Using your butternut squash...

I am finally sitting down to enter a few bountiful recipes. Tonight I made stuffed butternut squash. It was pretty easy and quite good.

This is what was left. Cade only ate 1/2 of one.

1 pkg stove top stuffing prepared as directed (or 3 cups of homemade stuffing)
2 small - med butternut squash (BOUNTY)
4 sm chicken thighs cooked and cubed *optional
2 oz cheese (I used a smoked gouda)

Cut squash in half and scoop out seeds. Place cut side down in microwave steamer or 9 x 13 pan. Cook until soft. (8 minutes in the microwave or 30 - 40 in a 350 degree oven)

Let cool until you can handle it safely. Scoop out some of the inside of the squash, leaving at least a half inch of squash in the skin (if you scoop out too much it will collapse).

Mix together the prepared stuffing, cubed chicken and the squash that you scooped out. Spray a 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray and set the shells, cut side up, into the pan. Fill the squash shells with the stuffing mix. Use all of it and pile it in. Grate about 1/2 oz of cheese on top of each squash and bake about 20 - 25 minutes @ 350 degrees until cheese has browned and the top has crisped up.