Sage, onion, sausage and chestnut stuffing for your Christmas dinner
Sage, onion, sausage and chestnut stuffing for your Christmas dinner

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Great recipe for Sage, onion, sausage and chestnut stuffing for your Christmas dinner. No matter how full your Christmas plate, there's always space for a serving of traditional chestnut stuffing alongside the turkey, pigs in blankets, sprouts, roast potatoes, cranberry sauce and gravy. You can cook the stuffing separately in a baking dish, or loosely pack it inside the neck cavity of the bird, either way this tried-and-tested chestnut stuffing recipe will bring flavoursome.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have sage, onion, sausage and chestnut stuffing for your christmas dinner using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sage, onion, sausage and chestnut stuffing for your Christmas dinner:
  1. Get 210 x g sage and onion stuffing mix (or dry bread crumb)
  2. Take 425 ml boiling water
  3. Make ready 1 x large white onion
  4. Make ready 2 x apples grated
  5. Make ready 1 x small bunch sage (or other herb of your choice)
  6. Take 440 x g sausage meat
  7. Take 40 x g butter
  8. Make ready 200 x g chestnuts
  9. Prepare to taste salt and pepper

Something about the smell of sage just screams Christmas with my family and roasting the chestnuts is a perfect Christmas-time experience. For a Christmas twist, try adding a handful of chopped cooked chestnuts and dried cranberries along with the sausagemeat. This stuffing came joint sixth in our best meat stuffing Christmas taste test. Season well with salt and pepper, then add the egg and mix thoroughly.

Steps to make Sage, onion, sausage and chestnut stuffing for your Christmas dinner:
  1. Add boiling water to stuffing mixture and stir, while this mixture cools and thickens chop the onion.
  2. Sweat onions but don't brown then add to the bread mixture and stir
  3. If using sausages score and remove the skin, pick the sage leaves and then chop.
  4. Combine sage with stuffing mix, grate the apple and add that, mix
  5. Add the sausage and mix followed by the chestnuts
  6. Season with salt and pepper then form into a baking dish
  7. Or you can form a large log shape on greased baking parchment and roll like a Christmas cracker then surround with a couple of layers of tin foil.
  8. Form the log tight, garnish the top of the stuffing with some extra sage leaves or cranberries for example, drizzle with olive oil and bake at 190c for about 30 minutes. In the last image you can see the oven dish stuffing with a lovely golden crust
  9. The log stuffing should be made a day or 2 ahead of time so that you can unwrap it when cold and carve, just make sure the slices are at least a couple of cm thickness
  10. Arrange slices of stuffing on a baking tray and re-heat until nice and toasty, the 2nd image shows the sliced stuffing and the 3rd image shows the oven dish stuffing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEHlNwpbZG4

If making the sausage meat stuffing, melt the butter and fry the onion as above, then add the sausage meat, apple and herbs. Stir the remaining ingredients into the pan and mix well. Allow to cool completely if you are. Put all the ingredients except the bacon and sage leaves in a bowl. Either roll into balls or spread out evenly in a greased ovenproof dish.

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