Best Nanas Best Turkey Dressing Recipes

NANA'S THANKSGIVING DRESSING

Steps:

• Cook turkey giblets while preparing vegetables - Save broth - strip meat off turkey neck and save for dressing.
• In deep pan fry sausage and ground beef, use 12 cube butter with meat. Fry until no longer pink.
• Add a few of the diced vegetables, about a cup at a time. Stir and cook, add more butter and vegetables gradually. Also, add spices as you add vegetables. Don't use table salt as the pork has salt in it.
• As vegetables cook down (test carrots for doneness) pour broth and croutons alternately into mixture, keep stirring all the while. The croutons will make the mixture thick, be sure and don't get it soupy. (if you do, add more croutons) add meat from stripped turkey neck.
• May be served like this or put in baking dish and bake about 1 hour at 350*.

NANA'S TURKEY STUFFING

Steps:

• The night before, lay out the bread slices to dry.
• Cut dried bread into cubes.
• In a large frying pan, brown loose sausage with onions and celery.
• Add apricots and seasonings.
• Pour sausage mixture into large bowl with bread and combine.
• Stuff turkey or place in casserole and moisten with chicken broth.
• If using casserole, place in oven with turkey for about the last hour.
• Moisten further with turkey drippings as necessary.

NANA'S BEST TURKEY DRESSING

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove giblets from turkey. Cook in large covered pot with water. Add diced celery, diced onion, rubbed sage, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. Cook on low-medium heat until tender. Remove giblets from pot and set aside to cool.
• 2. Save all giblet broth to add to turkey broth. After the turkey has finished baking, carefully drain turkey broth into a large bowl. Add the giblet broth to turkey broth. Add stuffing mix to broth. Using a wooden spoon, mix together until moist until a ball can be formed in your hand and stay together (not stiff with bread).
• 3. Taste and add more salt if necessary. Add cans of chicken broth, if necessary. Spread into 9 x 13 pans or spoon into muffin tins. Bake until brown and crispy on top.

OLD FASHIONED STUFFING

Steps:

• Allow the toasted bread to sit approximately 24 hours, until hard.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Crush the bread into crumbs with a rolling pin. Place the crumbs in a large bowl.
• Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the onion and celery and slowly cook until soft. Remove from heat and drain.
• Mix the eggs and chicken broth into the bread crumbs. The mixture should be moist, but not mushy. Use water, if necessary, to attain desired consistency. Mix in the onion, celery, rubbed sage, garlic powder, salt and pepper.
• Press the mixture into the baking dish. Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until the top is brown and crisp.

THE BEST TURKEY DRESSING (STUFFING)

Steps:

• Melt 6 tablespoons butter in a large frying pan. Add onions. Cook over medium heat until onions are quite soft and tender, about 15 minutes. Transfer onions and butter to a large mixing bowl. Set aside. Melt another 6 tablespoons butter in the same frying pan. Add apple. Cook over medium heat, until lightly colored but not mushy. Transfer apples and butter to mixing bowl with onions.
• Crumble sausage into frying pan. Cook over medium heat, until lightly browned. With a slotted spoon, transfer sausage to mixing bowl. Reserve fat. Add remaining ingredients, except eggs and stock, to mixing bowl. Mix well. Add eggs. Mix. Add enough stock to bowl to make a moist, but not runny, mixture. Add fat to stuffing if desired. Stuff a 20-lb. turkey. If cooking dressing separately from turkey, pour fat over dressing in casserole. Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes, or until nicely browned and cooked through.