Joanies Sausage Bread Stuffing Food

OLD-FASHIONED BREAD STUFFING WITH SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º. Spread bread cubes on two large baking sheets and toast for 30 minutes, stirring and rotating pans, until lightly browned and crisp. Transfer to very large bowl when done.
• Meanwhile, in large skillet, melt 1 stick of butter. Pour half the melted butter in a bowl and reserve for later, to brush the top of the stuffing. To the pan with remaining melted butter, add celery, carrots and onion, a sprinkle of salt, and cook and stir over medium-high heat until softened and starting to brown, about 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer vegetables to bowl. Add sausage to skillet in chunks, and cook, breaking it up with wooden spoon, until cooked through and lightly browned, about 6 minutes.
• Return vegetable mixture to the skillet and add the sage and thyme, a little salt and pepper, and cook for 1 minute. Add 1 cup of stock, cook and stir up any browned bits, until stock is reduced and cooked down by half, about 5 minutes.
• Transfer sausage mixture to bowl with the toasted bread cubes. Add remaining 2 to 2½ cups of stock and toss well until bread cubes are evenly moistened. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Spread stuffing into large, buttered baking dish (about 3½ quart size) and brush with the reserved melted butter.
• Bake in center of oven until heated through and nicely browned, about 1 hour, rotating casserole halfway through. Let stuffing rest 10 minutes before serving.

SAUSAGE AND HERB STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
• Place the bread cubes in a single layer on a sheet pan and bake for 7 minutes. Raise the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Remove the bread cubes to a very large bowl.
• Meanwhile, in a large saute pan, melt the butter and add the onions, celery, apples, parsley, salt and pepper. Saute over medium heat for 10 minutes, until the vegetables are softened. Add to the bread cubes.
• In the same saute pan, cook the sausage over medium heat for about 10 minutes, until browned and cooked through, breaking up the sausage with a fork while cooking. Add to the bread cubes and vegetables.
• Add the chicken stock and cranberries to the mixture, mix well, and pour into a 9 by 12-inch baking dish. Bake for 30 minutes, until browned on top and hot in the middle. Serve warm.

SAUSAGE AND CORNBREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly mist an 8-inch square baking dish with cooking spray.
• Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat; add the onion, garlic and sausage. Cook, breaking up the sausage with a spoon, until the onion is tender, about 10 minutes. Add the celery and fennel; cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl.
• Toss the vegetable mixture with the pear, herbs, reserved fennel fronds, walnuts and cornbread; season with salt and pepper. Gently toss the stuffing mixture with 1/2 cup broth to moisten (adding more to moisten if needed); transfer to the prepared baking dish. Lightly mist a piece of foil large enough to cover the dish. Pour 1/2 cup broth over the stuffing and cover with the foil.
• Bake for 30 minutes. Uncover the stuffing and bake until golden around edges, about 30 minutes more.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Lightly mist an 8 by 8-inch baking pan with cooking spray. In a medium bowl, stir together the egg white, water and buttermilk; stir in the muffin mix and wheat germ until incorporated. Pour into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center tests clean, 25 to 30 minutes.

STUFFED ITALIAN SAUSAGE BREAD

Steps:

• For filling sauté sausage, veggies and seasonings until sausage is no longer pink and liquid has evaporated from pan.
• Add tomatoes and 1/2 cup of pizza sauce.
• Roll out bread dough to a large rectangle (stopping once in awhile to let dough rest).
• Spread filling up to 1 inch from sides of dough. Top with cheeses. Roll to a log. Seal ends (brushing water and pinching).
• Place log on cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray.
• Let rest 30 to 45 minutes.
• Bake in 350°F oven for 30 to 40 minutes (until loaf is golden brown).
• Cool at least 30 minutes before slicing.
• Heat left over sauce for dipping before serving.

