I make three stuffing recipes each year out of this one recipe. Everyone is satisfied at the holiday dinner.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time1 hourhr
Total Time1 hourhr10 minutesmins
Course: Bread, Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Keyword: bread, holiday, recipe
Servings: 18servings
Calories: 286kcal
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Ingredients
Basic Dressing Recipe
1mediumonionDiced
3StalksceleryDiced
1Tbl. Oil
8 Oz. ChickenDiced (Can Be chicken giblets, chicken breast, or even ground pork)
14Oz. Unseasoned Bread CubesCan be purchased in a bag or stale bread cubed
14Oz. Seasoned Bread CubesCan be purchased in a bag or stale bread cubed and mixed with 1 Tbl. of Sage
6Medium-Largeeggs
2CupsChicken Broth
3Tbl. sugar
saltTo Taste
pepperTo taste
1/2Cupbutter(1 stick) sliced thin
Optional Ingredients
1CupmushroomsDiced
1CupRaisins(soaked in water for 1 hour and drained before adding). This moistens and softens them
1Cupdried cranberries(soaked in water for 1 hour and drained before adding). This moistens and softens them
1CupAppleDiced
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Instructions
Basic Dressing Recipe
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Dice the celery and onions. In a saucepan, add the diced celery and onions. Saute until soft. Set aside to cool
Dice and cook the giblets or chicken or ground pork. Set aside to cool
In a large bowl, add the seasoned and unseasoned bread cubes, the eggs. (note, I always crack the eggs in a separate bowl and add them one at a time - just in case there is a shell or something else). Continue adding the chicken broth, sugar, salt, pepper, the celery and onions, and the meat. (Hint: if you warm up the chicken broth slightly, mixing the ingredients is easier).
spray a baking dish with oil or butter it if you wish. If you are going to put this all in one container I would use a 9 X 13 baking pan. At our house, I make variations of the recipe using the optional ingredients for different family members. In this photo, you can see that I need to split mine into 3 containers. Using your hands, mix all the ingredients until fully incorporated. (I use one hand and keep one clean to get things.)
Either put the dressing all in one container, or put part of the recipe in a container. In my case, I need to split the remaining into two more containers. One gets a cup of raisins (for my husband and daughter). Split your dressing as you need to and put it in the baking dishes.
Slice the stick of butter thinly. (this works best with chilled butter). Divide the better between your dressing containers, pushing it in the dressing.
Bake uncovered at 350 Degrees F. for 60 minutes.
Optional Ingredients
If adding optional ingredients, this can either be added to the entire dressing recipe or part of the mixed dressing can be divided out and the optional ingredient can be added. Then put in separate container and bake.