This Sage and Onion Pork Stuffing recipe is delicious and packed full of flavour. I make it every year and it is always a huge crowd pleaser. It is the perfect accompaniment to Roast Turkey or Chicken.
Pork Stuffing
This is a really easy stuffing recipe and is just incredibly delicious. It is my go to at Christmas and I make it way before and freeze ready for the big day.
Being a natural flapper I am always about the make ahead. To that end in order to ease my stress levels I cook my Turkey in the Slow Cooker to serve alongside this pork stuffing on the day. However this stuffing is fantastic served with Roast Pork or Roast Chicken too.
It is made with pork sausagemeat, apple sauce, smoked streaky bacon, sage, breadcrumbs and seasoning. I caramelise the onions in butter too before adding to the rest of the Xmas stuffing ingredients.
The caramelised onions really take it to another level. Paired with the background sweetness from the apple sauce, sage and small kick from the black pepper this stuffing really delivers. I could not imagine Christmas without it.
How Do You Make Stuffing From Scratch ?
- 3 large brown onions
- (1 oz) 30 grams sage
- (3.5 oz) 100 grams breadcrumbs
- 2 tsp salt
- half a tsp ground black pepper
- (32 oz) 900 grams sausagemeat
- 6 heaped tbsp apple sauce (200 grams/7 oz) - here is my homemade version of apple sauce
- ( 1 oz) 30 grams butter
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 10 rashers streaky bacon
I do strongly recommend that you get the best sausage meat that you can. Otherwise the texture is too soft and the flavour is not as good. You are looking for a sausage meat with a high meat content.
If possible 80 % pork content. It should say on the side of the packet.
Step 1 - Preparing the Onions
Chop the onions into half moons about 3 mm thick and place in a large pan with 2 tbsps of olive oil and 1 tbsp of butter.
Sliced Onions
Cook until they turn a deep brown and caramelise. This takes at least 20 minutes over a medium heat.
STEP 2 - Mixing the Pork Stuffing
I get all the ingredients ready now that the onions have caramelised.
I put them in my free standing mixer and mix them all together slowly with the paddle beater, I'm all about the easy. Alternatively you can use a wooden spoon or your hands.
Mixed Pork Stuffing
All that remains is to put in your roasting dish. The right size dish is important and will affect the cooking time.
A larger dish will take less time than a smaller and therefore deeper stuffing mix.
Mine is 18cm x 26cm
Raw Pork Stuffing
STEP 3 - Baking the Sage and Onion Stuffing
I bake it in a preheated oven at 190 C/375 F/Gas Mark 5 for about 45 minutes.
If your sausage meat has produced a lot of fat then very carefully tip most of it away by tipping the dish gently up. You may need another pair of hands to help here.
Pork Stuffing
Can I Freeze Pork Stuffing?
Yes you can. I do exactly this to get ahead for Christmas Day.
If freezing then allow to fully cool and double wrap in clingfilm and then silver foil before freezing for up to a month.
Allow to defrost in the fridge for 24 hours before reheating until piping hot 71 C. I do that covered in silver foil at 180 C/350 F/Gas Mark 4.
I take off the silver foil for ten minutes or so before it's ready to make sure the top is crispy.
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Ingredients
- 3 large brown onions or 4 medium
- 30 grams sage
- 100 grams breadcrumbs
- 2 tsps salt
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
- 900 grams pork sausagemeat
- 200 grams apple sauce
- 30 grams butter
- 2 tbsps olive oil
- 10 rashers smoked streaky bacon chopped (I use scissors)
Instructions
- Slice the onions into thin half moons and place in a sauce pan with the butter and olive oil. Fry gently for about 20/25 minutes until the onions become caramelised and brown. Preheat your oven to 190 C.
- Strip the leaves from the stems of the sage and slice finely. Put all the ingredients including the sage into a large mixing bowl and mix well. I use my free standing mixer or my hands as it's really the easiest way as it is a heavy mixture. I then fry a little sample pattie of the mix to check for seasoning. Add more seasoning if required.
- Tip into your roasting tray and smooth out evenly. It's best to have a thickness of stuffing about 4 cm so choose your dish accordingly.
- Bake in the oven for about 35 minutes. Keep an eye on it to ensure it doesn't catch. Put a silver foil hat on it if it does so before the cooking time is up. Of course different dishes will result in differing cooking times. If in doubt use a probe, the stuffing should have reached 71 C.
- If you are freezing ahead of the big day then allow to cool completely before covering well in silver foil and putting inside a carrier bag. Place in the freezer before defrosting completely and reheating.
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Notes
Nutrition
All nutritional information is approximate and intended only as a guide.
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Monika
Yum! My next recipe is also Christmas stuffing, what a coincidence,eh:)?
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Great minds Monika??????
Eb Gargano | Easy Peasy Foodie
Oh wow - this looks properly awesome. I love stuffing and yours really does look very good indeed. I love the idea of adding apple sauce! My last nativity was last year **sob** My youngest is only 7, but the KS2 children don't do a nativity. They were in a panto, though, so that sort of made up for it. I know what you mean about having kids making Christmas more magical...it really does. You see it all through their eyes and it is wonderful. Super stressful, utterly manic and totally crazy...but magical and wonderful too. I will need a good long lie down afterwards though!! Eb x
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Hope you made it through Eb!Have a fantastic 2018!xx