Giblet stuffing, a traditional side dish for holiday dinners, is a flavorful and savory stuffing made from the giblets of poultry, such as chicken, turkey, or duck. The giblets, which include the heart, liver, and gizzard, are simmered in broth until tender, then chopped and combined with a mixture of bread cubes, vegetables, herbs, and spices. This stuffing can be cooked inside the bird or baked separately in a casserole dish. In addition to the classic giblet stuffing recipe, this article also includes variations such as cornbread giblet stuffing, oyster giblet stuffing, and vegetarian giblet stuffing. Each recipe provides detailed instructions and ingredient measurements, ensuring a delicious and memorable side dish for your next special occasion meal.
Here are our top 7 tried and tested recipes!
OLD FASHIONED STUFFING
This is my grandmother's old-fashioned bread stuffing recipe. It may be cooked as directed, or inside the turkey. It's enough to stuff a very large bird.
Provided by LYNN BECKER
Categories Side Dish Stuffing and Dressing Recipes Bread Stuffing and Dressing Recipes
Time P1DT1h15m
Yield 24
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Allow the toasted bread to sit approximately 24 hours, until hard.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
- Crush the bread into crumbs with a rolling pin. Place the crumbs in a large bowl.
- Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the onion and celery and slowly cook until soft. Remove from heat and drain.
- Mix the eggs and chicken broth into the bread crumbs. The mixture should be moist, but not mushy. Use water, if necessary, to attain desired consistency. Mix in the onion, celery, rubbed sage, garlic powder, salt and pepper.
- Press the mixture into the baking dish. Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until the top is brown and crisp.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 101.2 calories, Carbohydrate 16.7 g, Cholesterol 18 mg, Fat 2.4 g, Fiber 0.9 g, Protein 3 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Sodium 228.4 mg, Sugar 1.7 g
VERY OLD FASHIONED GIBLET DRESSING (FOR TURKEY)
This is the way my grandmother and my mother made dressing for Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are certainly more "fashionable" ways to make it these days. But nothing reminds me of home and family more than the taste of my traditional dressing with the meal.
Provided by Linda Hoover
Categories Side Casseroles
Time 3h
Number Of Ingredients 24
Steps:
- 1. CROUTONS: I make these the day before so that I am not sweating my time in the kitchen.
- 2. Cut bread slices into bite size pieces. Place in 2 9x13 cake pans ( you will need to toss these several times so its easier to not overcrowd them).
- 3. Melt butter and all the rest of the Crouton ingredients in a sauce pan. I get it warm then turn off the heat while I finish cutting bread.
- 4. Pour the melted butter mix over the bread in each pan. Toss throughly so that the butter mix is distributed over the whole pan of bread. If the bread is still dry you can drizzle a little olive oil over it to extend the butter.
- 5. Bake at 300 for about 1 hour, tossing the croutons every 20 min for even drying and browning. These should come out very toasty and tasty!
- 6. GIBLETS AND JUICE: I start this as soon as the turkey goes into the oven.
- 7. Put the CROUTONS into a large lasagna pan (mine is 11x15)
- 8. Dump everything in a saucepan, make sure that the neck and giblets are covered in liquid. Boil for 20 min. Turn off heat and let set until cool to the touch.
- 9. Reserve the liquid. Remove neck and giblets. Take all the meat off the neck and put into the CROUTONS.
- 10. I used to mince all the giblets but now I take the easy way out. Throw the heart, stomach and liver into a food processor and whir till small chunks or pasty (your taste). Dump this into the CROUTONS.
- 11. Dump chopped vegetables into the CROUTONS. Toss, stir, mix up ... you know what I mean. Add the reserved giblet/neck broth to this until it is moist. If you have used all the broth and the croutons are not moist enough you can either add olive oil chicken/turkey broth or melt a stick of butter and use that.
- 12. Bake for an hour at 325 (with the turkey) or 30-40 min at 400, you want the vegetables to be tender and the croutons to be semi-dry.
OLD FASHIONED STUFFING WITH GIBLETS
When cooking properly, stuffing with giblets can be quite delicious! With the right amount of spices and fresh ingredients, this dish can turn to be the star of your Holiday dinner!
Provided by Francine Lizotte
Categories Other Side Dishes
Time 2h55m
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- 1. Place neck and giblets (except liver which is brown and soft) in a saucepan. Add 2/3 water, lots of sea salt, onion, garlic, lots of sage and pepper. Simmer over medium heat for about 2 to 2 ½ hours.
