Sweet Acorn Squash

I love acorn squash! And, I have converted non acorn squash eaters into acorn squash lovers with this easy recipe! One acorn squash makes 2 servings. The recipe is for two servings. Cooking time is one hour.

Ingredients
1 acorn squash
butter
brown sugar or real maple syrup

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Wash and dry the acorn squash. Cut it in half.

Cut the acorn squash in half

Scoop out the seeds and rinse them, the dry them on a paper towel.

Squash with the seeds removed

You can plant these in your vegetable garden!

Save the seeds for the garden!

Take a cookie sheet and line it with aluminum foil. Grease the foil with butter. Lay the acorn squash cut side down

Butter your pan and lay the squash face down on the buttered foil

and bake for 30 minutes. At the 30 minute mark, remove the pan from the oven. Turn the acorn squash over so that the bowl in the squash is right side up. To the bowl add 2 TBS. of butter and a couple of spoonfuls of brown sugar or maple syrup. If using maple syrup, fill the bowl about 1/2 way with syrup.

Butter and maple syrup added

Place the pan back into the oven and continue baking for another 30 minutes.

Acorn squash is ready!

You can serve this with a number of dishes, but I really like this with my rotisserie ham!