{"id":333,"date":"2025-10-26T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/?p=333"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:41:14","slug":"333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/2025\/10\/26\/333\/","title":{"rendered":"Baked Stuffed Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Baked Stuffed Squash<\/h2>\n<p>Invented by Alyse and Erin with fridge leftovers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/edc1887fe75b50268eb18e53d41c0edc-2380206472-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of baked stuffed squash\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Servings: 2<br \/>\nPrep Time:  10-20 minutes<br \/>\nCook Time:  70 minutes<br \/>\nTotal Time:  80 minutes<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Ingredients<\/h3>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Amount<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Ingredient<\/th>\n<th>Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Sweet Dumpling or Delicata Squash<\/td>\n<td>Can use Acorn but cook times might be higher for step 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1LB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Ground Beef<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2 Cloves<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Garlic<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>.5-3 t<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Salt (or to taste)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1-2 t<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Ground Ginger<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1T<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Olive Oil<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1\/2 C<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Cooked rice<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1\/2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Diced apple<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1-2 T<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Butter<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Instructions<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat Oven to 350<\/li>\n<li>For Sweet dumpling squash: cut the top of the squash out, and scrape out the insides (seeds and pulp)\n<ol>\n<li>For Acord or delicata - cut in half scape out insides (seeds and pulp)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pierce around the insides of the squash with a knife or fork and sprinkle a little salt inside, drop in a little butter rub around the inside.  <\/li>\n<li>Put the squash opening up in a shallow pan with some water in the bottom and bake till tender \u2013 about 30-40 minutes.  <\/li>\n<li>While the squash is in the oven saut\u00e9 the onion and garlic with a little salt until the onions are soft and glassy.  \u200b<\/li>\n<li>Add the ground beef, cook the ground beef as if to make crumbles, sprinkle with more salt and ginger to taste..<\/li>\n<li>Once the beef is about 1\/2 cooked add the apple chunks and continue to cook until the meat is done.  <\/li>\n<li>Drain out any extraneous liquid (it doesn\u2019t need to be completely dry) and add the rice and mix thoroughly - add any additional seasoning desired.<\/li>\n<li>Once the squash is done, fill it with the meat mixture and put it back in the oven for another 30 minutes or until browned on top.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baked Stuffed Squash Invented by Alyse and Erin with fridge leftovers. Servings: 2 Prep Time: 10-20 minutes Cook Time: 70 minutes Total Time: 80 minutes Ingredients \u200b Amount Ingredient Notes 2 Sweet Dumpling or Delicata Squash Can use Acorn but cook times might be higher&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/2025\/10\/26\/333\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,18],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beef","category-main-dish","category-veggies","tag-squash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abzug.org\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}