Sauce Goddess Recipes

Thanksgiving Dressing
Courtesy of Jan the Goddess' Mom

This recipe is good for 6-8 with leftovers.
Sauce Goddess Thanksgiving Roasting spice blend. Use this spice blend to season your turkey and for this dressing recipe.
2 Tbsp Sauce Goddess Original Super Chunk
2 Tbsp Dry Rosemary
2 Tbsp Dry Sage (rubbed)
Grind this up in a food processor primarily to grind up the rosemary.

Dressing
3 loaves of bread (day old white is fine)
1 stick of butter
4 cups of diced celery
2 cups of diced onion
3 cloves of minced garlic
4 cups of chicken broth, low sodium (you may not use it all)
2 eggs
turkey giblets, heart, liver, diced (optional) salt and pepper to taste

The night before Thanksgiving, get the kids (or your friends) together and "break bread" literally. You need to break up the bread into 1" cubes. Place it on every cooking sheet you have so it can dry out completely over night. When I make this recipe for more than 8, I double it. I use the entire dining table covered with a clean sheet to dry the bread out. It's good fun for the kids too. One year we had a mini bread fight with the broken pieces. No lives were lost.

Thanksgiving Morning.
Once the turkey is in the oven, begin cooking and assembling the dressing.
1) Saute the celery and onions until starting to turn translucent in 1 stick of butter with a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Add the garlic and continue cooking until all is just tender. Add 1 Tbsp of spice blend and stir. Let cool completely.
2) In a very large pan or bowl place 1/3 bread chunks. Add 2 cups of chicken stock and 1 Tbsp of spice blend. Add cooled veggies. Stir to combine.
3) Add another 1/3 bread chunks, 1 Tbsp of spice blend and stock only add needed to moisten the bread. Stir to combine.
4) Add remaining bread chunks. Stir to combine. Check to see if the mixture needs more stock. Add in 1/2 cup increments.
5) Taste. Add more spices, salt and pepper as needed.
6) AFTER the final tasting, whisk 2 eggs, stir into mixture. once this is done, no more tasting. It's important to season it as you want it before this step.
7) Place into a buttered pan, dot with a half dozen butter pieces and cover with foil.
8) Bake at 350 for 1 hour. Uncover and bake for 15 minutes more to crust up the top a tiny bit.

Note-This dressing is super moist. There are ingredients over the years that get added to this to make a debut one year to the next. Items I like, Italian pork sausage, apples, walnuts or pecans, mushrooms. Not all these get featured together, but they are nice additions to the basic recipe.

Enjoy the simple goodness.