Pilgrim Stuffing Recipe

Name: Pilgrim Stuffing Recipe
Ingredients: -- bread stuffing (home made or prepared brands, such as Stouffer's Pepperidge Farm, cook's choice); -- butter; -- mushrooms; -- celery; -- onion; -- fresh cranberries (although dried, re-hydrated cranberries can be used in off-season); -- fresh bay scallops (although sea scallops can be substituted in off-season -- but flavor contrast between cranberry tartness and bay scallop sweetness not as appreciable if using sea scallops)

7 ingredients

9 steps

Ingredients

-- bread stuffing (home made or prepared brands, such as Stouffer's Pepperidge Farm, cook's choice)
-- butter
-- mushrooms
-- celery
-- onion
-- fresh cranberries (although dried, re-hydrated cranberries can be used in off-season)
-- fresh bay scallops (although sea scallops can be substituted in off-season -- but flavor contrast between cranberry tartness and bay scallop sweetness not as appreciable if using sea scallops)

Directions

1

Chop mushrooms, onions and celery into small bits;
2

If using sea scallops, also chop them into bite sized bits;
3

If using dried cranberries, rehydrate in water;
4

Melt butter in saute pan
5

Add cranberries (drained of water, if dried and rehydrated), mushrooms, celery, and onion to butter in saute pan, and saute for about 5 minutes;
6

Add bay scallops (or chopped sea scallops) to saute pan mix and saute for an additional 5 minutes;
7

In an oven-safe bowl, combine stuffing mix (home made or prepared mix) with sauted scallops, cranberries, mushrooms, onions and celery;
8

Place oven-safe bowl with stuffing mixture into a pre-heated oven and bake for about 20 minutes (or longer, as individual taste desires) until done.
9

Serve this deliciously sweet-tart stuffing mix with traditional Thanksgiving Turkey dinner -- most will agree that the stuffing alone is akin to a whole meal in and of itself!