Easy Sourdough Stuffing

Classic recipe for sourdough stuffing that is easy, nourishing and full of flavor with significantly more digestibility and nutrition for your Thanksgiving holiday menu.

Sourdough stuffing is one way to easily upgrade the digestibility of the holiday menu. Best of all, it won’t require drastic changes on your part that take extra time and preparation.

I can virtually guarantee that your family and guests will barely notice the difference as the taste of the final dish is so similar to conventional recipes.

YOU will notice, though, because a more digestible meal means a higher likelihood that there will be at least a few takers for clean-up duty given that the entire group won’t be zonked out on the couch!

Ah yes. There is a method to the Traditional Cooking madness after all 🙂

Where to Find the Best Sourdough for Stuffing

Hands down, homemade sourdough bread makes the best traditionally-minded stuffing.

If you prefer to buy, beware as most commercially made sourdough bread is not authentic!

The good news is that there are small, family bakeries that will ship freshly baked, real sourdough bread right to your front door!

The small bakery I patronize that ships freshly baked bread to your door has several types of sourdough available at very reasonable prices.

• Rustic sourdough
• Oat sourdough
• Rye sourdough

The rustic sourdough is our family’s favorite.

Once you have your sourdough bread on hand, making the stuffing recipe below is a snap!

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Sourdough Stuffing Recipe

A classic recipe for sourdough stuffing that is as easy as conventional recipes but significantly more digestible adding more nutrition to your holiday menu.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword old fashioned, sourdough, traditional

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Servings 12

Calories 166 kcal

Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

• 1 loaf sourdough bread or equivalent in crusts
• 1/2 lb (225 grams) butter preferably grass-fed
• 1 yellow onion medium, finely chopped, preferably organic
• 1-2 cloves garlic pressed or crushed
• 6 sticks celery finely chopped, preferably organic
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• 6 bay leaves
• 1/8 tsp thyme
• 1/8 tsp sage
• 1/8 tsp oregano
• 1/8 tsp sweet basil
• 1/2 cup raisins optional

Instructions

1. Melt unsalted butter in a small saucepan at low heat. Crumble bread into breadcrumbs or use a food processor (this is the one I have). 

2. Mix all dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Thoroughly stir in onion, garlic, celery. Pour in melted butter and blend to completely distribute butter throughout.

3. You may use this mixture either as stuffing (inside the turkey) or as dressing (in a pan cooked separately).

4. Stuffing: Firmly pack handfuls of the mixture into turkey cavity and enclose and cook inside turkey until turkey is done. While turkey is resting after roasting, remove stuffing from cavity and place on serving dish.

5. Dressing: Fill baking dish, casserole, or bread pan with the mixture and press down firmly with hands to create an inch or two of a gap between the top of the dressing and top of the bread pan. Bake in the oven with or without turkey for 60 minutes (preferably at 325 F/160 C) and remove. It should be golden brown on top and moist but not wet inside.

6. Serve immediately. Once cooled, store in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Reheat as desired for delicious leftovers.

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Nutrition Facts

Sourdough Stuffing Recipe

Amount Per Serving (0.5 cup)

Calories 166 Calories from Fat 34

% Daily Value*

Fat 3.8g6%

Saturated Fat 2.4g12%

Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4g

Monounsaturated Fat 1g

Cholesterol 10mg3%

Sodium 170mg7%

Carbohydrates 29g10%

Fiber 1.25g5%

Protein 4g8%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.