Classic Easy Turkey Stuffing
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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16 cups stuffing
ingredients
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 lb bacon, chopped
- 3⁄4 cup butter
- 3 stalks celery, chopped
- 2 medium onions, chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh minced garlic (or to taste)
- 14 cups bread cubes (must be stale but still soft and cut into about 1/2-inch cubes)
- 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning (to taste) or 2 teaspoons rubbed sage (to taste)
- 2 teaspoons seasoning salt
- black pepper
- 1 cup low sodium chicken broth (you might use more than 1 cup)
- 1 1⁄4 cups dried cranberries (optional but really good to add)
directions
- In a large frypan fry the bacon until crisp; (do not drain the drippings) remove and crumble; set aside.
- Add 3/4 cup butter (no less than 3/4 cup!) to the bacon drippings and melt.
- Add in chopped celery, onions and garlic; sauté until tender.
- Add HALF of the bread cubes to the butter; stir to coat, and keep stirring with a wooden spoon until the bread cubes are lightly browned and the butter is absorbed.
- Transfer to a large bowl (or finish in the frypan, if you have a large enough frypan to hold all ingredients) and add in remaining bread cubes, salt, pepper and poultry seasoning or sage (if using).
- Add in crumbled bacon and the cranberries or other ingredients that you choose to use; mix to combine.
- Drizzle with the chicken broth (mixing with a wooden spoon) until you have reached the desired moistness, you might have to add in more than 1 cup, but do not add in too much or your bread will become too "soggy".
- Immediately stuff the turkey, and cook.
- **NOTE** the flavor of the stuffing will vary depending on ingredients and type of bread used.
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Reviews
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I had never made stuffing before from scratch... I was raised on Stove Top! However my partner wanted me to make it since she was raised with it. I said I wasn't going to make anything like her mother's because she would compare it. I found this and it is fantastic. Over the last few years I've tweaked it a bit more to make it "mine" and use mushrooms as well when cooking the onion & celery. They love it so much they ask for two batches! But I do leave out the cranberries as well as another reviewer.
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This is my go-to stuffing every year, along with Kittencal's buttermilk brine. I swear if it wasn't for kittencal making this so easy, my holidays would be such disasters. This stuffing gets RAVE reviews every single time I make it. I've tweaked it so that I instead use fresh chopped sage, thyme and rosemary instead of just "poultry seasoning". Absolute WINNER.
Tweaks
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This is my go-to stuffing every year, along with Kittencal's buttermilk brine. I swear if it wasn't for kittencal making this so easy, my holidays would be such disasters. This stuffing gets RAVE reviews every single time I make it. I've tweaked it so that I instead use fresh chopped sage, thyme and rosemary instead of just "poultry seasoning". Absolute WINNER.