This Protein Stuffed Butternut Squash Recipe is just 277 calories and has over 23 grams of protein per serving!
The healthy recipe for stuffed butternut squash can be made with ground turkey, chicken, or beef… Any will work in this wonderful baked butternut squash recipe!
You can change the stuffing for butternut squash up each time you make this yummy recipe.
Start by making the stuffed butternut squash with ground beef one week, and try it with turkey the next week.
This Protein Stuffed Butternut Squash Recipe is just 277 calories and has over 23 grams of protein!
Protein Stuffed Butternut Squash Recipe
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make recipes fro stuffed butternut squash.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find low calorie tips and tricks for baking butternut squash, a nutrition label, and more.
To make this this stuffed butternut squash ground beef, turkey or chicken recipe easy, we’ve supplied you with the following helpful sections.
You can read through them for helpful tips and tricks… or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients for Roasted Stuffed Butternut Squash Recipes (shopping list!)
- How to Cook Butternut Squash Boats
- Protein Stuffed Butternut Squash Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Roasted Butternut Squash Healthy Recipes
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Up next, a shopping list for roasting butternut squash, plus low calorie tips and tricks!
Ingredients for Roasted Stuffed Butternut Squash Recipes
We used a few tips and tricks for low calorie cooking to make these butternut squash main dish recipes low calorie and healthy.
You can use these tips in all your favorite recipes for butternut squash!
Low Calorie Tips for Recipes with Butternut Squash:
- Olive oil spray… To save 100’s of calories and lot’s of fat in this butternut squash roasted recipe, we use olive oil spray instead of a pad of butter or heavy drizzle of olive oil.
- Lots of Herbs… Pack in the flavor with zero calorie herbs and spices! With sage, cumin and a light kick of chili powder, this ground beef stuffed butternut squash will taste amazing without adding any calories!
- Add back the Squash… You can skip cheese when you add the roasted butternut squash to the filling. It will help hold the stuffing together without adding calories!
Shopping List for Baked Stuffed Butternut Squash:
- Butternut squash
- Olive oil spray
- Lean ground turkey, chicken or beef (nutrition based off turkey)
- Ground cumin
- Sage
- Chili powder
- Salt and pepper
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this stuffed butternut squash in oven you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for butternut squash baked recipes can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make roasted butternut squash stuffed with meat…
How to Cook Butternut Squash Boats
Make this butternut squash recipes, dinner main course ahead of time for easy meal prep.
Meal Prep Tips for Butternut Squash Boats:
- Cook the butternut squash and the filling.
- Fill the butternut squash and then cover with foil or plastic wrap.
- Freeze in a gallon freezer bag, and reheat in the oven… Or store in the fridge and pop in the oven tomorrow night.
How to Make Butternut Squash Main Course Recipes:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with foil.
- Place the cut butternut squash halves on the prepared baking sheet.
- Spray the cut sides with olive oil, flip so the cut sides are facing down, and bake for 50-60 minutes until tender.
- Meanwhile, preheat a skillet over medium heat.
- Add in the ground meat and brown, then drain and add in the cumin, sage, chili powder, salt and pepper.
- Mix together, cook until the meat is cooked though, the turn off the heat.
- When the butternut squash halves are cooked, remove from the oven, and carefully (with oven mitts on) flip the squash halves over.
- Use a spoon to scoop out a well on the top of the squash (there is a well on the bottom half, just scoop out more so it continues to the top) and add the scooped out squash to the skillet with the browned meat.
- Mix the meat and the scooped out squash together, then scoop the filling into the butternut squash wells.
- Spray with olive oil, and bake (cut side up) for 10-15 minutes, until the tops are browned and the filing is hot.
- Cut the stuffed butternut squashes in half, and serve hot.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best stuffed butternut squash recipe…
Protein Stuffed Butternut Squash Recipe
This healthy recipe for stuffed butternut squash is packed full of flavor and protein… and it makes a great meal prep dinner (see above for tips).
Meant to be a main course, these stuffed butternut squash boats are great for dinner, and for small holiday gatherings.
Healthy Recipe for Stuffed Butternut Squash
Equipment
- Foil
Ingredients
- 1 butternut squash halved with the seeds removed
- Olive oil spray
- 1 pound lean ground turkey chicken or beef (nutrition based off turkey)
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon ground sage
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with foil.
- Place the cut butternut squash halves on the prepared baking sheet.
- Spray the cut sides with olive oil, flip so the cut sides are facing down, and bake for 50-60 minutes until tender.
- Meanwhile, preheat a skillet over medium heat.
- Add in the ground meat and brown, then drain and add in the cumin, sage, chili powder, salt and pepper.
- Mix together, cook until the meat is cooked though, the turn off the heat.
- When the butternut squash halves are cooked, remove from the oven, and carefully (with oven mitts on) flip the squash halves over.
- Use a spoon to scoop out a well on the top of the squash (there is a well on the bottom half, just scoop out more so it continues to the top) and add the scooped out squash to the skillet with the browned meat.
- Mix the meat and the scooped out squash together, then scoop the filling into the butternut squash wells.
- Spray with olive oil, and bake (cut side up) for 10-15 minutes, until the tops are browned and the filing is hot.
- Cut the stuffed butternut squashes in half, and serve hot.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Roasted Butternut Squash Healthy Recipes
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