I have always been the “grab the box of stovetop stuffing” girl. I’d like to add that there is NOTHING wrong with Stovetop stuffing. It comes in a variety of flavors and with the crack of the box and some water, you have yourself a comforting pile of yum in just a few minutes. I used to amp up the box with some sausage, fresh herbs, onions and celery. I decided that it was time for me to graduate to creating my own, homemade stuffing recipe. I have to say, this was my absolute favorite thing of all the sides we enjoyed on Thanksgiving. I love the different sizes of bread cubes I used. I also used two different types of bread. A rustic garlic loaf and a rosemary sourdough loaf. Both provided amazing flavor with the other additions in this D to the LISH stuffing. Put this on your Thanksgiving tables this year and your guests will definitely be coming back for seconds!
Rustic Herby Sourdough Sausage Stuffing
10
servings20
minutes1
hourIngredients
1 – 1 1/2 lbs 1 – 1 1/2 Artisan Sourdough Bread
1 lb 1 Breakfast Sausage
2-3 cups 2-3 Chicken or Turkey Stock
2 2 Eggs
1/2 Cup 1/2 Butter + 2 Tbsp
2 2 Stalks Celery Sliced
1 1 Small Sweet Onion Diced
3-4 3-4 Cloves Minced Garlic
1 1 Bunch Scallions Thinly Sliced
2-4 Tbsp 2-4 Poultry Herbs finely minced(Sage, Rosemary & Thyme)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 250. Cube Sourdough bread and place on a sheet tray. Bake for 30 minutes until it begins to dry. You want your bread cubes dried for this stuffing to keep textural integrity
- Remove bread crumbs from oven and set oven temp to 375
- In a sauté pan, brown sausage until cooked through. Remove to plate and blot grease off with a paper towel. In the same pan keeping some of the sausage grease, add 2 Tbsp butter and the diced onion and celery. Sauté until it begins to soften. Add garlic and sauté until it becomes fragrant.
- Add bread cubes, sausage, onion, celery, minced herbs and sliced scallions together in a large bowl.
- In a measuring cup, add 1 cup of stock with your two eggs. Whisk to combine. Add to stuffing mixture and stir to coat. Continue to add stock 1 cup at a time until all bread cubes are moist with stock.
- Spray a 9X13 pan with nonstick cooking spray or coat with butter. Add stuffing to pan. Cube your stick of butter and place cubes of butter on top of your stuffing. Cover pan with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake another 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and DIVE IN!
