This Easy Stuffing Recipe is the best! Made with dried bread cubes, celery, onion, herbs, chicken broth and butter then baked till golden perfection. 

What do you like better mashed potatoes or stuffing? I love mashed potatoes but I will always be true to stuffing! Not just any stuffing, I can’t stand the boxed stuff taste too mushy. This Easy Stuffing Recipe is my families favorite! Every year I Look forward to it, it is my favorite side dish!

Every year my mom would make this stuffing at thanksgiving and I can speak for my siblings when I say this stuffing is so dang delicious! I used 4 different breads whole wheat, white, French, and cinnamon raisin. I purchased all my bread from Trader Joes. You of corse can use whatever bread you like however I highly recommend you use cinnamon raisin and French or shepherds bread it taste so amazing in this stuffing!

Some stuffing recipes call for a lot of add ins like sausage, cranberries, carrots and eggs. Those are all great additions but nothing compares to the taste of classing stuffing. 

How To Make Stuffing

Making this stuffing recipe from scratch is not hard to do! The key is using very dry bread. You can let it go stale on its own but I like to dry mine out in the oven. 

•  Preheat your oven to 300 degrees F.
• Cube your bread and place on 2 rimmed baking sheets, let the bread dry out in the oven for 1 hour.
• Melt butter in a large skillet, add onion, celery, sage, and thyme. Cook on low till tender, do not brown, about 10 minutes. Add in chicken broth and 2 vegetarian bullion cubes. Stir till cubes are dissolved and turn off the heat. 
• Once the bread is dry place it into a large bowl, pour over your onion mixture, and gently toss. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Adjust oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
• Place mixture into a casserole baking dish. Bake for 35 minutes covered, uncover and bake for an additional 12-15 minutes. 

Can I make this vegan

• Yes absolutely, to do so you will need to sub the butter with your favorite vegan buttter and use veggie broth in place of the chicken broth. 

Cooks Tips

• If you want to use rosemary go ahead and add it into the onion mixture. I like mine without but if you love rosemary go ahead and add it in!
• Depending on the bread you use you may need to add more chicken broth to your stuffing. You will be able to taste and determine before baking. 
• So technically this is dressing since I don’t stuff it into my turkey but I just can’t shake the word stuffing!
• This Easy stuffing is our favorite so I make the most of this side dish cause LEFTOVERS! If your not feeding big crowd or just don’t want lots of leftovers feel free to cut this in half!

Love a savory side dish also try, Nutted Wild Rice Pilaf.

• Yield: 12-14

  Easy Stuffing Recipe

  

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  The Best Easy Stuffing Around! This stuffing is a crowd-pleaser and makes for amazing leftovers!

  Prep Time 1 hour

  Cook Time 45 minutes

  Total Time 55 minutes

  Ingredients

  • 10 slices of whole wheat bread
  • 12 pieces of white bread
  • 4 slices thick cinnamon raisin bread
  • 13 slices of French bread
  • { roughly 26 cups of bread cubes}
  • 5 celery stalks, diced
  • 2 small onions, diced
  • 1 cup of butter (2 sticks)
  • 2 tbsp fresh sage finely chopped
  • 1 tsp ground thyme
  • 5-6 cups chicken broth
  • 2 & 1/2 vegetarian/vegan bullion cubes, chicken bullion works great too
  • Fresh thyme leaves for garnish

  Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 300 degrees F.
     Cube your bread and place it on 2 rimmed baking sheets. Let the bread dry out in the oven for 1 hour.
  2. Melt butter in a large skillet, and add onion, celery, sage, and thyme. Cook on low till tender, do not brown, about 10 minutes. Add in chicken broth and bullion cubes. Stir till cubes are dissolved, and turn off the heat.
  3. Once the bread is dried, place it into a large bowl, pour over your onion mixture, and gently toss. Season with salt and pepper to taste. ;plo
  4. Adjust oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
  5. Place the mixture into a casserole dish. Bake for 35 minutes covered, uncover, and bake for an additional 12-15 minutes.
     

  Notes

  • If you want to use rosemary, add it to the onion mixture. I like mine without, but if you love rosemary, go ahead and add it in!
  • Depending on the bread you use, you may need to add more chicken broth to your stuffing. You will be able to taste and determine before baking. 
  • Technically this is dressing since I don't stuff it into my turkey, but I can't shake the word stuffing!
  • This Easy stuffing is our favorite, so I make the most of this side dish cause LEFTOVERS! If you're not feeding a big crowd or don't want lots of leftovers, feel free to cut this in half!

  Nutrition Information:

  Yield:

  14

  Serving Size:

  1
  Amount Per Serving: Calories: 406Total Fat: 12gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 26mgCarbohydrates: 62gFiber: 4gSugar: 7gProtein: 14g