Best Paleo Stuffing (Healthy, Gluten-Free, Grain Free)
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The best paleo stuffing recipe! Perfect for Thanksgiving or as a healthy grain-free side dish for roast chicken. Made with simple ingredients, you’ll be shocked at how much it tastes like “real stuffing”… but better!
No beating around the bush: this is the best paleo stuffing recipe.
I’m a fool for stuffing. Like, if you didn’t include stuffing on your Thanksgiving table, I’d just walk out without a word, dramatically tipping my chair over for effect. I’m really into it. Apparently.
The problem with being mostly paleo is that um, bread isn’t allowed? It’s kind of one of those main tenants of eating primal foods that… yeah, no white bread. No whole wheat bread. No cornbread. No bread. And normally it doesn’t bother me, which is also a little weird? But stuffing… different story.
What Makes This Recipe So Good
- It tastes surprisingly like “real” stuffing but is made with all healthy ingredients, like veggies and eggs.
- This healthy stuffing recipe is perfect with a roast chicken or turkey, making it a great side dish for both weeknight dinners and Thanksgiving.
- The ingredients are super versatile: you can swap out what you like and have.
Chef’s Tips
- Make sure you sauté your veggies long enough for them to be really softened. This helps everything meld together beautifully in this healthy paleo stuffing recipe, just like a traditional dressing!
- Use the dried herbs you prefer or make your own poultry seasoning.
- If you’re strictly paleo, make sure you get dried cranberries that are sweetened with juice, not sugar.
- This healthy stuffing recipe reheats well, so you can make it ahead.
- You can make this entire paleo stuffing recipe in a large oven-proof skillet, or you can bake it in a casserole dish.
Try These Recipe Variations
- Use chopped dates in place of the dried cranberries, or add 1/4 cup chopped dates to the whole thing!
- Increase the amount of celery by 1 cup and leave out the mushrooms, if you don’t like fungi.
Other Recipes You’ll Love
- Whole30 Green Bean Casserole
- Perfect Whole30 Turkey Breast and Gravy
- Whole30 Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes with Garlic and Herbs
- Whole30 Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecans
- Whole30 Crockpot Mashed Potatoes
Best Paleo Stuffing (Gluten-Free, Grain-Free)
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons ghee or avocado oil or refined coconut oil
- 3 cups onion diced
- 2 cups celery diced
- 1 cup mushrooms diced
- 1 cup apple cored and diced
- ¼ cup dried cranberries or dates, chopped
- ¼ cup flat-leaf parsley chopped
- 4 teaspoons poultry seasoning
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 cups almond flour
- 3 large eggs whisked
Equipment
- Cast iron skillet (or other oven safe skillet)
- 9×9 baking dish (if not using oven-safe skillet)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º Fahrenheit. Heat ghee or oil in a large cast-iron or oven-safe skillet over medium heat.
- Add onion, celery, apple, mushrooms, cranberries or dates, parsley, poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper. Sauté until ingredients are very soft, about 7 minutes.
- Remove skillet from heat. Keep ingredients in oven-safe skillet, or, alternately, transfer ingredients to 9×9" baking dish.
- Stir almond flour in to other ingredients until well mixed. Add the whisked eggs and stir well. Place skillet (or baking dish) in preheated oven and bake 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until stuffing is browned on top. Serve warm.
Notes
- If you don’t have a cast-iron skillet, grease a medium-size baking dish before sautéing ingredients (a 9×9″ works well). After eggs have been added and the mixture is well-stirred, transfer mixture to baking dish. Continue baking as directed.
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Chelsea Goldkamp says
Super psyched to have found such a lovely replacement for the best Thanksgiving side ever! I want to double this for our ginormous extended fam. Will bake time and temp stay the same or should it be increased? Thanks!
Crystal says
I made this last year for a Whole30 Thanksgiving and was blown away! The flavor and texture were outstanding! I was beyond skeptic making it, but boy, was I surprised! I liked it so much, I’m making it again this year for my non-Whole30 Thanksgiving! Bravo!
Jordyn says
What could you use instead of eggs? I’m allergic!
Cheryl Malik says
You could try a flax egg!
Breeta Garland says
I’m so excited to try this for Thanksgiving!! My kids and I are GF and usually get a box stuffing mix but this looks so much better!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
kitchenhag says
Fantastic!
Loved it the way it is but it’s also good with a little broth of your choice or even apple juice added and of course next day with leftovers.
Thank you for this great recipe!
Amy says
Can you elaborate on what is in the poultry seasoning please?!
Savannah | 40 Aprons Team says
It’s usually made with dried herbs such as sage, black pepper, marjoram, thyme, rosemary, etc.
Pam says
Are you familiar with crockpot dressing? Could this be recipe be modified to be made in crockpot? I’ve always preferred a moist dressing.
Tina Marie says
Hello Cheryl,
This is yummy. My question is can you stuff and cook it in the bird instead of the oven directly?
Belinda says
This recipe has a wonderful flavor and my family really liked the flavor, but it was dry. Is this supposed to be dry? What can I do to fix this.
Nicole says
Do you think I could use Cassava flour in place of Almonds, or maybe a mix of the two (half and half?). Cassava is more like a fine flour as opposed to a dense almond flour but just need to reduce it a little as almond isn’t ideal for me. 🙂
Savannah | 40 Aprons Team says
Cassava should work!