Pork Sage Apple Stuffing Food

HEALTHIER PORK, SAGE AND APPLE STUFFING

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas 6. Put 150g of the sourdough bread into a food processor and whizz into breadcrumbs, then scatter over a large baking tray. Tear the remaining bread into crouton-size chunks and add to the breadcrumbs on the tray. Bake for 5-7 minutes until crisp, then set aside. When cool, pick out the larger croutons and set aside.
• Heat the oil in a medium frying pan over a medium-high heat, then fry the red onions and apples for 15 minutes or until soft and golden. Stir in the garlic and fry for another minute, then remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
• Put the cooled onions, apples and garlic in a medium mixing bowl with the toasted breadcrumbs (not the reserved croutons) and the remaining ingredients, along with a good pinch of salt and pepper. Mix with your hands until everything is well combined.
• Transfer the mixture to the roasting dish, scatter with the reserved croutons and press the extra sage leaves and thyme sprigs into the top. Brush with a little olive oil, then bake for 25-30 minutes until golden.

PORK, SAGE & APPLE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180ºC (fan assisted 200ºC non fan)
• Add all of the ingredients apart from the butter into an oven proof dish (approximately 23 x 23cm). Stir until completely combined
• Smooth out the top of the stuffing and add chunks of butter to the top
• Cook for 50 minutes until brown on top

PORK CHOPS WITH APPLE-SAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• Spray 8-inch square (2-quart) glass baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Melt butter in large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and celery; cook 3 to 4 minutes or until crisp-tender, stirring occasionally.
• Add apple, raisins and apple juice; cook 2 to 3 minutes or until mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat; stir in stuffing mix. Spread mixture in sprayed baking dish. Top with pork chops. Cover with foil; refrigerate at least 8 hours or overnight.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Bake covered for 30 minutes.
• Uncover baking dish; brush pork chops with jelly. Bake uncovered an additional 15 to 20 minutes or until pork chops are thoroughly heated.

PORK CHOPS STUFFED WITH APPLES AND SAGE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and next 3 ingredients, Sauté 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender and liquid evaporates.
• Remove from heat. Add stuffing mix and broth; stir until liquid is absorbed. Stir in sage, 2 tablespoons chopped parsley, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, and ground red pepper. Let stand 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375°F Trim excess fat from each pork chop, and cut a slit in 1 side of each chop to form a pocket. Spoon stuffing mixture evenly into each pocket.
• Combine remaining 4 tablespoons parsley, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Rub both sides of stuffed pork chops evenly with 2 tablespoons oil, and spread parsley mixture evenly over chops.
• Cook chops in remaining 2 tablespoons hot oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, in batches, 2 minutes on each side or until browned.
• Place on a lightly greased rack in a broiler pan. Add 1 cup water to bottom of broiler pan. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

APPLE SAGE CORNBREAD-STUFFED PORK CHOPS FOR TWO

Steps:

• Slice into the pork chops horizontally, but not all the way through. (You're essentially butterflying the pork chops and giving them a little pouch.) Set aside.
• In a large skillet over medium-high heat, heat up 1 tablespoon olive oil. Add the garlic and onion and saute until fragrant and softened, about 3 minutes. Add the apple, carrots and celery and cook until softened, 7 to 10 minutes.
• Add in the cornbread, chicken broth and sage leaves, and stir to incorporate. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Remove the skillet from the heat and let the filling cool for 10 minutes.
• Carefully spoon the filling into the pork chops. If they become full and you can no longer stuff anymore, that's ok-save the filling to eat on the side. Use toothpicks to secure the chops shut. If the toothpicks poke out, use scissors to trim them flush to the pork chops.
• In the same skillet you used earlier, heat up the remaining tablespoon olive oil. Sear the pork chops, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Turn the heat down to medium and continue cooking, flipping occasionally, until the pork chops have cooked through completely, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve warm with the additional cornbread stuffing!

SAGE, SAUSAGE AND APPLE DRESSING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Put the stuffing cubes in a large bowl and set aside. Butter a 3-quart casserole dish.
• Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the sausage and break it up with a wooden spoon. Cook until it loses most of its pink color, but not so much that it's dry, about 5 minutes. Add the sausage and pan drippings to the stuffing cubes. Melt the remaining butter in the pan. Add the onion, apple, celery, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cook until the vegetables get soft, about 5 minutes. Add the broth and parsley and bring to a boil.
• Pour the vegetable mixture over the stuffing cubes and toss until evenly moistened. Mix in the walnuts and eggs. Loosely pack the dressing in the prepared pan and cook uncovered until the top forms a crust, about 40 minutes. Drizzle about 2 tablespoons of turkey pan drippings or melted butter over the top. Cook until the top is crisp and golden, about 20 minutes more.

