night. Well, sort of. I didn’t have apples, so I used fresh cranberries, a bit of maple syrup and topped with goat cheese. Thanks for the inspiration!
Yum! I love goat cheese! So glad you enjoyed it!
Loved it. Will make again. Thank you????!
This looks so good! Gonna make it this weekend. What kind of apples would you suggest?
Delicious. I didn’t have breadcrumbs so I used 1 c. leftover white rice instead, and it was fine. I had way too much filling (I think my acorn squash were on the small side) so I’m going to freeze the extra. I’ll comment again when I thaw it and use it with new squash to let people know how that goes…I’m thinking it will be fine to freeze.
What kind of sausage did you use? Breakfast sausage? Italian sausage?
So delicious! This was my first time trying an acorn squash recipe and this did not disappoint :)
What are paleo bread crumbs?
I really liked the way the recipe flowed. Stuffing delish. My wife and I felt it needed a little sweet so we sprinkled a some brown sugar on the squash. It worked for us,thank so much this was our first experience with stuffed squash.
I think this looks fabulous, and flavor-wise it makes more sense than the version I’ve done which does not include sweet ingredients. I’ve got a bottle of balsamic glaze which I forget to use. Think I’ll drizzle it on top. Will also try some of the variations I’ve seen mentioned, e.g., goat cheese, pecans, garlic. I will suggest: do look for bigger acorn squash as it’s not a big cavity to start with. Thanks so much!
These rocked, one of the prettiest things I’ve ever made! I used apple sage sausage and cut back to one apple to account for it. I used gouda on the top instead of parm, because it’s what I had. I made no other changes. I am going to make these again ASAP.
So good! The only thing I did different was I used long grain and wild rice instead of the panko. Totally didn’t realize I was out of bread crumbs until I had already started cooking, and had to improvise. My boyfriend’s response when I told him what we were having was “sounds healthy…”. Then when he actually tried it said ” oh wow, this has a lot of flavor”. I could feed him the best meal ever, and he would say it “tasted fine”. So it’s really a high compliment coming from him, lol. Definitely going into the Fall meal rotation.
Phenomenal recipe! Will definitely make again.
Thanks Ashley, Really this is an Awesome collection of photo. Definitely, i will try at my home today because of see this recipe & pic water comes in to my tongue. LOL!
They taste as delicious as they look in these photos. Thank you for a great share. Loved it!
Loved it. Hubby loves it. Thank you.
This is exactly what I wanted to know before going on a picnic.
Sounds delicious! What kind of apple would you suggest?
Thank you!
True, I tried them while traveling and trust me, they were delicious. I literally enjoyed having these apple stuffed acorn squash while playing basketball on outdoor basketball courts.
Thank you for the delicious recipe. I didn’t have Panko and I’m doing keto so I used almond flour and they turned out perfect!!
Definitely going to make these again. A perfect fall dish
I made this tonight and absolutely loved it! I used chicken sausage and granny smith apples. I’ll definitely be making this again before the fall is up!
This recipe is absolutely delicious! My Mother-in-Law made it, and I was instantly hooked! So delicious, with a variety of flavors! I kept everything just about the same when I made it, maybe adding a little extra parmesan if anything. Such a winner, and it went right in my recipe book! Thank you for sharing!
It sounds really delicious and yummy :D
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Thanks for sharing
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LOVED this recipe. I definitely had enough stuffing to fill 4 acorns.
Easy to make and very flavorful.
Great to read
Thanks for sharing such a nice article. i really appreciate.
Thanks for sharing
Hmm. I have never tried it but seems lovely.. Definitely gonna try it soon…..
WOAH, Ashley, these look amazing as well as it tastes amazing! I tried it and my whole family loves it. love your all recipes! lots of love for you! keep it up :)
Amazing! Made these tonight for family dinner…one word- AMAZING!! Although I accidentally bought Italian seasoned bread crumbs, it was still delicious
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This looks so yummy, going to do it this weekend!
It is really delicious, amazing and yummy :D
Amazing! Made these tonight for family dinner…one word- AMAZING!! Although I accidentally bought Italian seasoned bread crumbs, it was still delicious
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I think I’m missing a step–when do I return the sausage to the pan–immediately after I drain it? Or after I add the onion, celery, and apples?
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This was absolutely delicious! my family loved it
Yay! So glad you enjoyed it!
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This recipe looks amazing, I am gonna try it for sure. Looking for your another recipe.Loved it
WOAH, Ashley, these look amazing as well as it tastes amazing.
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This was absolutely delicious