Easy Turkey Stuffing

Prep 20 min
Total 20 min
Servings 18

Want to make great turkey stuffing? Here are the basics for how to make turkey stuffing with easy variations to make it your own. Gather your helpers around to chop up onion, celery, carrots, bread and parsley. Use Progresso™ chicken broth for a flavorful way to keep it moist. All that's left is to stuff your turkey and get ready to see delighted faces at the table. Enjoy!

By Betty Crocker Kitchens

Updated November 9, 2020

Make with

Progresso Broth

Ingredients

1/4

cup butter or margarine
1

medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
2

medium stalks celery, chopped (1 cup)
2

medium carrots, chopped (1 cup)
8

cups dry bread cubes (about 11 slices bread)
2

tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley, if desired
2

tablespoons poultry seasoning or dried sage leaves
1

teaspoon salt
1/4

teaspoon pepper
About 1/2 cup Progresso™ chicken broth (from 32-oz carton)

Steps

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1

In 10-inch skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add onion, celery and carrots; cook, stirring occasionally, until tender.
2

In large bowl, mix bread cubes, parsley, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. Add broth and butter-onion mixture, stirring until desired moistness (stuffing will become a little more moist during roasting because it will absorb juices from turkey).
3

Use to stuff 1 (14- to 18-lb) turkey. After stuffing turkey, place any remaining stuffing in 1- or 2-quart casserole that has been sprayed with cooking spray; cover and refrigerate. Bake stuffing in casserole with turkey for last 35 to 40 minutes of roasting time or until thoroughly heated.

Day-old soft bread cubes can be substituted for the dry bread cubes. Decrease the broth to about 1/4 cup.
Poultry seasoning is a blend of herbs and spices such as thyme, sage, marjoram, rosemary, black pepper and nutmeg. Each of these seasonings goes well with poultry; mixed together, the combination provides a subtle, complex flavor the individual seasonings do not have on their own.
Cornbread Stuffing: Use crumbled baked cornbread for part or all of the bread cubes. Decrease poultry seasoning to 1 teaspoon. Cornbread stuffing is also good with the sausage variation.
Mushroom Stuffing: Cook 1 cup sliced or chopped fresh or drained canned mushrooms with onion and celery. Oyster Stuffing: Simmer 1/2 to 1 pint (1 to 2 cups) oysters with liquor for about 5 minutes or until oysters are set; drain. Chop oysters; add to stuffing.
Sausage Stuffing: In 8-inch skillet, brown 1/2 lb pork sausage; drain, reserving drippings. Add sausage to the bread cube mixture. Decrease poultry seasoning to 1 teaspoon and salt to 1/4 teaspoon (sausage is highly seasoned). Drippings can be substituted for part of the butter used to cook the onion and celery.
Ready to change up your turkey stuffing recipe? Cranberry Stuffing adds a sweet-tart flavor for a fruity variation on a classic side dish.
Need to keep it gluten-free? Gluten-Free Cranberry Stuffing does the trick while still packing the recipe full of delicious cranberries and gluten-free bacon.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1/2 Cup

Calories: 70
Calories from Fat: 30

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 3g; 5%
Saturated Fat 2g 9% Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol: 5mg; 2%
Sodium: 280mg; 12%
Potassium: 40mg; 1%
Total Carbohydrate: 9g; 3%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 1g
Protein: 1g

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 2%; 2%
Vitamin C: 0%; 0%
Calcium: 4%; 4%
Iron: 4%; 4%

Exchanges:

1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choice

1/2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Come the end of November, turkey stuffing makes an appearance on dining room tables across the country. You can count on it to signal the official start of the holiday season, as it plays a supporting role next to the ever-impressive Thanksgiving turkey. For some, turkey is the star of the show. And for others, it’s the stuffing. If you’re a stuffing lover, this recipe makes it easy to indulge whenever the craving strikes. Do you consider yourself a true stuffing aficionado? Feast your eyes on a complete list of Betty’s stuffing and dressing recipes.