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7 Easy Holiday Stuffing Recipes

No matter how you cook it, stuffing is a hugely popular holiday side dish, and it can take on a lot of flavour variations.
7 Easy Holiday Stuffing Recipes

Photo, Erik Putz.

It's a sometimes controversial side dish (to bake inside the turkey, or not to bake inside the turkey?), but either way you cook it, it's always on the holiday menu. Here are seven ways to dish up this side over the holidays, from leek and hazelnut to ultra-savoury chestnut and sausage stuffing:

Best Stuffing Recipes

Leek, hazelnut and dried pear stuffing

Savoury and sweet with a hazelnut crunch, this is an elegant stuffing recipe to add to your holiday repertoire. Get our leek hazelnut and dried pear stuffing recipe.

7 Easy Holiday Stuffing RecipesPhoto, Erik Putz.

Best-ever stuffing

We asked readers whether stuffing is best with or without meat, and the overwhelming response was without. (Just in case, we have also included a delicious sausage variation.) Tip: For effortless, delicious stuffing, bake it on its own — not in the turkey. Get our best-ever stuffing recipe.

A round white casserole dish filled with our best-ever stuffing.Photo, Erik Putz.

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Chestnut and sausage stuffing

Leftovers? What leftovers? This sweet and savoury stuffing is the perfect complement to our honey and herb turkey. (And will disappear lightning-fast.) Get our chestnut and sausage stuffing recipe.

7 Easy Holiday Stuffing RecipesPhoto, Sian Richards.

Turkey and Italian polenta stuffing

Tip: Stuffing can be prepared (but not baked) a day ahead. Refrigerate, covered, up to 1 day. Add 10 min to baking time. Get our Italian polenta stuffing recipe.

A blue and white plate filled with sliced turkey, cranberry sauce and polenta stuffing.

Sausage and water chestnut stuffing

Cooking tip: To save time, position two racks in the lower part of oven, position the stuffing below the turkey and bake at the same time. Get our sausage and water chestnut stuffing recipe.

7 Easy Holiday Stuffing RecipesPhoto, Ryan Szulc.

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Sweet potato stuffing

This dish, made with whole wheat bread, sweet potatoes, juicy cranberries, crunchy walnuts and fragrant herbs, is a medley of flavours and textures. Get our sweet potato stuffing recipe.

7 Easy Holiday Stuffing Recipes

Sausage and raisin stuffing

The secret to our recipe is raisin bread. Because it’s already so flavourful and moist, we needed to add only a few extra ingredients. Get our sausage and raisin stuffing recipe.

A green casserole dish filled with sausage and raisin stuffing.

Watch: How to make perfect mashed potatoes

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