Cranberry Apple Sausage Stuffing

Cranberry Apple Sausage Stuffing
Serves 6-8

Ingredients:
1 box Enjoy Life Happy Apple Soft
Baked Cookies OR Snickerdoodle
Cookies
8-10 slices gluten-free bread, stale OR toasted until dry, broken into bite-sized pieces
1 lb turkey sausage or vegetarian sausage, uncooked (optional)
½ C cranberries, dried
1 onion, chopped fine
1 carrot, peeled and chopped fine
1 clove garlic, finely minced
2-½ C chicken stock or vegetable stock
¾ t salt
½ t ground sage
2 T oil or butter or buttery spread

Preheat oven to 350F.
Grease a 9"x13” pan and set aside.

Tear up the loaf of bread into bite size pieces and place on sheet pan.
Tear up the Happy Apple Cookies and place on the same sheet pan.
Place in oven and allow to bake until golden and toasted, about 15-20 minutes.

Meanwhile, in 1 T of oil or butter, saute the onions, garlic and carrots together.
When soft and translucent, remove from pan.
Add in sausage, which should not be in casing.
Cook sausage. Once cooked, add sausage to the onions, garlic and carrots mixture.
Add cranberries to this mixture.

In a large bowl, combine the toasted bread and cookies with the onion-sausagecranberry mixture.
Sprinkle salt and sage over the top.
Pour chicken stock and toss until absorbed.
If desired, add butter, oil, or buttery spread to stuffing.
Spread evenly in 9"x13” pan.

Bake in oven for 30 minutes or hold in refrigerator until ready to use.

Enjoy.