Recipe: Delicious Bacon Beef Butternut Squash

Bacon Beef Butternut Squash. Then to "top" it off, caramelized onions in balsamic vinegar and it is heavenly. Hope you enjoy as much as we did since we ate the whole squash with everything else. Making your own beef bacon is not difficult, it's just a matter of being prepared for the time the cure takes, then the smoke stage.

Overcrowding the pan will steam the squash, rather. It was so exciting, that I instagrammed it. We thought about making a galette in the wood fired oven today. You can cook Bacon Beef Butternut Squash using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bacon Beef Butternut Squash

1. Prepare 1 of Butternut Squash.
2. You need 1 lb of ground beef.
3. It's 3 small of onions.
4. It's 1 of stock celery.
5. Prepare 6 slice of nitrite free bacon.
6. It's 3 tsp of cinnamon.
7. It's 1 of himalayan sea salt and ground black pepper.
8. You need 1 dash of balsamic vinegar.

Spread squash and thyme sprigs in an even layer on a rimmed sheet pan. I wasn't raised eating squash in any form, so my younger self wanted to stay as far away from it as possible. I distinctly remember the first time I ever tried squash soup. I had just started serving at a fine dining restaurant in college and the manager insisted that we try every dish on the menu, so we were.

Bacon Beef Butternut Squash instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Cut butternut squash in half and scoop out stringy bits and seeds. Place squash in pyrex baking pan with 1" water and cook for an hour. (More or less depending on size of squash.).
3. Chop 2 onions and celery. Set aside 3rd onion for later..
4. Cook 6 slices of bacon in cast iron skillet. Remove and let cool before crumbling in separate bowl..
5. Cook beef in bacon fat, salt and pepper to taste. Put in bowl with bacon and mix..
6. Cook chopped onion and celery in skillet with bacon/beef fat. Place in bowl with bacon and beef..
7. Pull the butternut squash out and allow to cool. Scoop soft squash into the bowl with bacon, beef, onion, and celery. Mix and add cinnamon, salt and pepper. Scoop back into butternut squash shells. And allow to bake 20 minutes longer..
8. Slice remaining onion. Toss in skillet and cook until soft. Add a dash of balsamic vinegar and allow to caramelize..
9. Toss caramelized onions on top of stuffed squash and serve..

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