Sausage Stuffing Recipe
This classic Sausage Stuffing is packed with savory flavors from seasoned sausage, dried herbs, and bread cubes. It's the perfect recipe to absorb all that delicious turkey flavor as it cooks inside your bird and makes a terrific Thanksgiving side dish.
Serving8 servings
Ingredients
- 0.5 pound ground mild breakfast sausage
- 0.5 pound ground spicy Italian sausage
- ¾ cup melted, unsalted butter
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 8 cups bread, cubed (white or desired type), divided
- 1 Tablespoon poultry seasoning
- Black pepper, to taste
Instructions
Gather your ingredients:
- Prepare your ingredients by chopping the celery and onions and cubing the bread into smaller cubes.
Cook the sausage:
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the mild and spicy sausage. Cook the sausage until browned, for 6-7 minutes. Remove the sausage from the skillet and collect the sausage drippings in a small bowl. Add the melted butter to the sausage drippings so you have about 1 cup of the dripping/butter mixture.
- Pour the prepared butter mixture into the skillet and set it over medium-high heat.
Cook the veggies:
- Cook the celery and onions in a heated butter mixture for 4 minutes. Add thyme and cook until fragrant.
- Stir in half the bread cubes and remove from the heat.
Assemble:
- Place the remaining bread cubes in a large bowl.
- Add the celery, onions, and soaked bread cubes with any butter from the skillet to the cubes in the bowl.
- Add the cooked sausage on top, along with the poultry seasoning and black pepper, to taste.
- Stir well, making sure the bread cubes are soaked with the butter mixture.
- Stuff your turkey with the stuffing before baking (continue to bake turkey as directed).
Notes
- You can use plain white bread or cornbread for this recipe.
- Please note that this is stuffing that is intended for adding to your turkey before baking.
Nutrition
Calories: 985 kcal · Carbohydrates: 115 g · Protein: 34 g · Fat: 43 g · Saturated Fat: 18 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 7 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 13 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 87 mg · Sodium: 1493 mg · Potassium: 546 mg · Fiber: 10 g · Sugar: 15 g · Vitamin A: 654 IU · Vitamin C: 3 mg · Calcium: 323 mg · Iron: 10 mg