TEIXEIRA'S CHOURICO BREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Open the bread bags and leave out for 48 hours. You can skip this step if you don't have the time and instead lightly toast both loaves to dry them.
• Tear the bread into small (nickle to quarter sized) chunks and set aside in a large baking pan. The disposable foil 18" x 13.25" pans w/ cover work well for this.
• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grind the chourico, onion in a food processor or finely chop it by hand. Do not liquefy!
• Melt butter in large skillet over low heat.
• Add chourico, onion, salt and seasoning to butter and saute.
• Add milk to chourico mixture.
• Pour the entire mixture over the bread in baking pan. Combine thoroughly. Start by tossing the mixture and as soon as the butter/sausage cools to a workable temperature combine by hand. The bread should be entirely coated with no dry spots.
• Spread the mixture evenly around the pan and bake uncovered for 25-30 minutes. The stuffing should start to brown on the top.

SAUSAGE BREAD DRESSING

Steps:

• Sautee Butter, celery, and Onion.
• Fry sausage until done and drain off fat.
• Cook seasoning mix from stove top stuffing as directed on box.
• Empty bread crumbs from stuffing mix in large bowl.
• Add to bread crumbs, cooked sausage, sauteed onions and celery.
• Stir in Seasoning mix until well mixed, but not mushy.
• Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees or stuff in turkey as desired.

BREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Cook and stir onion and celery in butter in 10 to 12 inch skillet until onion is tender. Stir in about 1/3 of the bread cubes. Turn into a deep bowl. Add remaining ingredients; toss. Stuff turkey just before roasting. 9 cups stuffing.
• STUFFING BALLS: Shape stuffing by 1/2 cupfuls into balls; place in greased baking dish. Cover and cook in 325 degree F oven 30 minutes. Uncover and cook 15 minutes longer. 10 Stuffing Balls.
• NOTE: To make Corn Bread Stuffing, you can substitute corn bread cubes for the soft bread cubes.
• Tip for freezing for Thanksgiving/Christmas:.
• NOTE: The unbaked stuffing mixture will freeze great in containers or freezer bags to serve later. To reheat: Thaw and bake it in a greased dish, (rather than in the bird)at 350°F until golden brown on top (about 30 minutes covered, then uncover and bake for 15 minutes more). Don't overbake!

BASIC YANKEE BREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Place pork sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain and set aside.
• Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Place the celery and onions in the saucepan, and slowly cook and stir until tender.
• Mix together the sausage, celery, onions, bread, sage, salt and pepper in a large bowl.
• Pour the eggs and chicken broth into the mixture. Use more broth if needed. The stuffing should be moist, not mushy.
• Press the mixture into the baking dish. Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until the top is brown and crisp.

ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE AND CORN BREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add all sausages and cook until brown and cooked through, breaking up bulk sausage with back of fork, about 5 minutes.
• Add onions, celery and red bell peppers.
• Cover and cook until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally, about 12 minutes.
• Stir in green onions, thyme, hot pepper sauce and sage.
• Transfer sausage mixture to large bowl. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
• Stir stuffing mix into sausage mixture. Season with salt and pepper.
• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Generously butter 13x9x2-inch glass or ceramic baking dish.
• Add enough broth to stuffing to moisten (about 3/4 cup to 1 1/2 cups.)
• Transfer stuffing to prepared dish.
• Cover with buttered foil, buttered side down.
• Bake until heated through, about 30 minutes.
• Uncover and bake until top is crisp and golden, about 20 minutes longer.

JOANIE'S SAUSAGE BREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• In a large skillet over medium heat, melt the butter.
• Add the sausage, onion, celery, garlic, sage, thyme, celery seeds, nutmeg, cloves, and salt.
• Saute, until the sausage is no longer pink and onion is soft, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Do not drain.
• Remove from the heat.
• In a large bowl, toss the sauteed vegetables with the bread cubes and cranberries/cherries.
• Season with pepper.
• Pour it over the stuffing, along with the broth, and toss to coat.
• The stuffing should just barely hold together when mounded on a spoon.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Stuff the bird, or, if baking some or all of the stuffing in a casserole.
• Bake it covered until heated through, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• For a crunchy top, uncover it for the last 15 minutes of baking.
• Makes 14 cups.
• Serving size= 1 cup.