The Holidays are right around the corner and stuffing is always a must make for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Let's add another twist to the popular side dish, Stuffing Sausage Balls. Only a few ingredients and they couldn't be easier to make. The flavors are perfect and your family will love this easy appetizer recipe!
The Stuffing Sausage Balls can be an appetizer at your Thanksgiving or Christmas meal or served as a side dish. They are perfect to serve alongside Homemade Cranberry Sauce or Bread Machine Dinner Rolls.
While Homemade Sausage Cornbread Stuffing is delicious, this recipe does better with a box mix. In fact, make both the cornbread stuffing and Stuffing Sausage Balls for your dinner.
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Ingredients
- box of stuffing mix - any brand
- ingredients listed on back of box
- cheddar cheese
- sausage - regular or mild sausage is best. I wouldn't recommend spicy for this
- egg
The sausage and the stuffing
The sausage needs to be fully cooked for this recipe. So fry up one pound of sausage until the sausage is fully cooked through and no longer pink.
After the sausage has cooked through, drain the grease from the sausage. The stuffing needs to made according to the package directions. So in the case of the box used in this recipe, water and butter was also needed.
After the sausage and stuffing is fried up and made, then simply mix everything together in a large bowl.
Tip
A spoon works well to mix this, however, hands work great too!
Scooping the mixture
The mixture needs to be formed in balls and placed on a lightly greased baking sheet. You can form the balls with your hands or use a cookie scoop.
Bake
These stuffing balls will bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes until lightly browned.
Leftovers
Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container for up to 48 hours in the refrigerator.
The blend of flavors for this Holiday stuffing recipe are amazing! Enjoy these with your Thanksgiving feast!
Other Thanksgiving Recipes
- Creamy Mashed Potatoes
- Pumpkin Pie
- Fall Fruit Salad
- Frozen Fruit Salad
- 3 Ingredient Grape Jello Salad
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Stuffing Sausage Balls
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Ingredients
- 1 box stuffing mix plus ingredients listed on the back of box
- 1 lb sausage
- 2 cups cheddar cheese
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Lightly spray baking sheet with cooking spray.
- Make the stuffing according to the package directions on the back of the box..
- Cook the sausage until no longer pink and is cooked through.
- Let the sausage and stuffing cool for about 7 minutes.
- Add sausage, stuffing, cheese and egg in a large bowl and mix with spoon or your hands if it is easier and mixture has cooled enough to handle.
- Form balls with a cookie scoop or your hands and place on greased baking sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes and balls are a light golden brown.
- Serve with toothpicks or on own.
Notes
- This recipe used Stove Top Stuffing. Other boxes of stuffing will work as well. I used the Cornbread Stuffing. Any flavor will work well!
MillieA55 says
I have mine in the oven baking as I type this. The mixing was super easy, so that gets an A+! You didn’t really specify, that I saw, exactly how large to make these balls so I hope I didn’t make them too large.
I used Jimmy Dean Sage Sausage and Stove Top Savory Stuffing flavor. These are pretty tasty! I might just make a Double batch of these for this upcoming Thanksgiving! My Daughter hates to cook and she made the Dressing last year, (No Giblets Gravy), and frankly it didn’t taste that bad, but it sure could’ve benefited from some Gravy.
Kim Strawn says
I hope you enjoyed them! I have gotten many compliments on them.
DJ says
I made these stuffing and sausages balls for New Year’s celebrations I used sweet Italian sausage, stove top stuffing mix for pork with cheddar cheese and they were delicious and so easy to make.
Kim says
Thank you for letting me know! I'm so glad you enjoyed them. They are a favorite with my family. :-)
Donna says
Someone gave us a few samples of these meatballs and they were incredibly delicious!!!! Which flavor stuffing mix is recommended?
Thanks!
Kim says
You can use any kind of stuffing mix, I however used Cornbread stuffing mix. But again, any will work!! I am so glad you enjoyed them!
Barbara says
I made these and doubled the recipe because I wanted to make some with regular sausage and some with spicy sausage. Now I have extra….can you freeze these?
Kim says
I have not put any in the freezer so I cannot speak on that. I would think they would be okay, but again, I haven't tried it. I think it is worth a try!
Terri says
Can you make these the day before?
Kim says
Yes you can! I did and they were fine. When ready to heat up again, bake in a pan, covered with just a slight amount of chicken broth on the bottom. Just enough to add a little moisture to them. Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes(ish) until they are warm.