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Cornbread and Dried Fruit Dressing

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes

Servings

6 Servings

Ingredients

  • 4 cup cornbread cubes dried
  • 4 ounce lean Italian turkey sausage casing removed
  • 1 tablespoon canola oil
  • 1 cup chopped yellow or white onions
  • 1/4 cup chopped celery
  • 1/4 cup chopped carrot
  • 1 small garlic clove crushed
  • 4 each dried apricots and pitted dried plums coarsely chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 3/4 teaspoon dried sage
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried marjoram
  • 1 cup fat-free low-sodium chicken broth
  • 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • Canola oil cooking spray
  • 1 egg lightly beaten

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 °F. Place cornbread cubes in large bowl and set aside.
  • In small nonstick skillet, cook sausage over medium-high heat, crumbling and stirring until brown and cooked through. Drain well and set aside.
  • In large nonstick skillet, heat canola oil over medium heat. Stir in onions, celery and carrot; cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute longer, but don’t allow garlic to brown. Stir in sausage, apricots, plums, thyme, sage, marjoram and 1/4 cup (60 mL) broth. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes. Remove from heat; pour vegetable mixture over cornbread. Add parsley and stir well. Season with salt and pepper. (Dressing may be prepared to this stage a day ahead and refrigerated, covered.)
  • Whisk together egg and remaining 3/4 cup (175 mL) broth and pour over cornbread mixture, tossing well. Spray 2-quart (2.25 L) baking dish with canola oil cooking spray (use larger baking dish if not reserving dressing for Turkey Roulade) and transfer all but 1 1/2 cups (375 mL) of dressing to baking dish. Cover dish with foil and set aside.
  • After Turkey Roulade has been in oven 30 minutes, place covered baking dish of dressing in oven. After 15 minutes (or when internal temperature of roulade, measured with instant-read thermometer, is 155 °F), remove roulade from oven and remove foil from baking dish with dressing. Continue baking dressing for about 15 minutes or until top begins to brown.
  • Source: Canola Info