Giblet stuffing, a classic Thanksgiving side dish, is a savory mixture of giblets, vegetables, herbs, and spices that is typically stuffed inside the turkey before roasting. The giblets, which include the turkey's heart, liver, and gizzard, add a rich, flavorful depth to the stuffing, while the vegetables, herbs, and spices provide a variety of textures and flavors. This recipe provides detailed instructions for making a traditional giblet stuffing, as well as three variations: a sausage and apple stuffing, a cornbread stuffing, and a wild rice stuffing. Each variation offers a unique twist on the classic dish, ensuring that there is a stuffing to suit everyone's taste. Whether you are a seasoned cook or a beginner in the kitchen, this article will guide you through the process of making a delicious and memorable giblet stuffing that will be the star of your Thanksgiving feast.
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ROAST TURKEY WITH HERBED BREAD STUFFING AND GIBLET GRAVY
Categories Poultry turkey Roast Thanksgiving Stuffing/Dressing Fall Gourmet
Yield Makes 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Make turkey giblet stock and herbed bread stuffing.
- Roast turkey:
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Rinse turkey inside and out and pat dry. Season with salt and pepper inside and out. Loosely fill neck cavity with some of stuffing. Fold neck skin under body and fasten with a small skewer. Loosely fill body cavity with some stuffing and tie drumsticks together with kitchen string. Transfer remaining stuffing to a buttered 3-quart shallow baking dish and chill, covered. Secure wings to body with small skewers if desired for a nicer appearance.
- Put turkey on a rack set in a flameproof roasting pan. Roast turkey in middle of oven 30 minutes. Melt 1/2 stick butter. Reduce oven temperature to 325°F and pour melted butter over turkey. Roast turkey, basting every 20 minutes, for 3 to 3 1/2 hours more, or until a thermometer inserted in center of stuffing in body cavity registers 165°F (thigh will be about 180°F). Transfer turkey to a heated platter and keep juices in pan. Remove skewers and discard string. Transfer stuffing from cavities to a serving dish and keep warm, covered. Let turkey stand at least 30 minutes and up to 45.
- Increase temperature to 375°F. Stir together chicken broth and water and drizzle over uncooked stuffing in baking dish. Dot stuffing with remaining 2 tablespoons butter and bake in middle of oven 40 minutes while turkey stands; for moist stuffing, bake covered entire time; for less moist stuffing with a slightly crisp top, uncover after 10 minutes.
- Make gravy:
- Skim fat from pan juices and reserve 1/4 cup fat. Add 1 cup giblet stock to roasting pan and deglaze over moderately high heat, scraping up brown bits. Add to remaining 3 cups stock and bring to a simmer. Whisk together reserved fat and flour in a large heavy saucepan and cook roux over moderately low heat, whisking, 3 minutes. Add hot stock to roux in a fast stream, whisking constantly to prevent lumps, and simmer, whisking occasionally, until thickened, about 10 minutes. Stir in additional juices from turkey platter and season gravy with salt and pepper.
OLD FASHIONED GIBLET STUFFING
If you like an old fashioned stuffing, then this one's for you.
Provided by BURPS
Categories Side Dish Stuffing and Dressing Recipes Bread Stuffing and Dressing Recipes
Time 50m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Chop giblets and cook in butter in a medium skillet over medium heat, 2 minutes. Stir in celery and onion and cook until tender, but not brown. Remove from heat and stir in salt, pepper and poultry seasoning.
- Place bread crumbs in a large bowl. Toss with giblet mixture and enough broth to lightly moisten the bread. Use stuffing to stuff an 18 pound turkey, or bake separately, in a 2 quart dish, covered, 40 to 45 minutes in a 375 degree F (190 degree C) oven.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 243.3 calories, Carbohydrate 20 g, Cholesterol 117.1 mg, Fat 14.1 g, Fiber 1.2 g, Protein 9.1 g, SaturatedFat 7.9 g, Sodium 478.9 mg, Sugar 2.4 g
HOMEMADE GIBLET STUFFING FOR TURKEY OR CHICKEN
In my photo you will notice a darker portion of the stuffing; this was the bit that was stuffed into the turkey itself and after roasting it has a crispy outside coating. This is a delicious savoury stuffing that I make every year for Thanksgiving. During the year I love to make it with a whole chicken minus the giblets as I can't find chickens that come with giblets in the UK. It's fantastic and whatever doesn't fit in the bird you can bake on the side. Note: I sometimes like to use a mixture of white and brown bread in this recipe. NOTE: Since the giblets will take a while you can do everything else while they are cooking.
