My husband never liked anything but Stove Top Stuffing. Last year at Thanksgiving, he told me not to bother to make him any stuffing so I made a small batch of my stuffing and then I didn’t get much of it because he ate almost all of it! So now I make a large dish of this dressing so there’s plenty for leftovers. Crunchy on the bottom and soft and moist inside, you’ll never miss the gluten or the eggs. I use this for a Thanksgiving dressing or to stuff chicken breasts or pork chops.
I don’t cut and dry the bread before making the stuffing — the way I figure it, if you have to dry the bread out so that it will absorb all the flavors of the other things you’re adding, your bread isn’t very good. So I start with my favorite gluten-free bread (I love the DeLand’s Millet and Flax bread or even their millet flatbread), and then don’t add as much chicken or turkey stock (if you want this vegan, don’t use the sausage and use vegetable broth instead of the meat stocks).
Grease a large, flat casserole dish and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large skillet, over medium heat:
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 pound of sausage, I use turkey sausage
Brown and then add:
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 1 cup diced baby bella mushrooms
Cook until the vegetables are soft.
In a medium size bowl, place:
- 6 cups of diced gluten-free bread
- 1 tablespoon dry sage
- Salt and pepper to taste
- the sausage and vegetable mixture
Mix well and pour into the prepared dish. Pour over the dressing, 1 cup stock (you can use up to 1 1/2 cups if needed but it may be mushier) being sure to get most of the bread moist. Cover with aluminum foil, or the cover to the casserole dish if it has one. Cook for 1/2 hour and then remove cover and let cook for another 15 minutes until top is browned.
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