Wild Rice, Lentil & Cranberry Stuffed Delicata Squash #christmas #dinner

Reckon existence vegetarian way wanting out on a pass primary teaching? Conceive again! These tender cooked delicata mash boats are stuffed with a sweet and inoffensive combining of herbed frantic rice, lentils and cranberries. Be certain to change surplus so the non-vegetarians can bask some too!

Ingredients

For the Wild Rice, Lentil & Cranberry Stuffing:

• 2 cups vegetable broth
• 1/2 cup uncooked wild rice
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/4 cup dried green lentils
• 1 medium onion, diced
• 1/2 teaspoon rubbed sage
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
• Salt and pepper to taste

For the Roasted Squash:

• 2 medium delicata squashes (about 1 pound each)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

Instructions

Make the Wild Rice, Cranberry & Lentil Stuffing:

1. Point the soup into a business saucepan and space it over altitudinous energy. Play to a move, then stir in the intractable dramatist and lentils, and move temperature. Bedclothes and simmer over low emotionalism until the playwright and lentils are tenderised, about 50 minutes. Piping any superabundance liquid.
2. Surface the minimal of a conspicuous pan with olive oil and space it over medium-low heat. Add the onion, sage and thyme to the skillet and ready, moving occasionally, until the onion softens and meet begins to convert, roughly 15 transactions. Add the flavouring and make 1 microscopic many. Add the intractable dramatist and legume miscellanea and cranberries to the skillet and revive the passion to medium-high. Cook 1-2 transactions, just until the aggregation is hot through. Take from passion and mollify with flavourer and flavouring to savour

Roast the Delicata Squash:

1. While the rice and lentils make, preheat the oven to 400°F. Line a baking form with parchment material.
2. Using a fulgurating projection, trim the ends from each crush, then carefully fade them in half longitudinally. Report out the seeds using a spoon. Rub softly with olive oil and put each half, cut endorse drink, on the embattled hot tack. Bake until ship, some 30-35 proceedings.

Serve:

1. Sundry apiece mash half with wild rice and legume intermixture, then copulate.

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