Light Herbed Bread Stuffing Recipe

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Recipe Makeover: Herbed Bread Stuffing with Mushrooms and Sausage

We've lightened this classic holiday dish so it has all the flavors you love and a lot less calories.

Making your own bread cubes is easy and yields delicious results. You can prepare the toasted bread cubes two to three days before Thanksgiving; store at room temperature in a zip-top plastic bag. If there's space in the oven, bake the stuffing while the turkey roasts. Otherwise, bake it in the morning, and reheat it while the turkey stands.


Preparation

Preheat oven to 400°.

Trim crust from bread. Cut bread into 1 1/2-inch cubes. Arrange bread cubes in a single layer on 2 jelly-roll pans. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes or until toasted.

Reduce oven temperature to 350°.

Cook sausage in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat 10 minutes, browning on all sides. Remove from pan; cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices.

Melt butter in skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms; sauté 4 minutes. Combine bread cubes, sausage, and mushrooms in a large bowl.

Heat skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add onion, carrot, and celery; sauté 5 minutes or until lightly browned. Add parsley, thyme, sage, salt, and pepper; sauté 1 minute. Add to bread mixture. Combine eggs and broth, stirring with a whisk. Add to bread mixture; toss to coat. Spoon into a 13 x 9-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until browned.
Nutritional Information

Calories: 208 (27% from fat)
Fat: 6.2g (sat 1.7g,mono 1.9g,poly 1.2g)
Protein: 13.6g
Carbohydrate: 25.9g
Fiber: 4.1g
Cholesterol: 68mg
Iron: 2mg
Sodium: 635mg
Calcium: 46mg

Diane Morgan, Cooking Light, NOVEMBER 2004

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[LoveCirculation]

I made this, it smelled and tasted heavenly.

[AHappySeeker]

@DrBones666 Do you actually understand what carbs are?

[DrBones666]

Bread is the worst ingredient. Better tons of salt than all those carbs. Stick to cooking and leave the preaching alone.

[TheTinydancer235]

Too talky to to the cooking!

[RedLaserBeams]

I tried this recipe and it was absolutely delicious. Thanks for the video :).

Pomona,Ca

[Eladrys]

Looks delicious, I hate that soggy mush they call stuffing.

[inu4moon4]

I love the classic traditional way of cooking. It's the holidays who cares if it has fat and sodium. Everything tastes better that way. But to each their own I guess. It looked good but doesn't look like a stuffing to me.

[meoynoratha]

Too big chunk of food dose not represent stuffing

[trevmiesterj]

@TwoTimesForever

Chill.

Its a different style of stuffing-chunky yes, but still likely good and lower in fat. Cooking Light is the sponsor, hence, cooking spray instead of a stick of butter.

[TwoTimesForever]

This is too chunky. Stuffing is supposed to be a cohesive blend of ingredients. I don't want to bite into a piece of sausage, then a piece of mushroom, then some bread. I want them together, hence why basically every other recipe calls for fine dicing and crumbling of the sausage. And who uses cooking spray to sautee vegetables? It looks dry and lumpy.