Thanksgiving Sausage Stuffing Recipe with Cranberries
Servings 12 servings
This homemade Thanksgiving sausage stuffing is an easy and healthy side dish for your holiday meal! Made with Italian sausage, vegetables, apples, and cranberries, it's a delicious twist on a classic dish. Pair this bread and sausage stuffing with turkey and all your favourite sides for a crowd-pleasing Thanksgiving meal!
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 8 cups cubed sourdough bread
- 1 pound ground Italian sausage (or remove it from casing)
- 1 medium yellow onion diced
- 1 cup thinly sliced celery
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 medium apple
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (or pecans)
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh sage
- 1 cup reduced sodium chicken broth (or more to taste)
- 1 egg beaten
- 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13x9 inch baking dish.
- In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium high heat. Add the bread cubes and stir to coat. Cook and stir until the bread cubes are lightly toasted and crispy, about 5-8 minutes. Set bread cubes aside in a large bowl.
- In the same skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink, stirring to break up the pieces, about 5-6 minutes. Set sausage aside in the bowl with the cubed bread. Drain most of the fat from the pan.
- Add onion, celery, and garlic to the same pan. Cook and stir until vegetables are tender, about 3-4 minutes.
- Add sauteed vegetables, diced apple, walnuts, dried cranberries, and fresh herbs to the bread and sausage and toss to combine. Add chicken broth, beaten egg and poultry seasoning and mix well.
- Add the sausage, vegetable and bread mixture to the greased baking dish. Bake dressing, covered, for 30 minutes. Uncover and continue baking until hot and bread is slightly crispy, 15 to 25 minutes.
Notes
- For the best stuffing recipe, use older dry bread, or stale bread, as opposed to fresh bread. Dry bread has a greater ability to soak up the broth and flavour while it bakes.
- Be sure to continue stirring the bread while cooking it to prevent it from burning.
- You can use ground sausage in any flavour or purchase whole sausage and remove from the casing. We like to use spicy Italian sausage.
- Adapt the quantity of broth used according to your personal taste preference. For a more moist stuffing, increase the amount of broth.
- For the nuts, you can use pecans, walnuts or a mixture of both.
Nutrition
Calories: 300kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 11gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 5gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 104mgSodium: 495mgPotassium: 234mgFiber: 2gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 167IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 49mgIron: 2mg
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