Apricot Turkey Stuffing

Name: Thermomix recipe: Apricot Turkey Stuffing
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 60 min
Ingredients: Handfuls flat leaf parsley; few sage leaves; 4 Tablespoons butter; 2 brown onion peeled and halved; 2 cloves garlic; few slices shortcut bacon; 12 apricots dried roughly chopped; 50 Grams dried cranberries (craisins); 80 Grams fresh breadcrumbs; pink salt flakes and cracked black pepper to taste; Pinches mixed spice; 3 eggs

Enought to stuff a very big bird Prep Time 5 minutes Cook Time 60 minutes Rated: Print

Why wait for Christmas before making this super-tasty apricot turkey stuffing. Also great with chicken, of course. Did I mention bacon? Yum!

Apricot Turkey Stuffing

When I lived in the USA I learnt to have a whole new appreciation for the art of stuffing. Yes, stuffing. I found it quite therapeutic to create a stuffing on the day of Thanksgiving, or Christmas for said turkey. It is about nuts, fruit, spices, stock, deep rich meaty flavours and most of all about cooking it before it gets inside the bird...and if it cannot fit inside the bird, you cook it like a casserole and eat it as a side dish. YES please. So delicious. So much a part of Christmas for me now, that I always, always make my own stuffing. If you wish to go gluten free, this is very easy, you can replace fresh bread crumbs with either cooked brown rice or quinoa. So go for it. Let your creative stuffing chef shine this year. Merry Christmix!

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Need

Handfuls flat leaf parsley
few sage leaves
4 Tablespoons butter BUY
2 brown onion peeled and halved
2 cloves garlic
few slices shortcut bacon
12 apricots dried roughly chopped
50 Grams dried cranberries (craisins)
80 Grams fresh breadcrumbs
pink salt flakes and cracked black pepper to taste BUY
Pinches mixed spice
3 eggs

Do

1: Preheat oven to 180ºC.
2: Place herbs into Thermomix bowl and chop 3 sec/speed 7.
3: Add butter, onions, garlic and bacon to Thermomix bowl and chop 3 sec/speed 6. Saute 5 min/Varoma/speed 1. Cool slightly.
4: Add remaining ingredients and mix 10 sec/Reverse/speed 8.
5: Butter 2 rectangles of foil. Roll cooled stuffing into sausage shapes and twist ends to tie.
6: Bake for 60 minutes or use to stuff a turkey, chicken or ham roll.

Always cool the stuffing completely before using in a turkey, chicken or ham roll. This prevents harmful bacteria.

This recipe can be pre-made and frozen - simply defrost from frozen, still in the foil by placing in a 130ºC oven for about 15 minutes.

Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!