Provided by Summerwine
Categories Whole Chicken
Time 3h20m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Separate the neck from the rest of the giblets. Put remaining giblets into a covered container and put in the fridge for now.
- Put the neck ONLY from the giblets into a full pan of salted boiling water. Bring to a boil agian, cover, turn down to a simmer cook for 1 1/2 hours until the meat is fall off the bone tender, making sure to keep check on the water level throughout.
- Add the remaining giblets to the neck in the water and cook for a further 1/2 hour.
- Drain giblets; reserving liquid.
- Chop up the giblets into small pieces.
- Cover tightly and set aside (if using immediately) or refrigerate until ready to use in the recipe (can be done the day before).
- While the giblets are cooking the rest of instructions follow:.
- Preheat the oven to 350F degrees.
- Slice the bread into 1/2 inch cubes.
- Place the cubed bread onto a ungreased dry cookie sheet and toss with the dried herbs and spices.
- Bake seasoned bread cubes in the oven turning frequently (approximately every 5 minutes) until golden brown and crisp, about 20 minutes or so depending on how moist your bread cubes are.
- While the bread cubes are in the oven, saute the celery, onion and garlic in the butter until tender.
- Remove bread cubes from oven, leave to cool until crisp.
- Mix he celery, onion, garlic mixture into the cooled dried bread cubes. Mixing thoroughly.
- Add chopped giblets to the mix.
- Add the beaten eggs to the mixture, again mixing thoroughly.
- Mix reserved liquid from the giblets and combine with chicken broth to make 1 cup.
- Carefully add the chicken broth to your desired consistency. (Remember, if you are stuffing the bird it will take on more moisture so be careful how moist you want your stuffing at this stage).
- Stuff your bird, making sure not to pack it in to tightly and don't forget to pack a little in the neck cavity.
- Put the remainer of the stuffing into a generously buttered casserole dish and bake for 1/2 hour at 350°F (covered with foil for moist stuffing and uncovered if you want a crispy top).
Nutrition Facts : Calories 254.6, Fat 7.9, SaturatedFat 3.5, Cholesterol 72.2, Sodium 864, Carbohydrate 37.5, Fiber 2.7, Sugar 4.2, Protein 8.3
ROAST TURKEY WITH HERBED BREAD STUFFING AND GIBLET GRAVY
Make and share this Roast Turkey With Herbed Bread Stuffing and Giblet Gravy recipe from Food.com.
Provided by lazyme
Categories Whole Turkey
Time 3h50m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Make turkey giblet stock and herbed bread stuffing.
- Roast turkey:.
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Rinse turkey inside and out and pat dry.
- Season with salt and pepper inside and out.
- Loosely fill neck cavity with some of stuffing.
- Fold neck skin under body and fasten with a small skewer.
- Loosely fill body cavity with some stuffing and tie drumsticks together with kitchen string.
- Transfer remaining stuffing to a buttered 3-quart shallow baking dish and chill, covered.
- Secure wings to body with small skewers if desired for a nicer appearance.
- Put turkey on a rack set in a flameproof roasting pan.
- Roast turkey in middle of oven 30 minutes.
- Melt 1/2 stick butter.
- Reduce oven temperature to 325°F and pour melted butter over turkey.
- Roast turkey, basting every 20 minutes, for 3 to 3 1/2 hours more, or until a thermometer inserted in center of stuffing in body cavity registers 165°F (thigh will be about 180°F).
- Transfer turkey to a heated platter and keep juices in pan.
- Remove skewers and discard string.
- Transfer stuffing from cavities to a serving dish and keep warm, covered.
- Let turkey stand at least 30 minutes and up to 45.
- Increase temperature to 375°F
- Stir together chicken broth and water and drizzle over uncooked stuffing in baking dish.
