Sausage and sage stuffing

14 ratings

Prep Time:10 mins

Cooking Time:180 mins

Serves:24 Adults

Cost:Low

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without stuffing! This is our tried and tested recipe for making delicious stuffing

Ingredients

900g / 2 lb of good quality sausage meat
2 garlic cloves, peeled sliced
1 medium onion, peeled diced
3 slices of wholemeal bread
1 medium egg, beaten
1 tablespoon dried sage
1 tablespoon water

Method

Make breadcrumbs from the bread by cutting slices into quarters and blending in a food processor until small crumbs are created, or grate into breadcrumbs using a cheese grater
Put the breadcrumbs, onion and sage in a large mixing bowl, add the water and mix thoroughly
To this add the sausage meat, finely chopped garlic and egg and mix well
Use this to stuff the cavity of the turkey to no more than 10% of the weight of the bird

What you will need

Cheese grater
Mixing bowl
Wooden spoon

Serving suggestions

If you have any stuffing left over; grease a loaf tin and put the stuffing inside and roast in the oven until it is golden brown on the outside and there is no pink meat left in the middle

Nutritional Information:

All our recipes are nutritionally analysed by our team of experts.

1/24 of the recipe contains

Energy

299kj

71kcal

Fat

2.5g

Saturates

0.9g

Sugars

1.8g

Salt

0.52g

FOOD SAFETY

Keeping food safe in your fridge

Keeping food chilled in the fridge slows down the growth of bacteria. Follow these five cool rules.

HEALTHY EATING

Fibre

Getting enough fibre helps lower our risk of heart disease, diabetes and weight gain.

"Allow to cool before storing any leftovers in the fridge"

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