Sausage Apple Leek Stuffing Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Saute the sausage in a large heavy skillet over medium-high heat until cooked through, crumbling coarsely with the back of a spoon, about 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the sausage and drippings to a large bowl. Melt the butter in the same skillet over medium-high heat. Add the leeks, apples, celery and poultry seasoning to the skillet and saute until the leeks are soft, about 8 minutes. Mix in the drained cranberries, sage and rosemary. Add the mixture to the sausage, then mix in the croutons and parsley. Next add the chicken stock a little at a time until the stuffing is very moist. Be sure not to overdo it; it shouldn't be mushy. Season with salt and pepper. Place in a casserole dish. (The stuffing can be made to this point 2 days before Thanksgiving, refrigerated.)
• Bake in a 14-inch oval or 9 by 13-inch rectangular casserole dish and place, uncovered, in the oven for 20 to 30 minutes, until the top is crispy and the center piping hot. Remove and serve immediately.

Steps:

• Heat the broth, celery, onion and apples in a 3-quart saucepan over medium-high heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the vegetables and apples are tender.
• Add the sausage and stuffing and stir lightly to coat.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Toss bread with 3 tablespoons melted butter; season with salt and pepper. Spread on a rimmed baking sheet; toast, rotating halfway through, until browned, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Heat remaining tablespoon butter in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat. Add leeks; cook, stirring frequently, until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add apples; cook, turning occasionally, until tender, about 5 minutes.
• In a large bowl, combine bread, leek mixture, rosemary, and broth; season with salt and pepper. Add egg; stir until thoroughly combined. Transfer to a buttered 1 1/2-quart shallow baking dish.
• Bake until golden on top and crisp around edges, 40 to 45 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Heat 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat until it melts and starts to brown; add the apples, reduce the heat to medium and cook, stirring, until slightly tender, about 4 minutes. Stir in the honey and vinegar, then transfer to a large bowl to cool.
• Melt 2 tablespoons butter in the same skillet over medium-low heat. Add the bread cubes and toss to coat, then transfer to one side of a large rimmed baking sheet; add the sausage to the other side. Bake until the sausage is cooked through and the bread is toasted, 8 to 10 minutes. Add the sausage and bread to the bowl with the apples; add the sage, thyme and rosemary.
• Heat another 1 tablespoon butter in the skillet over medium heat. Add half each of the leeks, celery and parsnips, and 2 tablespoons water; season with salt and pepper. Cook until the vegetables are translucent, about 8 minutes, then transfer to the bowl with the sausage-apple mixture. Add the remaining leeks, celery and parsnips, and 2 tablespoons water to the skillet, season with salt and pepper and cook about 8 minutes; transfer to the bowl and toss. Warm a spoonful of the stuffing in the skillet with a touch of butter and taste the seasoning; adjust as needed. (It's so important to taste your stuffing while it's hot to get a sense of the seasonings and flavors.) Add the chicken stock to the bowl and toss to moisten all of the ingredients.
• Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Brush a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with 1 tablespoon butter. Transfer the stuffing mixture to the dish and dot with the remaining 3 tablespoons butter. Cover with aluminum foil and bake 40 minutes, then uncover and continue baking until golden brown, about 40 more minutes.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350. Coat a 13x9 baking pan with nonstick spray.
• Place a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Removing casings from sausage and crumble into skillet. Cook 7 minutes or until no longer pink and remove to a bowl with slotted spoon.
• Add 2 tbsp unsalted butter to skillet. Add leeks, celery, salt and pepper and cover. Cook until for about 10 minutes or until softened, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in 2 apples, thyme, and another 1/4 tsp salt and pepper. Cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add to sausage.
• Stir in 8 cups of stale white bread, chicken broth, half and half, and parsley.
• Pour mixture into pan and bake at 350 for 50 minutes or until lightly browned on top.

Steps:

