Best Butternut Turkey Bake Recipes

BUTTERNUT TURKEY CASSEROLE

Steps:

• If you are starting with a fresh uncooked butternut squash, preheat oven to 425 degrees F and cut the squash in half the long way and remove seeds. Place cut side up on a foil lined pan and place a pat of butter into each cavity. Cover with parchment and foil and bake until fork tender, about 45-60 minutes.
• Cool, remove the flesh and mash. The squash can be made in advance or use leftovers from your Thanksgiving dinner.
• Cut the bread into one-inch cubes and bake for 5-10 minutes at 325 degrees F to dry out and toast, flipping half way through. Place in a large bowl once they are toasted. This step can be done in advance.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Heat the broth and pour over the bread and let sit.
• In a large saute pan, melt butter over medium heat and add onions, celery, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper and saute until the vegetables are tender, about five minutes.
• Add the cut up cooked turkey and heat and toss then add into the soaking bread cubes and toss.
• Stir in the beaten eggs and combine.
• Heat the butternut in the microwave to hot and mix into the mixture.
• Butter a 9x13x3-inch casserole dish and pour in the mixture.
• Spray a piece of parchment paper and place (spray-side down) over the casserole dish then top with foil and bake for 30 minutes.
• Uncover and sprinkle the top with both cheeses and broil for 3-5 minutes until browned and bubbly.
• Serve immediately.

KRISTIN'S TURKEY BUTTERNUT SQUASH CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch square baking dish.
• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir ground turkey until crumbly and browned, 5 to 10 minutes. Add butternut squash and onion to ground turkey; cook and stir until squash is slightly tender, 5 to 10 minutes. Drain any excess grease from skillet.
• Whisk milk, mozzarella cheese, butter, eggs, salt, and pepper together in a bowl; stir into turkey mixture. Transfer squash-turkey mixture to the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle crackers over squash-turkey mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cooked through and bubbling, 25 to 30 minutes.

ROASTED BUTTER HERB TURKEY

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine softened butter, poultry seasoning, garlic herb sauce mix, and crushed garlic. Use a fork to mix together until well combined. Cover and put in the refrigerator for 15 to 30 minutes, until firm but not hard.
• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
• Arrange celery, carrots, and half of the diced onions in the bottom of a roasting pan. Add chicken broth and set aside.
• Rinse the thawed turkey and pat dry. Use your finger to carefully loosen the skin around the entire bird. Take the butter mixture and cut into large pieces. Place the butter pieces under the skin of the entire turkey. Rub the remaining butter pieces on the outside of the skin and season with salt and pepper. Stuff the inside of turkey cavity with remaining onions, fresh herb poultry blend, and lemon slices. (Truss if necessary.) Insert the pop-up thermometer at an angle about 3-inches down from the neck cavity and 2-inches from the breast bone, in the thickest part of the breast.
• Place turkey on the bed of vegetables in roasting pan. Place in the oven and reduce temperature to 325 degrees F. Roast for 1 hour, then baste with pan juices every 20 minutes until thermometer pops up or until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thigh registers 180 degrees F, about 3 hours.

BUTTERNUT TURKEY BAKE

Steps:

• Cut squash in hjalf, discard seeds. Place cut side down in a 15 inches x 10 in x 1 in baking pan. Add 1/2 inch hot water. Bake, uncovered at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
• Drain water from pan, turn swuash cut side up. Bake 10 - 15 minutes longer or until tendr. Scoop out pulp, mash and set aside.
• In a large skillet, saute onion in buter until tender. Stir in croutons, salt, poultry seasoning and pepper. Cook 2-3 minutes longer or until croutons are toasted. Stir in squash, turkey and brorh, heat through.
• Transfer to a greased 1 1/2 quart baking dish. Bake , uncovered, at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake 5 - 10 minutes longer or until edges are bubbly and cheese is melted.