Baked Acorn Squash Rings

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
   
2. Do not peel your Acorn squash, the contrast of green and orange makes a beautiful meal display of taste and colors.  You can eat the Acorn Squash ring if you like – although we normally don’t.  Once cooked, the skin easily pulls away from the squash with a fork.
3. Cut 1/2 inch from top, and bottom of squash and discard.
4. Cut remaining squash into 3/4″ rings, and use a spoon to scoop out the seeds from the middle of each ring.
   
5. Place squash rings on baking sheet.
   
6. Melt 3Tbsp of butter, and mix well with brown sugar.
   
7. Using a brush, glaze the top side of your squash rings with the butter/brown sugar mixture.
   
8. Bake squash rings in preheated oven for 12 minutes.
   
9. Remove squash rings from oven, flip rings over and glaze other side with butter/sugar mixture.
   
10. Place rings back in oven for another 10 – 12 minutes, until golden and caramelized.
    
11. Remove rings from baking dish, while still hot, as the sugar will harden and make it difficult for removal, once it cools.
    
12. Acorn squash rings are excellent served as a side dish, or for a little more flare, serve with cranberry stuffing in the center of squash rings. For the love of food!