Wild Rice Turkey Stuffing Recipes

WILD RICE STUFFING

Steps:

• Remove liver from giblets if desired. Place giblets and water in a saucepan. Cover and simmer for 2 hours or until tender. , Meanwhile, prepare rice according to package directions. In a small skillet, saute celery and onion in butter; add to rice. Drain and dice giblets. Stir stuffing, broth and giblets into rice., Spoon into an ungreased 1-1/2-qt. baking dish. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until heated through.

WILD RICE STUFFING FOR TURKEY

Steps:

• Dissolve 3 cubes bouillon in 1 cup hot water. In a medium saucepan, combine wild rice with bouillon water, then fill with just enough cold water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Mix remaining 1 cube bouillon in 1 cup hot water. Heat butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Stir in celery and green pepper; cook until tender. Mix in remaining bouillon water. Pour skillet contents into a large bowl. Stir together cooked rice, croutons, and poultry seasoning.
• Stuff turkey loosely, and cook turkey as directed. Or put stuffing into a well greased baking dish, cover, and bake 30 minutes in a preheated oven at 325 degrees F (165 degree C).

ROAST TURKEY WITH WILD RICE STUFFING

Steps:

• Dilute the chicken stock with the water.
• Rinse the wild rice in several changes of cold water and drain.
• Put the rice in a medium saucepan, add 5 cups of diluted chicken stock and bring to a boil over moderately high heat.
• Cover, reduce the heat to low and cook slowly, stirring occasionally, until the rice is tender and the stock absorbed.
• The cooking time may vary from 35-60 minutes.
• If the rice is not done and the stock has boiled away, add another cup of stock; if the rice is done but stock remains, uncover and boil over high heat until evaporated.
• (The rice can be cooked up to 1 day ahead. Let cool, then cover and refrigerate.) In a large bowl, toss the cooked rice with the water chestnuts, water cress, scallions, almonds, and proscuitto.
• Season with pepper and salt, if needed.
• Let the stuffing cool thoroughly.
• In a medium saucepan, cover the turky neck, heart and gizzard with 4 cups of water.
• Add the onion, celery and a pinch of salt.
• Bring to a boil over high heat.
• Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 90 minutes, skimming occasionally.
• Strain the broth and set aside; you should have about 3 cups.
• Reserve the turkey gizzard and heart.
• Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
• Spoon the stuffing into the check and neck cavities of the bird.
• Fold the neck skin over the stuffing and secure with skewers.
• Truss the bird with twine.
• Season the turkey liberally with salt and pepper and rub the butter all over.
• Wrap any leftover stuffing in a foil packet.
• Place the turkey, breast side down, on a foil-lined rack, in a roasting pan and roast for 2 hours.
• Turn the turkey breast-side up and roast for about 2 hours longer, basting often with the pan juices.
• Ten minutes before the roasting time is up, add the turkey liver to the pan.
• The bird is done when an instant-read thermometer inserted into the inner thigh registers 170 degrees.
• Transfer the turkey to a warm platter, reserving the liver.
• Let the bird rest for 30 minutes before carving.
• Heat the extra stuffing in the oven for about 25 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the gravy.
• Pour all the juices into a large measuring cup.
• Spoon about 3 tablespoons of fat from the juices into the pan and set it over two burners.
• Stir the flour into the pan and cook over moderate heat for 1 minute, scraping up any browned bits.
• Whisk in 1 cup of the reserved turkey broth until smooth.
• Whisk in the remaining broth and simmer until thickened.
• Degrease the remaining juices in the measuring cup and stir them into the gravy.
• Chop the gizzard, heart and liver finely and stir into the gravy.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Pour into a warmed gravy boat and serve alongside the carved turkey.

WILD RICE STUFFING

Steps:

• Boil cut up giblets and neck until tender.
• Save the water.
• Grind giblets and shredded neck meat and place in a large bowl (I use the roasting pan).
• Chop onion and celery and saute in the butter until tender.
• Add to the giblet meat.
• Break up the French bread and add the chunks to the giblets, onion and celery.
• Pour boiling water over the wild rice and drain.
• Do not skip this step.
• Add the drained wild rice to the mixture in the bowl.
• Add enough giblet water to moisten.
• Add the spices and one egg.
• Knead the mixture until well blended, adding more spices and/or giblet water as needed.
• Refrigerate overnight and stuff mixture into turkey just before ready to roast.
• May be cooked separately covered with foil for about an hour to an hour and a half in a 325 degree oven.

ROAST TURKEY WITH WILD RICE, SAUSAGE, AND APPLE STUFFING

Steps:

• For the stuffing: Combine the wild rice, water, and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until the rice is tender and just bursting, about 30 minutes. (Times may very depending on the brand of rice used.) Drain and set aside.
• Adjust an oven rack to lowest position and remove other racks. Preheat to 325 degrees F.
• Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, apple, celery, garlic, thyme, mace, remaining 1 teaspoon salt and pepper, to taste. Cook until the vegetables soften, about 5 minutes. Stir in sausage, breaking it up with a wooden spoon and cook until it loses most of its rosy color, but not so much that it's dry, about 5 minutes more. Stir in the cooked wild rice, pecans, and parsley into the vegetable mixture. (This can be made the day before.)
• For the turkey: Remove turkey parts from neck and breast cavities and reserve for other uses, if desired. Dry bird well with paper towels, inside and out. Melt the butter together with the poultry seasoning. Salt and pepper inside the bird cavity. Loosely add the stuffing to the cavity and set the bird on a rack in a roasting pan, breast-side up, and brush generously with the seasoned butter, then season with salt and pepper. Tent the top of the bird with foil.
• Roast the turkey for about 2 hours undisturbed. Remove and discard the foil. Baste with the remaining butter. Increase oven temperature to 425 degrees F and continue to roast until an instant-read thermometer registers 165 degrees F when inserted into the thickest part of the thigh, about 20 to 25 minutes more. Remove turkey from oven and tent with foil for 15 minutes before carving.

WILD RICE TURKEY STUFFING

Steps:

• Put rice into large pot of water about 8 cups. Simmer for 45 min to an hour just until the wild rice has started to burst. Drain water and allow to cool to room temperature. While the rice is cooking, chop up the mushrooms, onion, and celery and saute, celery should still be firm once cooked. When rice is cooled add it to the vegetable mixture with all remaining ingredients seasoning for taste.
• Take cheese cloth and line inside of turkey with enough extra to tie up later. Spoon stuffing mixture into the cheesecloth/turkey tie closed. If you have extra put it into another piece of cheesecloth and put this into the bottom of the roaster so that it is in the pan juices later.
• Cook turkey as normal.
• **I have used a prepackaged rice mix to make this as well it is called "Lundberg Wild Blend" 1 package is the perfect amount for this recipe just replace for both of the above rice amounts. I get it from our Walmart Supercentre.
• Additional seasoning can be added as well for instance if you really like sage in your stuffing there is no reason why you could not add it here as well.

WILD RICE STUFFING

Steps:

• Heat a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add celery, onion, wild rice, and garlic to pan; sauté 3 minutes.
• Stir in broth and sage; bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 25 minutes.
• Stir in brown rice, and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and cook for 30 minutes or until liquid is absorbed. Remove from heat; let stand, covered, 10 minutes. Stir in cherries and remaining ingredients.
• Serve or stuff your turkey or chicken.