Baked Squash With Apples And Cranberries

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 acorn squash (about 2 to 2-1/2 pounds total)
• nonstick cooking spray
• 1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries
• 1/3 cup frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon finely shredded orange peel
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 medium tart apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices (such as granny smith)
• 2 tablespoons maple-flavored syrup
• 2 tablespoons chopped toasted pecans

Recipe

• 1 cut squash crosswise into 1/2-inch slices, remove seeds and strings. lightly coat a 15x10x1-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
• 2 arrange squash slices in baking pan, overlapping slightly, if necessary. bake, uncovered, in a 350 degree f oven 25 to 30 minutes or until squash is tender, turning once during baking.
• 3 meanwhile, in a medium saucepan combine the cranberries, apple juice concentrate, brown sugar, orange peel, and cloves.
• 4 bring to boiling; reduce heat, simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until slightly thickened.
• 5 stir in apples.
• 6 simmer, covered, for 7 minutes more or just until apples are tender, stirring occasionally.
• 7 remove from heat and stir in maple syrup.
• 8 to serve:.
• 9 arrange squash slices on plate.
• 10 spoon the apple mixture over the squash pieces.
• 11 sprinkle with pecans. .