Super Easy Sausage Meat Stuffing Balls (Make Ahead Recipe)
These super easy Sausage Meat Stuffing Balls can be prepared ahead of Christmas and either refrigerated or frozen until needed. Reduce the stress on Christmas Day without compromising on homemade, tasty stuffing for your Christmas dinner.
Ingredients
- 400 g pork sausage meat
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 red onion finely chopped
- 20 g fresh sage or 2 teaspoon dried
- 30 g fine breadcrumbs
- 180 g whole cooked chestnuts finely chopped
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 200C (fan) / 220C conventional / 390F degrees or Gas Mark 6 (if cooking them straight away) or you can airfry at 200C
- Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in pan and fry finely chopped 1 red onion until it starts to soften
- Prepare 20 g fresh sage by cutting stems off then finely chopping leaves. Add the chopped sage to pan with the softened onion and cook for final few minutes, then remove from the heat and allow to cool
- In a separate bowl, add 400 g pork sausage meat, 30 g fine breadcrumbs, salt & pepper
- Once onion and sage mixture has cooled slightly, mix it through sausage mixture with the 180 g whole cooked chestnuts (finely chopped)
- Using wet hands (I spray mine with some olive oil to stop the mixture sticking to my fingers) - portion into 12 golf ball sized balls and place on baking tray lined with foil / grease proof paper (or you can halve the mixture and put in foil baking trays for storage and baking.
- You can either: cook straight away in the oven or the airfryer, refrigerate or freeze to be cooked later when needed (See Notes below for full list of options)
Notes
Storage: can be stored in either the fridge (for up to 4 days) or freezer (for up to 3 months) until needed
Freezing sausage meat stuffing balls to be cooked later: assemble the sausage meat stuffing balls and place in the freezer on a tray for 2 hours, then remove and add to a sealable freezer bag for easier and more space-saving storage.
Cook times: will vary dependant on how the Christmas stuffing balls have been stored and whether you're cooking in oven or the airfryer. The times below are
Oven
Pre-heat oven to 200C (fan) / 220C conventional or 390F- cooking straight away once prepared: 18 minutes
- cooking from refrigerated: 20 minutes
- cooking from frozen: 23 - 25 minutes
Airfryer
Cook at 200C or 390F- cooking straight away once prepared: 12 minutes
- cooking from refrigerated: 14 minutes
- cooking from frozen: 18 - 20 minutes
Nutrition
Calories: 311kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 11gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 48mgSodium: 462mgPotassium: 353mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 58IUVitamin C: 14mgCalcium: 34mgIron: 1mg
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