Cranberry-Stuffed Cornbread Stuffing Muffins Recipe

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Cranberry-Stuffed Cornbread Stuffing Muffins
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Ingredients
15
Count
Nutrition
1738
Calories
Total time
75
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 3 (12 oz) boxes cornbread stuffing mix (i like the trader joe's kind- includes a seasoning packet)
  • 2 (32 oz) boxes low sodium chicken broth
  • 1 lb sweet italian sausage (i like the publix kind that comes in 1 long casing- easier to cut, vs. several sausages)
  • 1 1/2 cups diced onions (yes- why bother dicing yourself )
  • 1 1/2 cups diced celery (again ... )
  • 1 1/2 cups diced shallots , onion , and garlic (this is a killer mix i found at trader joe's)
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped fresh sage
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 (12 oz) bags fresh cranberries
  • 2 -3 cups orange juice
  • 1 1/2 cups spicy pecans
  • 2 1/2 cups brown sugar

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray cooking spray into muffin pan.
  2. In large skillet, heat olive oil to high heat. Slit sausage casing, and remove ground sausage. Break up sausage in pan, then turn to medium heat just before fully cooked. Add the three containers of onions, garlic, shallots, and celery and cook all until sausage is done and onions are translucent. Add seasoning packet that came with Stuffing mix (or not, if you bought the kind that’s pre-seasoned), and add one of the chicken broth boxes. Heat all ingredients until bubbly, then add thyme and sage just before removing from heat.
  3. Pour all stuffing mix all into one very large bowl. Then pour all contents of pan plus the additional box of broth over stuffing mix. Stir all together with two large serving spoons. Set aside.
  4. Rinse and drain cranberries, then heat in orange juice until juice is boiling and all cranberries pop open and become mushy. Watch that the juice doesn’t boil over, so turn it down to low and keep it at a simmer. In a food processor, pulse orange zest and pecans together to get a medium ground. Strain cooked cranberries from orange juice and mix them with the zest, pecans, and brown sugar.
  5. Just before baking, add the four eggs to the stuffing mix. Stir well, coating all stuffing.
  6. Spoon stuffing into muffin cups, halfway, and make a bit of a well for the cranberry filling. Just not all the way to the bottom. Spoon about 1 1/2 tablespoon of cranberry filling into each muffin cup, then come back over and fill the muffins the rest of the way, covering the cranberry filling entirely. They won’t rise, so they can be filled to the top. Keep the cranberry filling buried within the stuffing, since the filling is sugary and will caramelize when baked, and you don’t want it to cause the muffin to stick into the pan.
  7. Bake at 325 degrees for 45-55 min, or until bubbly and golden brown/crusty on top. Let cool in muffin pans and run a butter knife around the inside of each cup to loosen each muffin. That way if any of the cranberry filling has leaked out and gotten sticky, it won’t cause the muffin to break apart. They will be dense so it’s best to use a plate upside down on top of the muffin pan, then flip over to remove the muffins. Makes 30 large muffins.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1738.28 Kcal (7278 kJ)
Calories from fat 848.45 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 94.27g 145%
Cholesterol 197.69mg 66%
Sodium 1064.7mg 44%
Potassium 1593.35mg 34%
Total Carbs 199.75g 67%
Sugars 159.48g 638%
Dietary Fiber 15.45g 62%
Protein 39.38g 79%
Vitamin C 106.6mg 178%
Iron 7.8mg 43%
Calcium 338.1mg 34%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 236.51 Kcal (990 kJ)
Calories from fat 115.44 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12.83g 145%
Cholesterol 26.9mg 66%
Sodium 144.86mg 44%
Potassium 216.79mg 34%
Total Carbs 27.18g 67%
Sugars 21.7g 638%
Dietary Fiber 2.1g 62%
Protein 5.36g 79%
Vitamin C 14.5mg 178%
Iron 1.1mg 43%
Calcium 46mg 34%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 41.8
    Points
  • 48
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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