Crockpot Sausage Stuffing

Why use the bird for your container? Use your crockpot and and your stuffing will be ready when you are. I've cooked this with several variations. Lately the family likes cranberries instead of apples so I use water instead of the apple cider and put in 1 1/2 cups of cranberries and omit the apples. I think the key to this stuffing is Bells Stuffing Mix. It really smells and tastes wonderful. For the sausage, I use one of those breakfast sausage rolls. To plump up the cranberries, put them in hot water while you cook the sausage, onions and celery. Use that water for the recipe so that you don't pour any favor down the drain. 16 oz of Bells Stuffing says it stuffs a 20 lb bird but with all the extras here, I'm sure we're talking 25 lbs so this makes a decent amount of stuffing.

• Ready In: 4 hrs 30 mins
• Serves: 10

Ingredients

• 1  cup onion (chopped)
• 1  cup celery (chopped)
• 1  lb pork sausage (16 oz pork sausage roll)
• 1⁄4 cup butter (melted)
• 2  cups apples (peeled and chopped)
• 1 1⁄2 cups apple cider
• 1⁄2 cup water
• 1 (16 ounce)  seasoned stuffing mix (Bells Seasoned Stuffing Mix)
• 1  cup dried cranberries (optional)

Directions

1. Place sausage in a cast iron skillet.
2. Turn on heat to medium and while the sausage cooks break sausage into small pieces.
3. Drain fat then place sausage into large mixing bowl.
4. Add apples and Bells stuffing mix to mixing bowl and mix with a wooden spoon.
5. Melt butter in the same skillet.
6. Saute onions and celery in butter until tender and pour mixture over other ingredients in mixing bowl.
7. Combine ingredients once more while your pour cider and water over the mixture.
8. Stuff your crockpot.
9. Put your crockpot on low.
10. Let cook for 4-6 hours.