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Maple Apple Sausage Stuffing

The BEST stuffing or dressing to perfectly compliment your holiday dinner. Stuff a turkey, serve as a side with pork or poultry. Tart cranberries, crisp sweet apples, crunchy pecans and savory sausage, sweet maple syrup and a splash of bourbon, this will become your new stuffing.

Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 8 -12 servings
Calories: 409 kcal
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • 1 10* oz bag cubed seasoned stuffing I used Mrs. Cubbison's Organic, Non-GMO
  • 1 lb breakfast sausage I like bulk, all natural, nitrate, nitrite free
  • ½ cup butter
  • 1 cup onion diced (about 1 medium onion)
  • 1 cup celery diced (about 4 ribs celery)
  • ½ cup fresh cranberries chopped (or sub with 1/2 cup dried cranberries)
  • ½ apple chopped (I use honeycrisp)
  • ½-¾ cup pecans rough chopped and toasted
  • 3 Tablespoons Whiskey or Bourbon apple juice may be substituted
  • 2 Tablespoons maple syrup no substitutions
  • 1-2 cups chicken or turkey broth/stock

Instructions

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  1. In a large heavy sauté pan, over medium-high heat, brown the breakfast sausage (I like to remove the casings if using tube sausage).
  2. Once browned, remove sausage to a large bowl.
  3. Pour bag of dry stuffing mix into the bowl over the sausage.
  4. In the same pan you browned your sausage, melt your butter over medium heat, heat until it foams up and then subsides, browning the butter until a nutty aroma is smelled.
  5. Add your chopped onions and celery and sauté until tender and translucent, about 3-4 minutes.
  6. While your veggies are sautéing, heat another pan and toss in pecans over medium heat, toss around for a couple minutes until warmed and slightly toasted.
  7. Add your chopped cranberries and apples to the onion/celery mixture and sauté over medium heat for 1-2 minutes. Stirring well.
  8. Increase heat slightly and carefully pour in whiskey (bourbon or apple juice may be substituted) and reduce until liquid almost gone.
  9. Pour in your maple syrup, stir around.
  10. Remove from stove and pour veggie, fruit mixture over the stuffing.
  11. Gently combine all ingredients, but stirring.
  12. Add 1 cup of chicken stock and gently stir to coat most of the stuffing mix.
  13. If stuffing a turkey, remove amount needed to stuff and stuff turkey when ready to roast.
  14. Otherwise, butter a casserole dish well and place stuffing inside dish. Cover and refrigerate until ready to bake. Remove from fridge 30-60 minutes prior to baking.
  15. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes, for crisper dressing, leave uncovered, for moister keep foil on and uncover during last 15 minutes of baking.
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Notes

  • SLOW COOKER METHOD: If desired, this can be baked in your slow cooker. Butter or grease crock well, pour in prepared stuffing. Cover and cook on high for 1 hour 25 minutes, stirring once halfway through. Once full time has passed, turn off slow cooker, lightly toss stuffing, cover again and let sit for 5 minutes before serving.

Nutrition Information

Serving 11 serving Calories 409kcal (20%) Carbohydrates 14g (5%) Protein 15g (30%) Fat 32g (49%) Saturated Fat 10g (50%) Polyunsaturated Fat 20g Trans Fat 1g Cholesterol 75mg (25%) Sodium 616mg (26%) Fiber 2g (8%) Sugar 6g (12%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 8-12 servings

Amount Per Serving

Calories 409

% Daily Value*

Serving 11 serving
Calories 409kcal 20%
Carbohydrates 14g 5%
Protein 15g 30%
Fat 32g 49%
Saturated Fat 10g 50%
Polyunsaturated Fat 20g 118%
Trans Fat 1g 50%
Cholesterol 75mg 25%
Sodium 616mg 26%
Fiber 2g 8%
Sugar 6g 12%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.