Ritz Cracker Stuffing Recipes

Steps:

• Saute onion, celery, and mushrooms in a few Tbsp. vegetable oil or cooking spray in a large non-stick skillet.
• Lightly break up crackers in their packs, then open and place in a large bowl. Add can of broth and seasonings, mix well. Saute cracker mixture with vegetables until lightly browned about 5 minutes, stirring as you go.
• Stuff in 12 lb. turkey like you would for bread stuffing or heat in a casserole to serve on the side.

Steps:

• With crackers still in their sleeves, crush up with your hands (easier to crush this way, and it keeps your hands cleaner). Place crushed crackers in large bowl.
• In a frying pan, saute the butter and onion until the onion are tender, about 5 minutes. Chop celery into small pieces and add to the crackers. Add cooked onions and butter to the crackers; mix well.
• Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well. Add milk a little at a time (you might not use all of the milk), until the cracker mix is moistened.
• Cracker mix should form a ball which you can hold in your hand. Use to stuff a 12-pound turkey. When stuffing a turkey this does not expand, so you want to pack it in tight. When the turkey is ready, you pull out the stuffing in one big chunk and slice it. Great on a turkey sandwich the next day!

Steps:

• Brown onions in oil or chicken fat until very brown; drain off grease.
• Add onions and celery to the cracker bits in a large bowl; tossing to mix.
• Add eggs to mixture and stir.
• Put the stuffing into a souffle dish.
• Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
• Baste often with turkey drippings if you are making a turkey or use chicken stock.

Steps:

• In a well greased baking pan, add the milk and lemon juice. Place the fish on top of the milk.
• On a large frying pan, melt butter, add olive oil and onions, saute until onions are translucid. Turn off heat. Add remaining ingredients. Spoon over fish. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Serve while hot.

Steps:

• Saute' onions in oil till transparent.
• Add carrots and apples and cook till the are softened.
• Add remaining ingredients.
• Mix together and taste for seasoning.
• If too dry you can add a bit of water.
• Stuff turkey loosely.
• Any leftover stuffing can be cooked along-side turkey in foil or in a casserole dish.
• When basting turkey, add some of the juices to any stuffing cooked outside the bird.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Coat a baking dish with cooking spray.
• Mix crushed round crackers, parsley, saltines, celery salt, and garlic together in a large bowl. Add scallops, crabmeat, melted butter, and cooking wine; mix stuffing well.
• Place a shrimp on a flat work surface. Slice horizontally through the middle, being careful not to cut all the way through to the other side. Open the 2 sides and spread them out like an open book. Repeat with remaining shrimp.
• Stuff each shrimp with a heaping tablespoon of stuffing and place back-side up in the baking dish. Repeat with remaining shrimp and stuffing. Add 1 or 2 tablespoons water to the bottom of the baking dish to keep shrimp moist during baking.
• Bake in the preheated oven until shrimp are opaque and stuffing is beginning to brown, 15 to 18 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Cook mushrooms, onion and celery in butter in skillet on medium heat until tender.
• Mix cracker crumbs, walnuts, parsley, poultry seasoning, pepper and vegetable mixture in large bowl. Add broth and eggs, tossing until well blended. Spoon into 2-quart baking dish or pan; cover.
• Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until heated through.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, finely crush the crackers and mix in the parsley flakes.
• Set aside.
• Heat the 1 tbs.
• olive oil and 3 tbs.
• butter on a medium to high heat, watching carefully.
• When hot and just starting to bubble, add the celery and carrots.
• Cook, stirring occasionally, for one minute.
• Add the onions and green peppers (and mushrooms if using-- see directions for make-ahead mushrooms below) and cook for another minute.
• Add the garlic and cook for another 1/2 minute to a minute until vegetables are tender.
• Remove from heat and pour entire vegetable and butter mixture into crushed crackers.
• Add the chopped seafood, old bay seasoning, netmeg, sherry, worcestershire sauce, clam juice, and pepper to taste.
• Mix well so the seasonings are evenly distributed.
• Taste for seasoning and adjust if necessary.
• I find the salt in the crackes and other ingredients is enough, but if you prefer you can add some additional salt at this time.
• Makes about 2 to 2 1/2 cups stuffing.
• To prepare Make-Ahead Stuffed Mushrooms: Preheat oven to 425.
• Remove stems from mushrooms and wash the mushrooms.
• (Save stems for another use, or you can chop them finely and add to the stuffing if desired by adding them along with the onions and green pepper to the butter. If doing so, add another 1/2 tbs. butter. However, I think this stuffing is better without them).
• Toss mushrooms with 1 1/2 tsp.
• olive oil and salt and place them in a shallow baking pan in one layer.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes (depending on size of mushrooms) and remove from oven to cool.
• Stuff the mushrooms evenly with the stuffing.
• Place in a shallow baking dish and sprinkle evenly with paprika.
• At this point you can refrigerate the mushrooms for up to 2 days, or freeze them for up to a month; thaw at least partially before cooking.
• When ready to serve, melt the remaining 2 tbs.
• of butter.
• Drizzle evenly over the mushrooms.
• If the mushrooms are room temperature, just broil them until the tops are crispy and they are heated through.
• If they are refrigerated or partially frozen, bake at 350 until heated through, then just run under the broiler for a few seconds to crisp the top, if necessary.
• Serve garnished with lemon wedges.

Steps:

• 1 Melt butter and add lemon juice mixing well. In a large bowl, crumble Ritz crackers well and add parsley to mixture 2 Clean, devein and butterfly shrimp by cutting shrimp horizontally but not all the way through, open shrimp to look like butterfly leaving the tails on. Add lemon butter to moisten but ritz cracker mix til slightly moist, but not wet stuffing consistency. Place shrimp in rows on pan sprayed with non stick cooking spray. Stuff shrimp with stuffing mixture. Pour remaining lemon butter over top and bake at 400 for about 10-15 minutes until done. Do not over cook shrimp. Serve with rice pilaf.