- 2. About half an hour before turkey is ready, add liver to saucepan.
- 3. Meanwhile, in a microwavable bowl, add croutons, chicken broth, parsley, sage, basil, oregano, pepper, garlic, celery stick, and onion. Strain turkey giblets and cut in very small pieces. Mix minced giblets with croutons mixture. Put in microwave, cover with Saran Wrap®, for 2 minutes at high; after 40 seconds in the microwave, mix well and put it back for the remaining time.
- 4. To view this recipe on YouTube, click on this link >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xous0nYaEoo
BASIC OLD-FASHIONED GIBLET GRAVY RECIPE - (4.8/5)
Provided by á-2225
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Remove liver from giblets and refrigerate. Place giblets in saucepan, cover with 4 cups cold water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for about an hour. Now add the liver and simmer for another 30 minutes. Drain in a colander, allow to cool, chop and set aside. Melt butter in a heavy saucepan and stir in the flour. Cook and stir for 3 to 5 minutes, or until butter barely begins to turn golden. Slowly stir in drippings or chicken broth and milk or half and half. Continue cooking and stirring until thickened. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in hard-cooked eggs and chopped giblets and serve. Makes 3 cups.
CLASSIC GIBLET STUFFING
Bake this Classic Giblet Stuffing in a casserole dish for a delicious Thanksgiving dinner side dish. Turkey giblet gravy adds rich flavor to each bite. If you prefer a turkey-free stuffing recipe, try our variations that call for oysters or chestnuts.
Provided by BHG Test Kitchen
Time 1h10m
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Rinse giblets. Refrigerate liver until needed. In a small saucepan cook the remaining giblets, covered, in enough boiling water to cover for 1 hour. Add liver. Simmer, covered, for 20 to 30 minutes more or until tender. Drain* and chop giblets; set aside.
- In the same saucepan cook celery and onion in hot butter over medium heat until tender but not brown; remove from heat. Stir in giblets, sage, pepper, and salt. Place dry bread cubes in a very large bowl; add the onion mixture. Drizzle with enough broth to moisten, tossing lightly to combine.
- Use bread mixture to stuff one 8- to 10-pound turkey. (See stuffing tips and roasting chart for doneness temperatures and roasting times.) Place any remaining stuffing in a 1-quart casserole. (If necessary, to moisten, add more broth to stuffing in casserole.) Cover and chill until ready to bake.
- Bake stuffing in casserole alongside turkey during the last 35 to 40 minutes of roasting time or until heated through. Or place all of stuffing in a 2-quart casserole. Bake, covered, in a 325 degree F oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until heated through. Makes 10 to 12 servings.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 189 kcal, Carbohydrate 16 g, Cholesterol 62 mg, Protein 5 g, SaturatedFat 6 g, Sodium 379 mg, Sugar 1 g, Fat 11 g, UnsaturatedFat 4 g
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.
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
Tips:
- Use fresh giblets. Fresh giblets will give your stuffing the best flavor. If you can't find fresh giblets, you can use frozen giblets, but be sure to thaw them completely before using them.
- Cook the giblets thoroughly. Giblets should be cooked until they are tender and no longer pink in the center. This will help to ensure that they are safe to eat.
- Don't overcook the giblets. If you overcook the giblets, they will become tough and chewy. Cook them just until they are tender.
- Use a variety of vegetables in your stuffing. This will give your stuffing a more complex flavor and texture. Some good vegetables to use include celery, onion, carrots, and mushrooms.
- Use a good quality bread for your stuffing. The bread is one of the main ingredients in stuffing, so it's important to use a good quality bread. Use a bread that is firm enough to hold its shape, but not too dry.
- Season your stuffing well. Stuffing should be well-seasoned with salt, pepper, and other herbs and spices. This will help to bring out the flavor of the other ingredients.
- Cook the stuffing until it is golden brown. This will give the stuffing a nice crispy texture and help to keep it from becoming soggy.
Conclusion:
Old-fashioned giblet stuffing is a classic Thanksgiving dish that is sure to please everyone at your table. It is easy to make and can be tailored to your own taste. With a few simple tips, you can make the perfect giblet stuffing that will be the star of your Thanksgiving meal.
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