Baked Acorn Squash with Apricot Preserves recipe

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Ingredients

1 acorn squash, halved and seeded
salt to taste
2 teaspoons butter
3 tablespoons apricot preserves

Nutrition Info

104.2 calories
carbohydrate: 22.7 g
cholesterol: 5.4 mg
fat: 2.2 g
fiber: 1.9 g
protein: 1.1 g
saturatedFat: 1.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 24.2 mg
sugar: 9.3 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

  2. Place squash halves cut side down in a baking dish. Fill the dish with water to the depth of 1/4 inch. Bake 40 minutes in the preheated oven.

  3. Remove squash from oven, and set the oven to broil. Turn squash cut side up in the dish, and season lightly with salt. Place 1 teaspoon butter and 1 1/2 tablespoons apricot preserves in each squash half. Return to oven, and broil 5 minutes, or until butter is melted and squash is lightly browned.

Recipe Yield

4 servings

Recipe Note

My 5 year old said that she hated acorn squash, even though she had never actually tried it. I got her to eat one bite of this and she said, 'This tastes yummy!'

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