- Dot stuffing with remaining 2 tablespoons butter and bake in middle of oven 40 minutes while turkey stands; for moist stuffing, bake covered entire time; for less moist stuffing with a slightly crisp top, uncover after 10 minutes.
- Make gravy:.
- Skim fat from pan juices and reserve 1/4 cup fat.
- Add 1 cup giblet stock to roasting pan and deglaze over moderately high heat, scraping up brown bits.
- Add to remaining 3 cups stock and bring to a simmer.
- Whisk together reserved fat and flour in a large heavy saucepan and cook roux over moderately low heat, whisking, 3 minutes.
- Add hot stock to roux in a fast stream, whisking constantly to prevent lumps, and simmer, whisking occasionally, until thickened, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in additional juices from turkey platter and season gravy with salt and pepper.
- Note:.
- If you choose not to cook your stuffing inside the bird, your turkey will take less time to roast, only about 2 to 3 hours (thigh should register 170°F).
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1362.9, Fat 72.4, SaturatedFat 23.4, Cholesterol 563.1, Sodium 541.2, Carbohydrate 3, Fiber 0.1, Protein 162.9
GIBLET STUFFING
The bag o' giblets grosses out many the novice cook, but these innards really do make a tasty stuffing for poultry.
Provided by Timothy H.
Categories Poultry
Time 2h30m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Take the giblets out of the cavity of the turkey.Take the neck of the turkey and chop into 2-inch pieces.Trim the liver and put it in the refrigerator.
- Heat 1 tablespoons vegetable oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Add the turkey neck pieces, the heart and the gizzard. Sauté for about 10 minutes, or until everything is brown on all sides.Quarter an onion and add along with carrot, chicken broth and enough cold water to cover the giblet mixture by 1 inch.
- Bring to a simmer.Skim foam that rises to the surface off the top of the mixture.Add thyme, salt and peppercorns.Reduce heat to low and simmer with saucepan partially covered, about 2 hours.Add the turkey liver and simmer an additional 15 to 20 minutes.Strain mixture and reserve stock if you want to use it for something else (like the gravy).
- Otherwise, toss it.Cool the giblets.Pull the meat off the turkey neck with your hands.Chop the neck meat, heart, gizzard and liver and set aside.Chop remaining onion.In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Add onion and celery and cook 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.Place vegetables and butter in a mixing bowl and add bread and parsley.
- Drizzle enough stock over the bread mixture until it is just moist. Season with poultry seasoning, salt and pepper to taste.Gently toss in reserved neck meat, heart, gizzard and liver.Use to stuff a turkey, or place in a casserole dish, pour an extra 1/2 cup stock over the top, and bake, covered, in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes, or until hot.
ROAST TURKEY WITH COUNTRY HAM STUFFING AND GIBLET GRAVY
Categories turkey Bake Roast Sauté Thanksgiving Stuffing/Dressing Ham Chill Gourmet
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Make the stuffing:
- In a shallow baking pan arrange the bread cubes in one layer, bake them in a preheated 325°F. oven, stirring occasionally, for 10 to 15 minutes, or until they are golden, and transfer them to a large bowl. In a large skillet sauté the ham in the butter over moderately high heat, stirring occasionally, for 5 to 10 minutes, or until it is deep red and the edges are crisp, and transfer it with a slotted spoon to the bowl. To the fat remaining in the skillet add the onions, the celery, the sage, and the thyme, cook the mixture over moderate heat, stirring, until the onions are softened, and transfer it to a bowl. Toss the stuffing well, season it with salt and pepper and let it cool completely. The stuffing may be made 1 day in advance and kept covered and chilled. (To prevent bacterial growth do not stuff the turkey cavities in advance.)
- Rinse the turkey, pat it dry, and season it inside and out with salt and pepper. Pack the neck cavity loosely with some of the stuffing, fold the neck skin under the body, and fasten it with a skewer. Pack the body cavity loosely with some of the remaining stuffing and truss the turkey. Transfer the remaining stuffing to a buttered 2-quart baking dish and reserve it, covered and chilled.