ROAST PORK WITH SAGE & DOUBLE ONION STUFFING, BAKED APPLES & ROASTIES

Steps:

• If you have time, season the pork skin the day before with salt, then put in the fridge, uncovered. If you want to get ahead, tip the potatoes into a large pan of cold, salted water, bring to the boil and simmer gently for about 8-10 mins until the potatoes are cooked all the way through but not falling apart. Gently drain the potatoes in a colander, but don't shake them or ruffle them up - just leave them to drain and cool. Put them in the fridge, uncovered, until ready to roast.
• To make the stuffing, heat the butter in a saucepan and cook the onion for 10 mins until soft and golden. Tip the onions into a bowl with the all the other ingredients and season with lots of black pepper. Scrunch everything together with your hands and chill until needed.
• To stuff the pork, get a long-bladed knife like a carving knife and create a large pocket between the eye of the meat and the bones. Turn the blade of the knife to open up the cavity. You might need to go in at both ends. Use your fingers to push in as much of the stuffing as you possibly can, pushing it right down into the cavity.
• Heat the oven to 240C/220C fan/gas 9. If you haven't already parboiled the potatoes, do so now (see step 1). Sit the pork in a shallow roasting tin (season if you haven't done it the day before), drizzle the skin liberally with sunflower oil and put it in the oven for 20 mins. Lower the heat to 200C/180C/gas 6 and continue to roast the pork for 1 hr, basting the skin occasionally with the fat from the tin. Remove the tin from the oven and you should have a nice layer of fat in the bottom. Baste the pork again, then carefully pour the fat into another roasting tin and add the potatoes. Use a spatula to turn them in the fat so they are completely coated and put back in the oven for 40 mins, by which time the pork skin should have crackled and the potatoes begun to turn golden. Transfer the pork to a board, uncovered, and leave to rest for 20 mins.
• While the pork is resting, turn the potatoes, then score a line around each apple and sit them in the sticky pork tin. Dot them with half the butter and roast for 20 mins until they are soft. By then, the potatoes should be golden too.
• Heat the remaining butter in a pan until sizzling and fry the sage leaves, turning, until crisp, then transfer to a piece of kitchen paper to drain. To serve, arrange the potatoes and apples around the pork and scatter with the crispy sage leaves. Carve the pork into chops.

PORK ROAST WITH SAUSAGE-APPLE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Melt butter and add onions, celery and apples.
• Cook until soft.
• Add crumbs, then add ground pork, sausage, and seasonings; mix thoroughly.
• Salt and pepper crown roast generously.
• Rub with a little sage.
• Fill center of crown roast with stuffing, mounding center slightly.
• Cover with foil and wrap bone ends with additional foil.
• Roast in hot oven for 3 hours or until meat thermometer reads 175 degrees.
• About 30 minutes before roast is done, remove foil from stuffing.
• Transfer roast to a large heated platter and remove foil.
• Add frills to each little ‘leg’ if desired, and rest meat about 10 minutes before carving.
• Decorate roast on platter with a round of small potatoes, large mushrooms, or cooked red cabbage.

APPLE SAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• In a large pan, melt butter on med-high heat.
• Saute onion, celery, garlic and apple.
• Add sage, pinch of nutmeg and the bread cubes.
• Reduce heat to medium.
• Add stock and fresh herbs.
• Season and taste.
• Remove from heat; place in an oven-proof roasting pan.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.

APPLE, SAGE, AND BERRIES STUFFING

Steps:

• Note: If you can't find sage marinated pork, buy ground pork, add about 1 tablesp of sage, and mix together well. Let sit overnight, if possible. If not, let it sit for awhile.
• Preheat oven to 450. Preheat large saute pan on medium heat, then crumble sausage into pan (wash hands),.
• Stir in onions, pepper, celery, and the berry medley. Cook 5-7 minutes, stirring often until browned and vegetables are tender.
• Stir flour into sausage mixture and cook 2 minutes, stirring often, until flour is hot and well blended into mixture.
• Stir in apple, broth, and stuffing mix until well blended.
• Coat a 2-quart baking dish with cooking spray. Add stuffing mixture.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden.
• Let stand 5 minutes before serving.