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     Title: Stuffing with Sage, Sausages and Roasted Garl
Categories: Christmas, Holidays
     Yield: 1 Servings

     3    Cloves of garlic
          Olive oil
     1    Pinch thyme, sage
     5 c  Fresh breadcrumbs
     3 c  Cooked rice, cooled
     5 tb Butter
     3 md Sized carrots, peeled and
          -diced
     3    Celery stalks, diced
     1 lg Onion, diced
     1 md Sized green pepper, diced
 1 1/2 lb Mild Italian sausage, cut
          -into pieces
     2 tb Chicken stock concentrate,
          -liquid
     1 tb Dried sage
 1 1/2 ts Salt
     2 ts Pepper, freshly ground
     3 c  Chicken stock

 Roast garlic: remove upper quarter of unpeeled cloves,
 moisten cloves with olive oil, sprinkle thyme and sage
 over garlic, and cook in oven at 375 F, 30 - 35
 minutes.

 Combine bread and rice in a large bowl.  Set aside.
 Melt 5 tablespoons of butter in a large frying pan
 over medium heat.  Add carrots and saute until tender,
 about 2 minutes, then onion and celery, and saute 10
 minutes.  Add green pepper and saute 1 minute.
 Combine vegetables with bread and rice mixture in the
 large bowl.

 In the same pan, saute the sausages over medium heat,
 stirring frequently with a wooden spoon, until they
 are brown and completely cooked, about 8 minutes.
 Remove sausages with a slotted spoon; add sausages,
 chicken stock concentrate, sage, salt and pepper to
 the stuffing mixture.  Pour chicken stock, one cup at
 a time; mix well.  The stuffing should be very moist.

 Press cloves of garlic to remove the flesh; add to
 stuffing.  Season with salt and pepper.  Stuff the
 turkey with this savory mixture.  Typed in MMFormat by
 Cindy Hartlin  Source: Maxi & Co. Magazine  Winter
 97-98

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