Bourbon Baked Acorn Squash
Bourbon Baked Acorn Squash
Vegetables
Ingredients
- 1 acorn squash
- 1/3 cup Iron Fish Bourbon maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons Fustini's Maple balsamic vinegar,
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons bourbon
- 2 tablespoons butter
- few pinches of nutmeg
pecan halves, optional
Directions
Preheat oven to 375. In a bowl, mix syrup, vinegar, lemon juice, vanilla and bourbon together. Cut acorn squash in half and brush mixture on top with a pastry brush. Set squash cut side up in a baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and brush mixture over squash again. Pour the remaining mixture into each squash cavity equally, adding pecan halves if desired. Top with 1 tablespoon butter each and a sprinkle of nutmeg. Bake for 20 more minutes.
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