Sausage Stuffing Bites
Created by LindasBusyKitchen on November 18, 2013
- Servings: 16-20
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 30m
- Recipe #11217
Ingredients
- 12 ounces pork sausage (uncooked, I use Jimmy Dean Original in the tube)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 3 celery stalks, chopped
- 1 teaspoon dried whole sage leaves, crushed
- Salt and pepper
- 8 cups bread, cubed (cut into 1/2-inch cubes (I use potato bread, but any kind will do)
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1/2 cup low-sodium chicken stock
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Step 2: Lightly grease a large baking sheet. Set aside.
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Step 3: In a large skillet brown sausage until just cooked through, breaking it up into pieces as it cooks. Transfer to a large bowl, and set aside.
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Step 4: In the same pan, add butter and cook until melted.
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Step 5: Add onion and celery and saute until just translucent, 6-7 minutes.
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Step 6: Add sage and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
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Step 7: Pour the onion mixture over the sausage.
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Step 8: Add bread cubes and stir.
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Step 9: Stir in the beaten eggs, then add the stock to moisten.
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Step 10: Form into 2 inch balls, and set on the baking sheet.
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Step 11: Bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown.
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Step 12: Serve warm.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (81.8 g)
- Calories 158.2
- Total Fat - 9 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.4 g
- Cholesterol - 44.3 mg
- Sodium - 343.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 13.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.1 g
- Sugars - 1.9 g
- Protein - 5.9 g
- Calcium - 76 mg
- Iron - 1.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg