Lentil and Pecan-Stuffed Acorn Squash

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By Joe Yonan

This lentil and pecan-stuffed acorn squash is conscionable affluent enough, acknowledgment to a generous magnitude of sage-infused brownish butter, but orangish foodstuff keeps the spirit bright. The crockery makes an fantabulous vegetarian main oregon broadside crockery for Thanksgiving oregon immoderate festival meal. Serve 1 squash fractional per impermanent arsenic a main course, oregon chopped each successful fractional again for a hearty broadside dish.

Ingredients

For the sage brownish butter

1 instrumentality (8 tablespoons/4 ounces) unsalted butter
10 caller sage leaves
1/8 spoon good salt

For the stuffed squash

3 acorn squash (about 1 lb each; whitethorn substitute carnival, saccharine dumpling oregon kabocha)
1 tablespoonful neutral oil, specified arsenic safflower lipid oregon rapeseed (canola) oil
1 tiny bulb (4 ounces), thinly sliced
4 ail cloves, finely grated
Leaves from 5 sprigs caller thyme
1 spoon good salt, positive much to taste
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/2 cupful achromatic vino oregon hard cider
1 cupful (7 1/2 ounces) lentils, immoderate colour but red
2 cups water
1/2 cupful (2 ounces) pecans, toasted and astir chopped
1 tablespoonful finely grated orangish zest
1/2 cupful caller orangish foodstuff (from 1 to 2 oranges)
2 1/2 ounces (about 1 cupful packed) freshly grated parmesan cheese

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (a stuffed squash half)

Calories
531
Fat
29 g
Saturated Fat
12 g
Carbohydrates
53 g
Sodium
635 mg
Cholesterol
50 mg
Protein
17 g
Fiber
16 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.

Adapted from “Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds, and Legumes” by Abra Berens (Chronicle Books, 2021).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published November 13, 2021

Updated March 17, 2026