Butternut Squash Stuffed with Cranberry Orange Relish
From All-Creatures.org Vegan Recipe Book: How Mary and Frank and Friends Eat

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Ingredients

1 Butternut Squash
Cinnamon
Apple Juice
Cranberry Orange Relish (or select another recipe)

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Preparation

Butternut squash stuffed with cranberry orange relish is a delicious vegan recipe for Thanksgiving or any other meal when butternut squash and cranberries are in season. This recipe takes about 15 minutes to prepare and about 30 minutes to cook one large butternut squash in a microwave oven set on high heat. If you are cooking more than one large squash, it is best to bake them in a conventional oven at 350 degrees F. until they soften.

One large butternut squash will serve 2 adults as a main meal.  If you wish to serve the butternut squash as a side dish, use smaller size squash, so that each person would be served a half with cranberry orange relish.

Wash the butternut squash and cut it in half lengthwise. Scoop out the seed, and set the squash aside in a covered glass baking dish. (Squash seed may be saved for toasting. See: Squash Seeds, Toasted)

Fill the seed cavity about half full with apple juice and sprinkle some cinnamon on the surface of the butternut squash halves. Cover the baking dish and bake in a microwave oven on "high" or in a conventional oven at 350 degrees F. until the squash is tender. If the squash is too large for your covered baking dish, use a larger glass baking pan and cover with plastic wrap if baking in a microwave oven or with aluminum foil if baking in a conventional oven.

When the butternut squash are cooked, remove from the oven, and fill the seed cavity with the cranberry orange relish just prior to serving.  We enjoy the contrast between the hot squash and the cool cranberry orange relish.

Serve and enjoy!

Ingredients Information

Apple Juice

Cinnamon, ground

Squash, Butternut

Cranberry Orange Relish

Utensils and Equipment Information

Baking Pan, Glass

Dish, Ceramic Baking

Knives

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The above recipe is in keeping with God's creation intent (Genesis 1:29-31): 'Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-- everything that has the breath of life in it-- I give every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.' (NIV) Let no animal suffer or die that we may live!