Makes: 6 | Prep Time: 60 min. | Cook Time: 60 min.
Ingredients
- 10 sugar Pumpkin , about 5 to 6 inches round, or 10 small acorn squash
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 Spanish onion, sliced
- 2 to 3 cups vegetable broth
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 2 cups toasted almonds, finely chopped
- 25 5x5-inch sheets fresh lasagna
- 1 cup Amaretti cookies, ground
- 2 cups apple cider
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup mascarpone
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 + 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/8 + 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Cut tops off pumpkins and set aside.
- Scrape out seeds and discard.Place pumpkins on a baking sheet, and roast them until tender, about 30 minutes.
- Remove them from oven, scrape out all flesh from 4 pumpkins and transfer flesh to a bowl. Discard shells.
- Remove most of flesh from remaining 6 pumpkins, and transfer to a bowl, reserving shells for further baking.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat, and when it is hot, add 1 tablespoon butter.
- Add onion, and saute it for 2 minutes.
- Add brown sugar, and cook for 2 minutes more, stirring occasionally.
- Add pumpkin flesh, and stir it well. Add broth, and bring mixture to a boil.
- Reduce heat to medium, and cook until pumpkin starts to fall apart, for about 10 to 12 minutes.
- Add 1/2 cup almonds, transfer to a blender or food processor and puree.Add remaining 3 tablespoons of butter, salt and pepper.
- Return mixture to skillet, and reheat it.Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat, add lasagna sheets and cook them until al dente, for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Remove lasagna from heat, and drain. Place sheets in skillet with pumpkin sauce, and toss. Using tongs, remove sheets, and place them in bottom of shells.
- Spoon sauce over lasagna, and sprinkle one-quarter of remaining almonds and one-quarter of Amaretti, Parmesan cheese and mascarpone over top.
- Repeat until pumpkins are filled, or all ingredients are used up, with a final layer of almonds, Amaretti, Parmesan cheese and mascarpone.Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Meanwhile, place cider and maple syrup in saucepan, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium, and cook until mixture has reduced to one-third and has a sticky, syrupy consistency, about 15 minutes. Add butter, salt and pepper, and set aside. Drizzle cider-maple syrup sauce over individual pumpkins, and serve.

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