Baked Ricotta-and-Vegetable-Stuffed Squash

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I’m ever looking for ways to marque dishes meatless without sacrificing spirit oregon substance. With that successful mind, the beauteous assortment of wintertime squashes astatine a section marketplace inspired this dish. In the past I utilized sausage to spirit the filling, but here, baked vegetables boost the taste.

There’s immoderate prep enactment involved, but the bully quality is that these stuffed squash halves are champion if baked aboriginal successful the time and reheated astatine dinnertime, truthful there's nary last-minute rush. The remainder play gives the filling clip to acceptable perfectly.

You tin marque this with acorn squash, but I similar Carnival, a yellow-orange- and green-skinned assortment shaped similar the acorn but with denser, little watery and much flavorful flesh. Another bully prime is the Dumpling, somewhat smaller and overmuch sweeter.

The baked squash request to remainder for astatine slightest 30 minutes and up to 8 hours earlier serving.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

3 Carnival, Dumpling oregon acorn squashes, chopped successful fractional lengthwise and seeded (each 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 pounds)
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tiny onion, chopped into astir 1/4-inch dice (8 ounces)
1 tiny reddish doorbell pepper, chopped into astir 1/4-inch dice (5 ounces)
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
2 mean zucchinis, chopped into astir 1/4-inch dice (8 ounces)
8 ounces achromatic oregon cremini mushrooms, chopped into astir 1/4-inch dice
1 ample egg, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups part-skim ricotta
6 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
Freshly crushed nutmeg

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
280
Fat
12 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
33 g
Sodium
230 mg
Cholesterol
60 mg
Protein
14 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published October 9, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026