How To Make Sausage, Cranberry, and Apple Stuffing
Complete your Thanksgiving with a tasty and fruity apple stuffing, loaded with sausages, tart cranberries, and juicy apples!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 10cupsday old bread,cubed, whole grain, or favorite bread
- 2tbspunsalted butter
- 1medium onion,diced
- 3celery stalks,thinly sliced
- ½tspsalt
- ½tspfreshly ground black pepper
- 1cupmushrooms,roughly chopped
- 1tspdried thyme leaves,or leaves from about 3 stalks fresh thyme
- 1tspdried sage,or about 2 tbsp chopped fresh sage
- 2tspdried parsley,or about 3 tbsp chopped fresh sage
- 1lbsweet Italian sausage,or spicy
- 2cupsapples,(about 2 medium apples), diced
- 2¼cupchicken broth,low-sodium
- ⅔cupdried cranberries
For Optional:
- fresh herbs,to garnish, optional
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
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Spread the bread cubes out on 2 large baking sheets and bake for 15 minutes until browned and crisp. Transfer to a large bowl.
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Place the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, celery, salt, and pepper.
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Sauté for about 4 minutes until vegetables begin to soften. Add the mushrooms, thyme, sage, and parsley, then continue cooking for another 3 minutes.
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Squeeze the sausage meat out of the casings into the skillet. Break up with a spoon, then add the apples.
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Cook for about 4 minutes, until the sausage meat is just about cooked through.
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Remove from heat and stir the sausage and apple mixture in with the toasted bread. Pour the broth on top, then the cranberries. Give everything a stir.
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If using to stuff a turkey, allow to cool completely before stuffing. If baking the stuffing separately, heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
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Grease a casserole dish, such as 11×7-inch or similar size, or spray with nonstick spray.
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Spoon the stuffing into the dish, then bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until lightly browned and crisp on top.
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Garnish with fresh herbs, serve warm, and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Cover the leftovers tightly and store in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Reheat in the microwave.
Nutrition
- Calories: 325.10kcal
- Fat: 10.39g
- Saturated Fat: 4.33g
- Trans Fat: 0.13g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.54g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.40g
- Carbohydrates: 42.46g
- Fiber: 4.03g
- Sugar: 14.41g
- Protein: 16.98g
- Cholesterol: 26.67mg
- Sodium: 689.75mg
- Calcium: 104.99mg
- Potassium: 411.58mg
- Iron: 3.13mg
- Vitamin A: 40.40µg
- Vitamin C: 6.91mg
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