This is basically the best stuffing you will ever make.
No question.
Seriously.
It just doesn’t get any better.
Chestnut, bacon and sage stuffing
A richly decadent stuffing for any fancy occasion but let's just say Christmas to fill this space.
Author: allconsuming from Donna Hay magazine, issue 78, Dec/Jan 2014-15
Ingredients
- 50g butter
- 1 large brown onion, finely chopped (the original says 2 small, which is just silly)
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 100 g rindless bacon, finely chopped
- ⅓ cup dry sherry
- ½ cup pitted dates, chopped
- 1 x 240g can cooked chestnuts, chopped
- ¼ cup slivered almonds, toasted and chopped
- 3 cups fresh breadcrumbs
- ¼ cup sage leaves, finely chopped (so much finely chopping!)
- ¼ cup parsley leaves, finely chopped
- 1 tsp finely grated lemon rind
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1tsp sea salt flakes
- 1 tsp cracked pepper
- 24 thin slices streaky bacon
- 1tbsp sherry
- 2tbsp honey
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C
- Melt the butter in a frying pan and then saute the onion, garlic and bacon for around 5 minutes or until soft
- Add the sherry and dates and cook for a further minute or so
- In a big bowl toss everything - EXCEPT the bacon, extra sherry and honey - together
- On a bench, pull out a long piece of foil - enough to lay the HALF the streaky bacon, slightly overlapping, on
- Then do the same with a piece of baking paper and lay that on top of the foil
- Place 12 slices of bacon on the baking paper, slightly overlapping each other
- You still with me?
- Place half the stuffing at one end of the bacon and then, using the baking paper/foil to help you, roll up into a log
- Tip for new players, don't roll the paper foil inside the log as you go, use it as you would a sushi mat rolling up... sushi
- Then wrap the foil/baking paper around the log and place on a baking tray
- Do the second one
- Bake for 20 minutes
- Take out of the oven and carefully remove the wrapping
- Keep on the tray
- Brush over the sherry and honey, which you have mixed together
- Bake for a further 20 minutes or until the bacon is nice and crisp
- * you can prepare this two days ahead and keep in the fridge until ready to cook on Christmas day
- * you can add it to the oven at the final 40 mins of cooking time of your ham/pork/chicken/turkey
The post Chestnut, bacon and sage stuffing appeared first on allconsuming.
