There is no need to skip the stuffing this Thanksgiving since it’s made with keto bread! This flavorful and delicious keto sausage stuffing will definitely hit the spot.
I like these types of recipes because they really show you that you can make almost anything keto-friendly. All you really need to do is change a few simple ingredients. And you won’t be losing any flavors or textures – this stuffing will taste like traditional stuffing with a lot less calories and carbs.
Keto Sausage Stuffing
Start by preheating the oven to 350F. Place the bread cubes on a large sheet pan and place in oven. After 7 minutes, toss the bread around on the sheet pan. You want the bread to dry out, so check it at about 15 minutes and see if it’s dried.
While the bread is toasting, brown the sausage in a large skillet over high heat, for about 5-8 minutes until no longer pink. Next, transfer the meat into a large mixing bowl. In the same skillet you cooked the sausage in, melt ¼ cup butter over medium heat. Add the onion, celery, poultry seasoning and sage. Cook over medium heat until tender for about 10 minutes.
Now place the toasted bread cubes, onion mixture, salt and pepper into the mixing bowl with the sausage. Pour broth and the beaten eggs over the top. Gently toss together, coating all of the bread.
Place the stuffing mixture in the dish. Cube the remaining ¼ cup butter into small pieces and scatter over the top of the casserole. Cover the casserole with aluminum foil and bake for 35 minutes. Uncover and finish in the oven for an additional 10 minutes.
If you like the top of your stuffing to get crispy and crunchy, you can place the dish under the broiler for a couple of minutes. Yum!
Enjoy this keto sausage stuffing with your next holiday meal. I really like to cook with sausage because it’s so packed with flavors. From appetizers to sides, soups, and more, check out lots more sausage recipes here.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
🔪Prep 10mins
🔥Cook 1hr
⏱Total 1hr10mins
🍽Yield 12 people
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Ingredients
12 people
Instructions
7 steps
Preheat oven to 350F. Place the bread cubes on a large sheet pan and place in oven, for 15 minutes so that the bread can dry out. Toss once around 7 minutes.
While bread is toasting, brown sausage in a large skillet over high heat, for about 5-8 minutes until no longer pink. Once done, transfer the meat into a large mixing bowl.
Melt ¼ cup butter in the same skillet over medium heat. Add onion, celery, poultry seasoning and sage. Cook over medium heat until tender for about 10 minutes.
Place toasted bread cubes, onion mixture, salt and pepper into the mixing bowl containing the sausage. Pour broth and beaten eggs overtop and gently toss together coating all of the bread.
Place the mixture in a 9x9 baking dish or a 2-3 quart casserole dish. Cube the remaining ¼ cup butter into small pieces and scatter over the top of the casserole.
Cover the casserole with aluminum foil and bake for 35 minutes. Uncover and finish in the oven for an additional 10 minutes.
If you like crispy bits on your dressing, place under the broiler for 2-3 minutes.
3. Sausage. Sausage can be an excellent food for keto diet followers, but the key word is can. Several gourmet sausages including the smoked pork or beef bratwurst from our butcher shop, and the cheesy cheddar sausage, are keto-friendly because there are no fillers – just great meat.
Using finer-holed white bread instead of a more open-structured artisanal loaf means better flavor absorption and retention. Bread that's been dried out in a low oven is more absorbent than stale bread. A mixture of sage, sausage, onion, garlic, and celery lends this stuffing classic flavor.
It's totally fine and safe to eat up to 6 eggs a day while on the keto diet. You can consume even more eggs per day occasionally, as long as you make sure that you eat your greens, healthy fats and proteins from other sources.
Keto fruits by definition are low in carbohydrates. You still need to exercise portion control with most keto-friendly fruits to be within the limits of a keto diet. Keto-friendly fruits include avocados, watermelon, strawberries, lemons, tomatoes, raspberries, peaches, cantaloupe, star fruit, and blackberries.
Suitable to fill sausage with many kinds of meat mixtures. This vertical stuffer is made of metal structure and stainless steel cylinder that can be rotated in 90 degrees for easy filling and cleaning.
Coat the sausage stuffer tube with vegetable shortening. Then, gently place a casing onto the sausage stuffer tube, ensuring you leave approximately four inches to securely tie off one end. Using the food pusher, feed the meat down and into the casing until about 4-6 inches of the casing remains.
The BEST traditional Thanksgiving Stuffing recipe is easy to make dried bread cubes, sausage, diced vegetables, and chicken broth. It's a great side dish to make ahead of time and it definitely tastes best homemade!
Before starting, you should be aware that if you drop carbs cold-turkey, the first few days you will most likely experience symptoms of your body adjusting to lack of glucose. Many people starting off keto will go through this and it's often referred to as the “Keto Flu”.
Keto Net Carb Diet. On the ketogenic diet, the "net carb" is the amount of carbs in a food minus the fiber and sugar alcohol. Fiber and sugar alcohol are subtracted because the body does not fully absorb them. The keto net carb diet limits daily carbohydrate consumption to 20-50 grams to induce ketosis.
Cutting your carb intake is the best way to get into ketosis. Other actions, such as consuming MCT oil and exercising in a fasted state, may also help. Quick and easy methods, such as using special urine strips, can let you know whether you're maintaining ketosis or you need to make some adjustments to your diet.
Cornstarch. This is our binder! Cornstarch makes a great egg substitute in vegan baked goods. Turns out it's great for making an eggless stuffing as well!
Yes!You can absolutely make stuffing ahead of time. It's a great way to get a jumpstart on Thanksgiving cooking and it frees up much-needed oven space.
Fully cook raw meat, poultry, or seafood ingredients before adding to stuffing. Combine the ingredients and place them in your bird immediately before cooking. Don't stuff whole poultry with cooked stuffing. In addition to the turkey, the stuffing's center needs to reach 165 F.
I have a couple of keto-friendly brands of kielbasa that I like. Teton Waters Ranch is a good one and is available at many grocery stores, including Kroger. My husband picks up this organic smoked sausage from Kiolbassa at Costco. And Pedersons sells their no-sugar added kielbasa at Target and Natural Grocers.
Pork is also used to make many of our favorite fatty breakfast meats, like bacon and sausage — which you're free to enjoy on keto thanks to their low carb count and high fat content.
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