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Sausage Stuffing with Fennel and Roasted Squash

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Sausage Stuffing with Fennel and Roasted Squash

Sausage Stuffing with Fennel and Roasted Squash

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Equipment

  • Electric Kitchen Sausage Stuffer - A versatile tool for stuffing sausages, ensuring uniform size and consistent taste with a range of feed tube sizes suitable for various meat grinders and casings.

  • Digital Food Scale - Provides accurate measurements for ingredients crucial for the balance of flavors and textures in your stuffing mixture.

  • Mandoline Slicer - Efficiently slices fennel into uniform pieces, enhancing aesthetic appeal and even cooking of squash and other components.

  • Chef's Knife - Essential for chopping vegetables like onions and garlic that will be part of your sausage stuffing mix.

  • Cutting Board - Safe surface to chop, dice, and prepare ingredients without cross-contamination.

  • Roasting Pan with Rack - Allows roasting squash until tender for a rich base in your stuffing, ensuring even cooking.

  • Mixing Bowls (Large Capacity) - Necessary for combining ingredients like fennel, sausage meat, and other components of the stuffing mix.

  • Piping Bags - Used for efficient and mess-free filling of casings with your prepared mixture to ensure uniformity in each sausage.

  • Meat Grinder (optional) - If making fresh pork sausages from scratch, needed for processing meats before stuffing.

  • Oven-Safe Ramekin or Dish - Useful for pre-portioning and baking individual servings of your finished stuffed sausages if desired.

Ingredients

  • Nonstick vegetable oil spray

  • 4 cups 1/2- to 3/4-inch cubes peeled seeded butternut squash (from one 13/4-pound squash)

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter

  • 3 cups chopped onions (about 1 pound)

  • 2 cups chopped celery (4 to 5 stalks)

  • 1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped fresh fennel bulb (about 1 medium)

  • 1 1-pound pork sausage log

  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley

  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh sage

  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh marjoram

  • 12 cups (generous) 1-inch cubes day-old pain rustique or ciabatta bread with crust (about 1 1/4 pounds)

  • 2 large eggs

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt

  • 1 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper

  • 1 cup (or more) low-salt chicken broth

Instructions

1

Instruction 1

Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray rimmed baking sheet with nonstick spray. Scatter squash on sheet in single layer; sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper. Roast squash until tender, stirring occasionally, about 55 minutes. Transfer to large bowl; cool.
2

Instruction 2

Melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add onions, celery, and fennel. Sauté 8 minutes. Add sausage. Sauté until vegetables are tender and sausage is cooked through, breaking up sausage with fork, about 10 minutes. Add all herbs; sauté 1 minute longer. Add to bowl with squash. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cool, cover, and chill.
3

Instruction 3

Preheat oven to 350°F. Divide bread between 2 rimmed baking sheets. Bake until bread is crusty but not hard, reversing sheets after 5 minutes, 10 to 12 minutes total. Transfer to very large bowl and cool.
4

Instruction 4

Butter 13x9x2-inch baking dish. vegetable mixture into bread. Whisk salt, and pepper in small bowl to blend whisk in 1 cup broth. Add egg mixture stuffing, tossing to combine evenly and adding more broth by 1/4 cupfuls if dry. Transfer stuffing to prepared dish.
5

Instruction 5

Bake stuffing uncovered until cooked through and brown and crusty on top, 60 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes.
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