Moroccan-Style Stuffed Acorn Squash
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Vegetables, garbanzos, raisins and couscous in a lovely Moroccan broth taste delicious inside butter and brown sugar-brushed acorn squash. You can experiment with different vegetables, or add diced chicken. Feel free to be creative with your amounts - I usually freestyle and end up with leftover stuffing mixture, which tastes great on its own the next day. For vegetarians, substitute vegetable broth for the chicken broth.
Servings per recipe: 4
Calories per serving: 502
Preparation time: 15m
Total cooking time: 1h
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 2 large acorn squash, halved and seeded
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 1 cup garbanzo beans, drained
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 1/2 tablespoons ground cumin
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 (14 ounce) can chicken broth
- 1 cup uncooked couscous
Directions:
- 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- 2 Arrange squash halves cut side down on a baking sheet. Bake 30 minutes, or until tender. Dissolve the sugar in the melted butter. Brush squash with the butter mixture, and keep squash warm while preparing the stuffing.
- 3 Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in the garlic, celery, and carrots, and cook 5 minutes. Mix in the garbanzo beans and raisins. Season with cumin, salt, and pepper, and continue to cook and stir until vegetables are tender.
- 4 Pour the chicken broth into the skillet, and mix in the couscous. Cover skillet, and turn off heat. Allow couscous to absorb liquid for 5 minutes. Stuff squash halves with the skillet mixture to serve.
Nutrion facts:
| Total Fat | 11.7g | 18% |
| Saturated Fat | 3.0g | |
| Cholesterol | 10mg | 3% |
| Sodium | 728mg | 29% |
| Potassium | 1464mg | 41% |
| Total Carbohydrates | 93.8g | 30% |
| Dietary Fiber | 10.7g | 43% |
| Protein | 11.2g | 22% |
| Sugars | 15g | |
| Vitamin A | 7455IU | |
| Vitamin C | 38mg | |
| Calcium | 181mg | |
| Iron | 5mg | |
| Thiamin | 1mg | |
| Niacin | 6mg | |
| Vitamin B6 | 1mg | |
| Magnesium | 140mg | |
| Folate | 120mcg |
