These pink, sweet pears with cranberry and cinnamon flavors are excellent!
| Prep Time: | 40 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 40 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- turkey innards (gizzard, liver, heart, tail, and neck)
- 2 stalks celery with leaves, diced
- 1 medium carrot, diced
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- ¼ pound ground beef
- 1 loaf day-old white bread, cubed
- 2 cups chopped celery with leaves
- 1 medium apple, cored and chopped with peel
- ¼ cup chopped walnuts
- ¼ teaspoon poultry seasoning
- ¼ teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ teaspoon dried sage
- ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
- ¼ teaspoon dried rosemary
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
Instructions
- Combine turkey innards, diced celery, diced carrot, and bay leaf in a pot. Season with salt and pepper and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook for 1 hour, removing liver after 30 minutes. Remove and discard neck, tail, and bay leaf. Remove remaining innards and put with the liver to cool. Keep broth in the pot.
- Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease.
- Combine bread cubes, beef, chopped celery, apple, walnuts, poultry seasoning, oregano, sage, thyme, and rosemary in a large bowl. Season with salt and pepper.
- Chop cooled innards into small pieces. Add to the bread mixture and mix until everything is evenly distributed, adding in broth mixture (including cooked celery and carrots) and oil to moisten the dressing to desired texture. Stuffing is ready to bake in the oven or stuff in the bird.
- Use an electric knife to cut the bread so the pieces are even. Besides being a lot easier and faster, it makes fewer crumbs.
- To cook: Stuff the neck cavity first, then stuff the remainder in the stomach cavity. Cook bird according to weight. Stuffing is done when an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center reads at least 160 degrees F (71 degrees C).
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 285 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 34 g |
| Cholesterol | 9 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 8 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 432 mg |
| Sugars | 5 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |