Thanksgiving Better Than Stove Top Dressing Muffins
Serve stuffing in style this year with stuffing muffins! Thanksgiving Better than Stove Top Stuffing Muffins are the perfect Thanksgiving side dish.
Crispy yet soft, these better than Stove Top stuffing muffins are a fun twist on a classic stuffing. This recipe will quickly become a great addition to your Thanksgiving table.
Even better, leftover stuffing muffins reheat beautifully to extend the Thanksgiving dinner experience.
What Is Stuffing?
Traditional stuffing is a mixture of bread, celery, onion, seasonings and chicken stock baked inside of a turkey.
Many people choose to use a premade boxed mix like Stove Top stuffing and bake it in a casserole dish instead. While many serve it like a casserole this method lacks the crispy edges of stuffing muffins.
Boxed mixes consist of rehydrated bread, celery and onion. Box mixes lack the flavor and texture that homemade stuffing and dressing delivers.
Stuffing muffins provide superior texture and flavor compared to box mixes.
Are Stuffing Muffins Better Than Traditional Stuffing?
This stuffing muffin recipe has several advantages over a traditional stuffing recipe. Stuffing muffins maintain a good texture after reheating. This makes them a top contender for thanksgiving leftovers.
Secondly, they are already portioned into individual portions. They are the perfect size to pack up into an airtight container to send home with guests (if you can bare to part with them).
Thirdly, stuffing muffins ensure the perfect crispy bite of stuffing in every muffin!
Why Is This Recipe Better Than Stove Top?
As with any from scratch recipe the difference in taste is the quality of the ingredients.
This recipe is simplistic but stunning because of the quality ingredients used. Most boxed stuffing mix includes 20+ ingredients. These include several preservatives, colorings, and unspecified natural flavors.
This stuffing muffin recipe uses nine recognizable ingredients. Bread, butter, salt, pepper, sage, poultry seasoning, chicken stock, celery and onion.
Fresh onion and celery bring a texture and taste that goes unmatched in comparison to the box mix. High quality bread is the best part of this recipe, because it adds textural interest and flavor to the dish.
Larger pieces of bread instead of breadcrumbs provide a great mouth feel. One taste of homemade stuffing muffins and you will never want to use stuffing mix ever again.
How to Serve Thanksgiving Better Than Stove Top Stuffing Muffins:
Stuffing muffins function very similarly to dinner rolls at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Place them in a large bowl like rolls and serve along side your meal.
Drizzle stuffing muffins with butter, cranberry sauce, gravy or enjoy them plain. Stuffing muffins pair perfectly with a holiday meal or a regular comfort food meal at home.
Ingredients:
2 loaves of bread cubed or approximately 40 oz of bread cubes
1 cup diced celery
1 cup diced onion
2 stick of butter
2 teaspoon sage
2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 cup chicken stock or turkey stock (add more as needed)
Step by Step Instructions:
First, toast your bread slices. Cube or tear apart the two loaves of bread into small pieces to make 10 cups of bread. Divide the bread equally into two large mixing bowls.
Next, dice 1 cup of onion and 1 cup of celery. Place in a microwave safe bowl and melt butter with the diced onion and celery.
You could also melt the butter into the celery and onions in large skillet on the stove over medium heat.
Split the butter, onion and celery mixture equally between the two bowls of bread.
Then, add salt, black pepper, poultry seasoning and sage into each bowl of stuffing mixture.
Next, add in just enough chicken broth to the stuffing mixture to wet it. Begin mixing the stuffing together with your hands.
Spray muffin tin with cooking spray and fill the muffin tins with the stuffing mixture. You can also form the stuffing mixture into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.
Bake the stuffing muffins at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until the muffins are golden brown.
Variations To Try:
- For a main dish or added protein, try adding sausage to make sausage stuffing muffins.
- Try a more crusty bread like artisan sourdough bread to give a crispier, crunchier texture (being sure to adjust the level of broth as needed).
- Use the stuffing mixture to make a Thanksgiving leftovers inspired casserole by adding shredded turkey, turkey gravy and stopping with cheese if desired.
Don’t Throw Away Your Food Scraps!
Reduce food waste by saving your onion peels, celery tops and turkey bones to make bone broth. Reducing food waste is the best way you can combat rising grocery costs.
Learn more about making bone broth from food scraps here.
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Better Than Stove Top Stuffing Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 loaves of bread cubed or approximately 40 oz of bread cubes
- 1 cup diced celery
- 1 cup diced onion
- 2 stick of butter
- 2 teaspoon sage
- 2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup chicken stock or turkey stock add more as needed
Instructions
- 1. Toast your bread slices and then cube or tear apart the two loaves of bread into small pieces to make 10 cups of bread. Divide the bread equally into two large mixing bowls.
- 2. Dice 1 cup of onion and 1 cup of celery. Place in a microwave safe bowl and melt butter with the diced onion and celery. Alternatively, you could melt the butter into the celery and onions in large skillet on the stove over medium heat.
- 3. Split the butter, onion and celery mixture equally between the two bowls of bread.
- 4. Add salt, black pepper, poultry seasoning and sage into each bowl of stuffing mixture.
- 5. Add in just enough chicken broth to the stuffing mixture to wet it and begin mixing the stuffing together with your hands.
6. Spray a muffin tin with cooking spray and fill the muffin tins with the stuffing mixture. Alternatively, form the stuffing mixture into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. - 7. Bake the stuffing muffins at 375 degrees until the muffins are golden brown and have crispy edges on the top of the bread and are cooked through, about 10-15 minutes.
Notes
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