# Stuffed Squash

This is a festive stuffed butternut squash recipe with various flavorful layers, perfect as a Christmas centerpiece.

- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 whole butternut squash
- homegrown onions
- balsamic vinegar
- sugar
- Christmas rice
- dried apricots
- chestnuts
- mixed nuts
- spices
- foraged hedgehog mushrooms
- cranberry sauce
- sweet roasted peppers
- sundried tomatoes
- fresh spinach

## Instructions

1. Roast a whole butternut squash.
2. Caramelize some homegrown onions in balsamic vinegar and sugar until sticky and tangy.
3. Mix Christmas rice with dried apricots, chestnuts, mixed nuts, and spices.
4. Sauté foraged hedgehog mushrooms until golden and meaty.
5. Scoop out some of the roasted squash flesh and stir it through the rice.
6. Add a layer of delicious cranberry sauce into the squash.
7. Pile on top the rice mixture, caramelized onions, sweet roasted peppers, mushrooms, sundried tomatoes, and fresh spinach.
8. Put the squash back together, tie it up.
9. Give it a final roast in the oven for all the flavors to get to know each other.

## Equipment

- oven

## Source

- Original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/iCjF-yZm7ig?si=0YMipDDE2x1R1_D5
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/8ab9d5fa-1674-46c1-9053-c87a5b59ca14
- Extracted: 2025-12-19

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