• Cook and stir sausage in a large skillet over medium heat, crumbling coarsely, for about 10 minutes. Remove sausage to a large bowl with a slotted spoon. Empty pan of grease.
• Into the same pan melt the butter. Add the leeks or onions, apples, celery and poultry seasoning; cook until softened, about 10 minutes. Add the rosemary, dried cranberries and cooked sausage. Mix all with the dried bread cubes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Moisten with the chicken stock.
• Stuff turkey with about 5 cups for a 14 pound turkey. Add additional chicken stock to moisten stuffing if needed. Remaining stuffing can be baked in a covered buttered casserole at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 45 minutes. Uncover and bake for another 15 minutes to brown top.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Divide bread cubes between 2 large baking sheets. Bake until slightly dry, about 15 minutes. Cool completely.
• Sauté sausages in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat until cooked through, crumbling coarsely with back of spoon, about 10 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer sausage to large bowl. Pour off any drippings from skillet. Melt butter in same skillet over medium-high heat. Add leeks, apples, celery and poultry seasoning to skillet; sauté until leeks soften, about 8 minutes. Mix in dried cranberries and rosemary. Add mixture to sausage, then mix in bread and parsley. Season stuffing to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.) Mix eggs into stuffing.
• TO bake stuffing in turkey:
• Fill main turkey cavity with stuffing. Mix enough chicken broth into remaining stuffing to moisten (about 3/4 to 1 cup chicken broth, depending on amount of remaining stuffing). Spoon remaining stuffing into buttered baking dish. Cover with buttered aluminum foil. Bake stuffing in dish alongside turkey until heated through, about 45 minutes. Uncover stuffing and bake until top is golden brown, about 15 minutes.
• To bake all stuffing in pan:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 15x10x2-inch baking dish. Mix 1 1/3 cups broth into stuffing. Transfer to prepared dish. Cover with buttered foil and bake until heated through, about 45 minutes. Uncover and bake until top is golden brown, about 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425˚F (220˚C). Grease a 9x13-inch (23x33-cm) baking dish.
• Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the sausage and cook until browned and no longer pink, about 5 minutes.
• Add the celery, onions, and garlic. Cook until softened and golden, about 5 minutes.
• Add the apples, sage, and thyme. Cook until slightly softened, about 3 minutes.
• In a medium bowl, beat together the eggs, chicken stock, salt, and pepper.
• In a large bowl, combine the bread and cooked sausage mixture.
• Pour the egg mixture over the bread and vegetable mixture, and stir to coat.
• Transfer the stuffing to the prepared baking dish and cover with foil.
• Bake for 30 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for another 15 minutes, or until the top is golden brown.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Arrange bread cubes on 2 heavy large baking sheets. Bake until slightly dry, about 10 minutes. Cool completely.
• Heat oil in heavy large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add leeks, sausage, celery, sugar, thyme and sage. Season with salt and pepper and cook until sausage is cooked through and leeks are tender, crumbling sausage with fork and stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Transfer mixture to large bowl. Cool slightly. Add bread cubes and currants to sausage mixture and toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.) Stir beaten eggs into stuffing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Spray a large casserole dish with non-stick spray.
• In a large bowl, add the stuffing crumbs, salt, pepper and bell's seasoning.
• Toss to mix well.
• In a large skillet, heat the butter, margarine or oil over medium heat.
• Add the celery and saute for a minute or two.
• Then add the onions, and saute another few minutes.
• Add the chopped sausage patties, the apple, and the nuts, and keep sauteeing until the onions are transluscent, the apples are just barely cooked through and the nuts are lightly toasted.
• Remove from the heat and pour this whole mixture into the stuffing crumb mixture.
• Toss all together to blend well.
• Boil the water and add the broth mix or cubes to the water and stir to dissolve.
• Add about half of the broth to the stuffing mixture and stir.
• Keep adding broth and mixing it in until the whole mixture is moistened to the stuffing consistency you like.
• Then add a little more of the broth to compensate for evaporation while it's baking.
• You don't want this too mushy.
• Taste and adjust seasonings.
• Dump the whole bowl of stuffing into the baking dish and spread out evenly.
• You can cover it at this point and refrigerate it until you're ready to bake it.
• Bake at 350 for about 30-40 minutes, until heated throughout and a bit crispy on top.
• If you need to keep it warm in the oven, keep it covered with a pan cover or aluminum foil.
• NOTES: Bell's Seasoning: Bell's seasoning is a fantastic chicken and stuffing seasoning mix that's been around for ages.
• I've seen it touted as Martha Stewart's secret stuffing ingredient, but my family's been using it forever, long before she was Martha Stewart!
• If you can't find it, it's a mixture of rosemary, oregano, sage, ginger, marjoram, thyme and pepper.
• If you can't get Bell's, use a mixture to your taste of whatever of those seasonings you can get your hands on, and go a little bit heavy on the sage.
• Bread Mixture: You want the stuffing mix that is just the cornbread crumbs or dried cubes, you don't want a Stovetop type mix.
• You can substitute 1/2 to 3/4 of a loaf of fresh bread, cubed, mixed with and 8x8" pan of crumbled cornbread.
• If using fresh bread, you'll need much less broth, and you might want to go a bit heavier on the seasonings.
• Taste first and see.
• Soy"sausage" patties: You can omit this completely if you desire and still have a great stuffing.
• Broth Mix: This is my secret to vegetarian cooking.
• The kosher broth mixes come in powder form in jars, and can be found in the kosher food section of the supermarket.
• Carmel Kosher and Manischewitz are two of the more popular brands.
• There are no mean products in them whatsover, and they are not only vegetarian, they are vegan too (I checked).
• They come in chicken, beef, onion, mushroom, and other flavors.
• And I personally like them better than the kinds that have meat in them.
• If you don't want to use them, then a vegetable broth mix would work fine.
• But I like the richness they can give to many vegetarian dishes.

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Tear the bread into chunks, tip into a roasting tin and toss in the oil. Roast for 10-15 mins until crisp. Pour over the stock, then leave to cool.
• Heat the butter and a drop of oil in a pan. Cook the leeks and onions over a low-medium heat for 15 mins until soft and starting to caramelise. Stir in the fennel seeds. Leave to cool.
• Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Squeeze the sausage meat from the skins into a bowl. Add the apples, herbs, egg, leek and onion mix, and a grinding of black pepper. Combine everything well with your hands. Mix in the bread and press into a roasting tin. Drizzle the sage leaves with oil and press onto the stuffing. Bake for 30 mins until golden.