This Leftover Stuffing Gluten Free Stuffed Butternut Squash recipe is a great tasty way to use up those leftovers. Add leftover turkey, too, and make this a delicious meal!
If your refrigerator looks like mine the day after Thanksgiving, you are looking at many leftovers. Leftovers are one of my family’s favorite parts of Thanksgiving. There are some fun ways to use the leftovers, but we love stuffing them into roasted winter squash!
Every year, we have so many leftovers after Thanksgiving. Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy…but NEVER stuffing. Gluten free stuffing goes fast in this house! This year, I made a triple batch, which was more than enough! Try my homemade Gluten Free Stuffing recipe in this recipe! Super yum!!
This is sort of what happened with this recipe. It all started with a beautiful butternut squash from our local farmer’s market. I had wanted to tie this butternut squash with my leftovers.
I have a lot of fun gluten free winter squash recipes for even more recipe inspiration!
If you haven’t read all about my local farmer’s market in other posts, you can read more about it in this recipe for ground pork lettuce wraps.
Recipe Step-By-Step Directions:
This leftover Thanksgiving stuffing recipe is so easy to make! Preheat the oven to 375º F.
Step 1: I sliced the butternut squash in half. Scoop out the seeds and roast them partway. This gives you nice cavities to stuff with your leftovers!
Ways to Cook Butternut Squash:
- In this recipe, I roasted the butternut squash in my oven for 20 minutes before stuffing them. This gives them time to soften and caramelize without burning any stuffing.
- If you are in a hurry, you can microwave the butternut squash to get it ready to stuff quickly. Place the de-seeded butternut squash halves face down in a microwave-safe dish. Cook for 8-10 minutes on high, depending on your butternut squash size.
Step 3: Mix up your stuffing and leftovers mixture in a large
Step 4: Bake for an additional 20-25 minutes. If you notice the stuffing getting too brown, place a piece of aluminum foil over the stuffing.
Serve hot.
Recipe FAQ:
To keep this recipe dairy-free, use Daiya, VioLife or another cheese substitute!
More Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes:
- If you have leftover mashed potatoes, try this Potato Bacon Rose Mashed Potato Pie a try!!
- Dice up leftover turkey and use it in place of the chicken in this Chicken Mushroom and Rice Soup recipe.
- Chopped leftover turkey is great in a big Chopped Salad! You can use extra Gluten-Free Stuffing Cubes for croutons!
What will you toss your leftover stuffing into?
More Gluten Free Thanksgiving Recipes:
Stuffed Butternut Squash
Ingredients
- 1 butternut squash roasted
- ½ cup gluten free stuffing
- 4 mushrooms sliced
- ½ cup leftover turkey chopped
- 2 tablespoons onion diced
- ¼ cup pecans optional
- ¼ cup diced persimmon
Optional:
- ⅓ cup cheddar cheese You can also use parmesan
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375º F.
- Slice a butternut squash in half lengthwise and remove the seeds.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes to partially cook. (I used my toaster oven so it took about 15 minutes. It may take longer in a larger oven.)
- In a large bowl, add all stuffing ingredients.
- Remove squash from oven and fill holes with stuffing.
- Bake another 15 minutes until vegetables cook and cheese melts.
- Enjoy!
SPECIAL NOTE
Please know that every gluten free flour blend has a different starch to grain ratio. If you use a blend I didn’t test, you may need to adjust your moisture levels in your baked goods.
Nutrition
Nutrition Disclaimer
Nutritional information is an estimate provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the actual nutritional information with the products and brands you are using with your preferred nutritional calculator.
This post was updated from an old November 2019 post with more recipe details.
Your recipe involves two of my favorite things – butternut squash and stuffing! Such a brilliant idea to repurpose leftovers! I’ll definitely be making some.
Thank you so much Jereann. Have a lovely Thanksgiving!
The struggle is real with all of the leftovers! What a great recipe idea!
Thank you Sharon 🙂
These may be intended to be made for leftovers, but I could see it on the Thanksgiving table as well. This is a fun way to present leftovers.
That is a great idea. Thank you 🙂
I don’t eat bacon, but those bacon rose mashed potatoes are just beautiful!
Thank you so much Nicole
Looks delicious! I’m always looking for ways to use Thanksgiving leftovers.
This is a great way to use up the leftovers. I love stuffing things. It makes the leftovers look like a brand new meal.
Thank you so much Amanda 🙂
We also have to make triple batches of stuffing! What a great way to repurpose leftovers and get some extra veggies.
Thank you Kortney, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving.
That’s such a good idea. I might have to make a special stuffing batch just for this recipe!
Thank you so much Kelly 🙂
I love using veggies as boats!
Exactly Brianna 🙂
Interesting use of leftovers. Had to pay attention to the picture as they looked like lamb chops from far (yes, I need to change my glasses 😉
That is too funny Mike. Glad you saw they aren’t lamb chops, though that would be delicious as well.
I love what you did with your leftovers! The squash sure makes a delicious bowl doesn’t it?!!
You are so sweet. Thank you Sandra 🙂
This looks fab, and I love using the squash to be the main ingredient to yummy leftovers. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Thank you Patricia. I hope your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well 🙂
This is great. I actually didn’t cook butternut squash for Thanksgiving this year, so this would be a great way to work it in afterwards!
The stuffing and butternut squash flavors really work well together. I hope you had a great holiday Christine!
Stuffing butternut squash with leftover Thanksgiving stuffing? Brilliant and delish!
Thank you Linda 🙂
I love the stuffing ingredients you added to this. It’s going on my list for when I can get a squash! Thanks for the recipe, looks absolutely delicious!
Thank you so much 🙂
Great idea, Sandi! And your stuffed squash looks absolutely delicious! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family!
xo,
Shirley
Thank you Shirley 🙂 I hope you had a wonderful time with your family. I hope you can avoid the craziness of black Friday today.
Sandi, we did have a wonderful Thanksgiving–thank you! We will barely be venturing out today as we want nothing to do with black Friday! I hope you can stay at a safe, sane distance away as well. 😉
Agreed about Black Friday. My husband ordered the few techie things he wanted online. Our only venturing out is tomorrow because we like to support Shop Local Saturday, a local tradition after Black Friday. Our little Campbell downtown area is all little businesses (no chains) and we do a lot of our shopping there to help support them. There is everything from gourmet chocolates, locally made olive oils, locally roasted coffees to toys and so much more.
Sandi, we have a wonderful downtown area in “our” city, Fredericksburg, too, and Small Business Saturday is what tomorrow is being promoted as for them. However, my aunt and uncle’s 50th wedding celebration is being held tomorrow afternoon an hour away so we won’t get to support our local businesses tomorrow, but we’ll catch up in the next week. 😉 Have fun tomorrow!