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Healthy Home Economist / Recipes / Appetizer Recipes / Side Recipes / Easy Sourdough Stuffing

Easy Sourdough Stuffing

by Sarah Pope / Updated: Nov 25, 2021 / Affiliate Links ✔

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Classic recipe for sourdough stuffing that is easy and nourishing with significantly more digestibility and nutrition for your Holiday menu.

sourdough stuffing in a baking dish with a trussed turkey

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.

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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!

Sourdough Stuffing in a dish
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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
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 clove 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 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 mixing bowl. Thoroughly mix in onion, garlic, celery. Add melted butter and mix 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 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 with or without turkey for 60 minutes (preferably at 325F/160C) and remove. It should be golden brown on top and moist but not wet inside.

sourdough dressing on a platter with a turkey
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Category: Bread Recipes, Side Recipes, Turkey Recipes
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her eBooks Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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