Slow Cooker Sausage Stuffing/Dressing. This dressing recipe is so delicious, no one will know it's lower in fat. In a nonstick skillet, cook and crumble sausage with onion and celery over medium-high heat until This is very similar to the way I make stuffing, but I use pre-cooked turkey breakfast sausage. Making this moist bread dressing in a slow cooker is an excellent way to free up the oven for other dishes on a busy cooking day.

Made right in your slow cooker it frees up your oven and makes it easy to transport. It slow cooks to perfection adding crispy edges and will be the best stuffing that you will ever make! Here is a good way to make your dressing if you need more oven space or love the stuffing texture that comes out of a stuffed turkey. You can cook Slow Cooker Sausage Stuffing/Dressing using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Slow Cooker Sausage Stuffing/Dressing

1. Prepare 1 pound of ground Italian sausage.
2. You need 1 of (12-16 oz) bag of stuffing cubes.
3. You need 1 teaspoon of ground black pepper.
4. You need 1 cup of dried cranberries.
5. You need 1 teaspoon of onion powder.
6. It's 1 teaspoon of garlic powder.
7. It's 2 teaspoon of poultry seasoning.
8. You need 1 teaspoon of ground sage.
9. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of crushed rosemary.
10. You need 1/2 teaspoon of crushed thyme.
11. You need 2 tablespoon of no/reduce salt butter, melted.
12. Prepare 2-4 cups of reduce/no salt chicken broth.

Use the slow cooker for ultra-moist stuffing with crispy edges. This classic stuffing, flavored with sage and pork sausage, comes out extra moist when cooked in the slow cooker. Spice up your stuffing by adding spicy sausage or chorizo; our traditional and slow-cooker versions are all hearty, satisfying and guaranteed to earn a spot at your next Thanksgiving table. With slow cooker stuffing, you'll spend less time in the kitchen and more time making memories this holiday season.

Slow Cooker Sausage Stuffing/Dressing step by step

1. Remove sausages from their casings. Heat up sausage in a skillet. As it is browning, break it up with a fork. Once browned, put it to the side..
2. Spray the slow cooker or, better yet, put in a liner. You will thank me later..
3. In large bowl mix the stuffing cubes with dried cranberries, sausage, ground black pepper, onion & garlic powder, poultry seasoning, ground sage, and then finally the crushed rosemary & thyme..
4. Pour the butter on top, then stir together. Next, add the chicken broth until you get the moisture that you desire. For me, it took 3 cups of broth..
5. Cook on low for 2- 3 hours. Check after 2 hours, then every half hour after that. Stirring as you check it out. It took me 2 1/2 hours to get it the way that I like it..
6. Enjoy!.

Place ingredients - including cubed French bread, chicken stock, sausage, celery and onion - into the crock. Add McCormick® rosemary and rubbed sage and let the slow cooker work its. Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen. This hearty stuffing requires no use of a stove-top or oven-simply add cut-up stale French bread, a few vegetables and sweet Italian sausage to a slow cooker and let the machine do the rest. This sausage and apple stuffing is extra-moist and full of classic fall flavors.