Mama's Stuffing
The stuffing was always my favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner when I was growing up. Mama's Stuffing is my mother's homemade stuffing recipe and is too good not to share. This will also be your favorite part of dinner too.
Ingredients
- 16 cups bread cubes
- 1 cup oats
- 1 cup rice, cooked
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 4 teaspoons poultry seasoning
- 1 teaspoon turkey
- 1/4 cup bacon drippings
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 cup butter
- 5 ounces nuts, chopped, or sunflower seeds
- 4 cups water
- 2 bay leaves
Instructions
- Use both flavored and plain breads in the stuffing. Mix bread, oats, rice, and seasonings in large bowl.
- Remove neck and giblets from turkey; set aside.
- Melt bacon grease in skillet. Cook onion until tender, then without draining melted butter in onions and add to dry ingredients. Mix very well.
- Stir in crumbled cornbread and nuts or sunflower seeds, and stuff turkey. Bake breast side down until done.
- Boil neck and giblets in water with seasonings until done (about 20 minutes). Discard neck and giblets.
- Add strained broth to leftover uncooked stuffing.
- When turkey is done, remove it from roasting pan and add all drippings to uncooked stuffing. Uncooked stuffing will be extremely wet.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Spray casserole with Pam, fill with stuffing, and bake covered for 30 minutes. No-turkey method: save drippings and giblets from several chickens. Use drippings in lieu of turkey drippings, and cook chicken giblets and necks in lieu of turkey giblets.
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