5 recipes that prove how much you can do with Panko bread crumbs

Sausage and apple stuffed acorn squash

Ingredients:

• 3 acorn squash, top and bottom sliced off flat and halved
• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 pound ground sausage
• 1 small onion, diced
• 2 green apples, diced
• 2 sage leaves, thinly sliced
• 1 cup Panko bread crumbs
• 1 cup Parmesan cheese, divided

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Spoon seeds out of the acorn squash.
3. Brush olive oil inside of each squash and season with salt and pepper.
4. Bake for 40 minutes to an hour depending on the size of your squash until tender but still holding its shape.
5. Sauté sausage and drain.
6. Using the grease from the sausage, sauté your onions and apples until softened.
7. Add sage and 3/4 cup bread crumbs.
8. Add 3/4 cup Parmesan cheese.
9. Spoon mixture into cooked squash halves and sprinkle remaining cheese and Panko on top.
10. Bake for another 15 – 20 minutes.

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