09 October 2010


I had never made acorn squash before, but I'm currently on a fall kick when it comes to cooking, so I thought I would give it a try. I stumbled across this Tyler Florence recipe and thought it sounded awesome. This is the first time I have made one of his recipes.

Roasted Amaretto Acorn Squash

Ingredients:
2 acorn squash, about 2 lb. each
Kosher salt
Olive oil
½ cup butter, softened
½ cup brown sugar
3 tbsp amaretto
½ cup vanilla wafers, crushed

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400°.

Split the squash in half and scrape out the seeds with a spoon. Set the squash halves, cut sides up, on a baking sheet and sprinkle with salt. Drizzle with olive oil. If squash are very large, cut lengthwise into quarters.

In a bowl, cream the butter with the sugar, and almond liqueur. With a brush or a spoon coat the cut sides of each squash half with the butter mixture. Sprinkle with the crushed cookies.

Bake until tender, about an hour, basting every 20 minutes with any remaining butter.

Makes 4 servings.


This is so good! I don't really like acorn squash that much; I think it's the texture. So the only way I can eat it is to make it sweet. And this recipe gets the job done! When he came up to the table, Jim said, "I see dessert, but where's dinner?" :) He loved it, of course. And I did too.

The original recipe called for 1 lb. acorn squash and it was supposed to cook for only 30-35 minutes. But the smallest ones I could find at the grocery store were 2 lbs. each. So if you can find smaller ones, they won't need to cook as long. The 2 lb. squash make the serving size a bit large (I couldn't finish my half), so if you can find the small ones, get those.

The amaretto is so good with this. I was going to try it with Frangelico (hazelnut liqueur), but they only had a huge bottle at the store and I didn't feel like spending $26 on it! So I got a small, cheap bottle of amaretto and now I'm glad I did because I loved it.

I highly recommend this recipe. I know I will be making it again!



I served these with Pecan Crusted Pork Chops. Great fall dinner!

Amy from A Little Nosh chose to make this recipe when she was assigned my blog for the Secret Recipe Club in October 2012.  Click on the button below to check out her post!

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4 comments:

  1. From Facebook:

    "Sounds INCREDIBLE."

    (Lora H.)

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    "I was just trying to figure out what to do with mine! Thanks for the post! :-)"

    (Laura W.)

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  3. From Facebook:

    "Could you just email Addie all of these recipes when you post them? :-) It would save me from always having to ask her "did you see what Lesa posted today?!" (Just kidding, don't email her, we'll just keep an eye on the tasty things you post.)"

    (Trevor D.)

    Actually there is a function on the blog where I can enter her email address and it will automatically email her every time I post. Let me know if you are interested. Glad you like it!

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  4. I've made this without the wafers and amaretto, and I can testify it is YUMMY!

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