Easy Cracker Stuffing Recipes

CRACKER STUFFING

Steps:

• Combine crackers and eggs in a large bowl.
• Add butter and mix well.
• Add bullion slowly.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
• You may want to add more of a certain ingredient listed above according to your taste.
• Take stuffing mixture and put it in a casserole dish.
• Bake @ 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes until it is golden brown.

OLD-FASHIONED CRACKER DRESSING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly coat a baking dish with cooking spray.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion, celery, and 1 teaspoon salt in melted butter until onion begins to turn translucent, about 5 minutes. season with black pepper, sage, thyme, rosemary, and cayenne pepper; cook and stir about 1 minute.
• Remove skillet from heat and stir in chicken broth.
• Combine crushed crackers and onion mixture in a large bowl. Add egg and cream; mix until combined. Season with salt and black pepper.
• Spread cracker mixture evenly in a large baking dish and smooth the top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until top is golden brown, 40 to 45 minutes.

CRACKER STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Melt margarine in large skillet on medium-high heat. Add onion and celery; cook and stir until crisp-tender. Remove from heat. Stir in remaining ingredients.
• Spoon into greased 1-1/2-quart casserole dish; cover.
• Bake 40 minutes or until heated through.

EASY CRACKER STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Cook mushrooms, onion and celery in butter in skillet on medium heat until tender.
• Mix cracker crumbs, walnuts, parsley, poultry seasoning, pepper and vegetable mixture in large bowl. Add broth and eggs, tossing until well blended. Spoon into 2-quart baking dish or pan; cover.
• Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until heated through.

TELBAN'S FAMILY CRACKER STUFFING

Steps:

• With crackers still in their sleeves, crush up with your hands (easier to crush this way, and it keeps your hands cleaner). Place crushed crackers in large bowl.
• In a frying pan, saute the butter and onion until the onion are tender, about 5 minutes. Chop celery into small pieces and add to the crackers. Add cooked onions and butter to the crackers; mix well.
• Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well. Add milk a little at a time (you might not use all of the milk), until the cracker mix is moistened.
• Cracker mix should form a ball which you can hold in your hand. Use to stuff a 12-pound turkey. When stuffing a turkey this does not expand, so you want to pack it in tight. When the turkey is ready, you pull out the stuffing in one big chunk and slice it. Great on a turkey sandwich the next day!

BASIC STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Melt 1 stick butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add 2 cups each diced onions and celery, 2 chopped apples and 1 tablespoon each minced sage and thyme; season with salt and pepper and cook 5 minutes. Add 3 cups chicken broth and bring to a simmer. Whisk 2 eggs with 1/4 cup chopped parsley in a large bowl; add 16 cups cubed stale country white bread, then pour in the vegetable-broth mixture and toss. Transfer to a buttered 3-quart baking dish and dot with more butter. Cover and bake 30 minutes, then uncover and bake until golden, 20 more minutes.

POTATO AND CRACKER STUFFING

Steps:

• Cover potatoes with cold water in a pot. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain.
• Cook mushrooms in 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over high heat, stirring, until golden brown, about 5 minutes; set aside. Cook onions and celery in skillet in remaining 2 tablespoons butter, stirring, until soft, about 5 minutes.
• Peel potatoes; mash, but leave whole pieces. Add pine nuts, mushrooms, onion mixture, spices, and salt. Stir in crackers.
• To bake stuffing: Cover with foil in a 3-quart baking dish. Bake in a 350 degree oven 15 minutes. Remove foil; bake until heated through and golden, about 15 minutes more. To cook in turkey: Immediately pack loosely in turkey cavity; cook until an instant-read thermometer inserted into center of stuffing registers 165 degrees.

RITZ CRACKER STUFFING

Steps:

• Brown onions in oil or chicken fat until very brown; drain off grease.
• Add onions and celery to the cracker bits in a large bowl; tossing to mix.
• Add eggs to mixture and stir.
• Put the stuffing into a souffle dish.
• Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
• Baste often with turkey drippings if you are making a turkey or use chicken stock.

QUICK AND EASY CRACKERS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
• Cut butter into small cubes. In medium bowl, coat butter in flour, then smash it between your fingers until well integrated and about the size of peppercorns.
• Decide if you are making seeded, rosemary or Parmesan-oregano crackers. For seeded crackers, stir in poppy seed, sesame seed and pepper. For rosemary crackers, stir in rosemary. For Parmesan-oregano crackers, stir in Parmesan cheese and oregano.
• Pour in 3 tablespoons of the buttermilk, and stir with fork. Add more buttermilk, a tablespoon at a time, until the dough just holds together.
• On work surface sprinkled with flour, roll out dough with rolling pin sprinkled with flour to about 1/16 inch. Cut crackers out of the dough, about 5 inches long by 1 inch wide. Place on cookie sheet using spatula. If making rosemary crackers, brush with olive oil, and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until crackers are brown. Remove to cooling rack to cool before serving.

HERBED CRACKER STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Place bread cubes in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake, tossing occasionally, until dried but not browned, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add garlic, onions, and celery, and saute until just starting to brown, about 8 minutes. Add wine, and simmer 1 minute. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Mix in bread cubes, crackers, herbs, and 1 teaspoon salt; season with pepper. Stir in broth, milk, and eggs until just incorporated.
• If not stuffing turkey, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spoon stuffing into a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Cover with parchment, then foil, and bake 45 minutes. Raise oven temperature to 425 degrees. Uncover stuffing, and bake until top is crisp and browned, about 5 minutes.

BAKED STUFFED SHRIMP WITH RITZ CRACKERS®

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Coat a baking dish with cooking spray.
• Mix crushed round crackers, parsley, saltines, celery salt, and garlic together in a large bowl. Add scallops, crabmeat, melted butter, and cooking wine; mix stuffing well.
• Place a shrimp on a flat work surface. Slice horizontally through the middle, being careful not to cut all the way through to the other side. Open the 2 sides and spread them out like an open book. Repeat with remaining shrimp.
• Stuff each shrimp with a heaping tablespoon of stuffing and place back-side up in the baking dish. Repeat with remaining shrimp and stuffing. Add 1 or 2 tablespoons water to the bottom of the baking dish to keep shrimp moist during baking.
• Bake in the preheated oven until shrimp are opaque and stuffing is beginning to brown, 15 to 18 minutes.

EASY TURKEY STUFFING

Steps:

• In 10-inch skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add onion, celery and carrots; cook, stirring occasionally, until tender.
• In large bowl, mix bread cubes, parsley, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. Add broth and butter-onion mixture, stirring until desired moistness (stuffing will become a little more moist during roasting because it will absorb juices from turkey).
• Use to stuff 1 (14- to 18-lb) turkey. After stuffing turkey, place any remaining stuffing in 1- or 2-quart casserole that has been sprayed with cooking spray; cover and refrigerate. Bake stuffing in casserole with turkey for last 35 to 40 minutes of roasting time or until thoroughly heated.