Homemade Stuffing Recipe
How to make your own frugal stuffing to go with your Thanksgiving turkey!
Ingredients
- Bread at least 1/2 loaf of Homemade Bread
- 2 Apples any nice sweet variety
- 1 medium Onion
- 1 Egg
- Salt and pepper or any other spices you like
- 1 cup Rice uncooked
- 1 cup Chicken Broth
Instructions
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Start with a half loaf of fresh bread. Use one small loaf from the store if you don't have homemade. You want about 1 lb of bread in this recipe. Place pieces of the bread out on the countertop and let them begin to dry overnight.
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Once the bread is dry, break it into small pieces the size of croutons.
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If you don't have the time to let it dry, tear it into pieces first stick it in the oven for a little bit. Take it out when it's dry but not totally hard and crispy.
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Cook the rice. Try and use freshly cooked rice in this recipe, not day old rice so it won't get so hard.
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Use butter or oil and begin to fry a medium-sized onion in it.
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Cut up at least 1 or 2 medium sized apples. You won't need them just yet but you will in a minute.
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In a large bowl mix together your bread cubes and the cooked rice.
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In the meantime, your onions should be about cooked through by now so add in the apples and fry together. You don't want to fry the apples too long.
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In a small bowl, mix together the egg, chicken broth (about 1 c. or more depending on how moist you want the stuffing to be) and the salt or any spices you might like. We like to add sage.
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Pour the chicken broth/egg mixture over the bread and rice mixture. Let it soak in for a couple minutes.
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Add in the apple/onion mixture and mix together.
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Lightly grease a large cookie sheet and pour the whole mixture onto it. Bake it at 350F for about 20 minutes. You will want to use a spatula and stir it around occasionally. You want to watch it bake carefully because if you cook it too long it will get too dry.