costarica
Assistant Cook
Has anyone ever baked stuffing in their Nesco/Rival. If so how did it turn out. I want to roast my Turkey in the oven, but don 't want to stuff it, so I am going to do the stuffing in the Nesco/Rival.
Has anyone ever baked stuffing in their Nesco/Rival. If so how did it turn out. I want to roast my Turkey in the oven, but don 't want to stuff it, so I am going to do the stuffing in the Nesco/Rival.
I've never heard of crock pot stuffing, Katie! When I googled it, there were so many versions! Would you be willing to share yours?...I have a wonderful stuffing recipe I make in the crock-pot...
It is unstuffed stuffing.Now, ya'll are talking about dressing, not stuffing. It's only stuffing if it's in the bird.
It is unstuffed stuffing.
I use the Julia Child method, in my Nesco-type turkey roaster. It includes a double recipe of my world famous Sausage, Apple, and Fennel Corn Bread Stuiffing:
Ingredients:
1 day-old cast iron skillet cornbread
2 tsp light olive oil
6 ounces bulk Italian sausage
2 cups onion, finely chopped
1 bay leaf
1 large Granny Smith apple, diced
½ cup diced celery
½ cup diced fennel bulb
1 tsp garlic, minced
½ tsp poultry seasoning
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp fresh ground black pepper
¼ tsp crushed red pepper
1½ cups turkey stock
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
Instructions:
Heat the olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the sausage and saute it until browned, stirring occasionally. Add the onion and bay leaf and cook until the onion starts to brown, stirring occasionally. Add the apple, celery, and fennel and continue to saute for 5 minutes. Add the garlic and the next 5 ingredients (through black pepper) and saute 1 minute more. Remove the sausage mixture from the heat and discard the bay leaf. Cool the sausage mixture to room temperature.
Crumble the corn bread into a large bowl. Add the cooled sausage mixture to the bowl and toss to combine. Add the broth and 2 eggs to the bowl and toss to combine. Place the dressing into the bottom of the turkey roaster, arrange the turkey pieces on top of the stuffing to cover and cook as directed in the America's Test Kitchen video.
Now, ya'll are talking about dressing, not stuffing. It's only stuffing if it's in the bird.
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I think it will be fine. The Nesco is a wonder! You could even cook your turkey in it. I usually make my stuffing in the microwave. It's just reheated bread, so nothing to worry about.
Okay, I'll bite..what is a Nesco??
We like how the drippings flavor the stuffing ingredients, including puffing up the raisins that DH likes, so I always stuff my bird. I don't use meat and I make it right before I stuff and roast the turkey, so it's already cooked through when it goes in the oven.
Even stuffing that's cooked through before it goes in needs to be cooked to 365 degrees because it gets contaminated with bacteria when it goes into the bird.