- Spread the turkey with 1/2 stick of the butter and roast it on a rack in a roasting pan in a preheated 425°F. oven for 30 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 325°F., baste the turkey with the pan juices, and drape it with a piece of cheesecloth, soaked in the remaining 1 stick butter, melted and cooled. Add the water to the pan and roast the turkey, basting it every 20 minutes, for 2 1/2 to 3 hours more, or until a meat thermometer inserted in the fleshy part of a thigh registers 180°F. and the juices run clear when the thigh is pierced with a skewer. During the last 1 1/2 hours of roasting, drizzle the reserved stuffing with the stock, bake it, covered, in the 325°F. oven for 1 hour, and bake it, uncovered, for 1/2 hour more. Discard the cheesecloth and string from the turkey, transfer the turkey to a heated platter, reserving the juices in the roasting pan, and keep it warm, covered loosely with foil.
- Make the gravy:
- Skim all of the fat from the roasting pan juices, reserving 1/3 cup of the fat, add the wine to the pan, and deglaze the pan over moderately high heat, scraping up brown bits. Boil the mixture until it is reduced by half. In a saucepan combine the reserved fat and the flour and cook the roux over moderately low heat, whisking, for 3 minutes. Add the stock and the wine mixture in a stream, whisking, and simmer the gravy, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes. Add the reserved cooked giblets and neck meat, chopped, and salt and pepper to taste, simmer the gravy for 2 minutes, and transfer it to a heated sauceboat.
- Garnish the turkey with the sage leaves and serve it with the gravy and the stuffing.
VARIATIONS ON STUFFING 101: GIBLET STUFFING
Steps:
- Use the giblets from your turkey. With a heavy cleaver or large knife, chop the turkey neck into 2 to 3-inch pieces. Trim the liver and refrigerate (if it is added to the broth too soon, the liver will overcook and make the broth bitter). In a large saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Add the neck, heart, and gizzard and brown on all sides, about 10 minutes. Stir in 1 quartered small onion and 1 coarsely chopped small carrot. Add a 13 3/4-ounce can reduced-sodium chicken broth and enough cold water to cover the giblets by 1 inch. Bring to a simmer, skimming off the foam that rises to the surface. Add 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 8 peppercorns. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, partially covered until the giblets are very tender, about 2 hours. Add the turkey liver and simmer until cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes. Strain, reserving the stock, if desired. Cool the giblets. Pull the meat off the neck. Chop the neck meat, heart, gizzard, and liver. Stir into he Bread Stuffing 101 along with the bread cubes.
WILD GOOSE WITH GIBLET STUFFING
This recipe is one of our favorite ways to prepare goose and it's especially nice for the holidays. My husband does a lot of hunting, so I'm always looking for new ways to fix game. - Louise Laginess, East Jordan, Michigan
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 3h
Yield 6-8 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Rub inside goose cavity with lemon and salt; set aside. In a saucepan, cook giblets in water until tender, about 20-30 minutes., Remove giblets with a slotted spoon and reserve liquid. Chop giblets and place in a large bowl with the cornbread, apples, onion, parsley, sage, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Add enough of the reserved cooking liquid to make a moist stuffing; toss gently. Stuff the body and neck cavity; truss openings. Place goose, breast side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Spread with softened butter., Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 25 minutes per pound or until fully cooked and tender. If goose is an older bird, add 1 cup of water to pan and cover for the last hour of baking.
Nutrition Facts :
Tips:
- Make sure the giblets are clean: Remove any excess fat or connective tissue from the giblets before cooking. This will help to ensure that the stuffing is not greasy or chewy.
- Cook the giblets until they are tender: Overcooked giblets will be tough and chewy. Simmer them in water or broth until they are cooked through but still slightly firm.
- Chop the giblets finely: This will help them to distribute evenly throughout the stuffing. You can also grind the giblets in a food processor if you prefer.
- Use a variety of seasonings: Sage, thyme, rosemary, and pepper are all classic giblet stuffing seasonings. However, you can also use other herbs and spices that you like. For a richer flavor, add a splash of white wine or chicken broth to the stuffing.
- Don't overstuff the turkey: The stuffing should be loosely packed so that it has room to expand during cooking. Otherwise, it will become dense and gummy.
Conclusion:
Giblet stuffing is a delicious and traditional side dish for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. It is easy to make and can be customized to your own taste. With a few simple tips, you can make the perfect giblet stuffing that your family and friends will love.
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