Chestnut Stuffing

A rich stuffing of sausage meat, vacuum-packed chestnuts and bacon, ideal alongside turkey or chicken.

TIME BREAKDOWN
Prep: 20 min
Cook: 40 min
Total: 1 hour
Vegetarian
❌
Nuts
✅
Serves
8 people
Difficulty
Easy

Ingredients

  • 25g butter
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 4 rashers streaky bacon, chopped
  • 300g pork sausage meat
  • 200g cooked, peeled chestnuts, roughly chopped
  • 100g fresh white breadcrumbs
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • Salt and black pepper to taste

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 190°C (170°C fan)/gas 5 and grease a small baking dish.

  2. Melt the butter in a frying pan and cook the onion and bacon for 8 minutes until soft. Leave to cool.

  3. Mix the cooled onion and bacon with the sausage meat, chestnuts, breadcrumbs, thyme, egg and seasoning.

  4. Press the mixture into the dish.

  5. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until golden and cooked through.