30 Thanksgiving Homemade Stuffing Recipes

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These Thanksgiving homemade stuffing recipes will be the best addition to your holiday meal. We’ve compiled a list of 30 of the best homemade stuffing recipes. Thanksgiving dinner would not be complete without a good stuffing dish.You can find everything from a traditional stuffing recipe to a more unique and flavor recipe.

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The holidays are the time to really show off your cooking skills to your family and friends. One dish that everyone will love and talk about for the rest of the year, is a good homemade stuffing. These Thanksgiving homemade stuffing recipes will be the best side dish on your table. Afterall, stuffing has been around since the 1st Century, find out more here.


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Expert Tips for Making Homemade Stuffing

While stuffing can be a long process to make, its usually pretty easy and only contains a few ingredients. The tips below can help you create the best stuffing your family and friends will ever eat.

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  • Recipe Can be Doubled: Stuffing is a side that you could always have more of.  Simply increase the ingredients proportionately and split it into two baking dishes before baking.
  • Bread Options: Certain stuffings are made with a specific type of bread, but you could easily switch out to a bread of your preference. Including gluten-free options.
  • Easy Add ins: If you a baking more of a plain stuffing you can also find different add ins to make your stuffing more flavorful. Try adding in a meat or dried berries to spice up your stuffing.

Homemade Stuffing Recipes

Make stuffing from scratch can be hard work but with the right ingredients its pretty easy to make. These homemade stuffing recipes are made with different kinds of bread and mix-in ingredients.

Buttery Herb Stuffing
Buttery Herb Stuffing
This is the best stuffing recipe ever! Served as stuffing or dressing, this buttery herb toasted bread dish is absolutely incredible!
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Traditional Homemade Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe
Traditional Homemade Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe
Made with sourdough bread, veggies, butter, and Italian seasoning, this dish will soon become a holiday favorite!
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My Grandma’s Best Stuffing Recipe
My Grandma’s Best Stuffing Recipe
My Grandma’s Thanksgiving Turkey Stuffing has stood the test of time. This buttery, savory, melt-in-your-mouth stuffing is the best stuffing recipe around!
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Traditional Bread Stuffing
This stuffing is classic through and through… from the sautéed onion and celery in lots of butter, to the familiar scent of poultry seasonings and the combination of plain dried bread cubes and chicken stock. It all combines to make one of the best traditional stuffing recipes I’ve ever had.
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Thanksgiving Stuffing
Thanksgiving Stuffing
The BEST traditional Thanksgiving Stuffing recipe is easy to make dried bread cubes, sausage, diced vegetables, and chicken broth.
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Best Make Ahead Stuffing
Best Make Ahead Stuffing
Try this tried-and-true classic make ahead stuffing and you’ll be sure to have a hit at your next Thanksgiving day or holiday dinner. Best Thanksgiving dish on the table .
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Cornbread Dressing
Cornbread Dressing
Cornbread stuffing with vegetables and spices is just like traditional stuffing but made with a delicious cornbread recipe!
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Sausage Stuffing For Thanksgivng

This holiday spice up your stuffing by adding in some sausage! These mouth-watering sausage stuffing for Thanksgiving recipes will leave you with zero leftovers and your guests asking for more.

Homemade Sausage Stuffing Recipe
Homemade Sausage Stuffing Recipe
This is, quite simply, the best sausage stuffing recipe! Rich with fresh herbs, chicken Italian sausage and tender cubes of bread.
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Easy Sausage & Herb Stuffing
Easy Sausage & Herb Stuffing
This savory sausage & herb stuffing uses store-bought stuffing cubes, eliminating the step of slicing and drying out the bread.
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Sausage and Sweet Potato Thanksgiving Stuffing
Sausage and Sweet Potato Thanksgiving Stuffing
This Sausage and Sweet Potato Thanksgiving Stuffing recipe is always a crowd fave! It’s perfectly savory and sweet, nice and hearty, and always SO GOOD.
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Sausage Cranberry Apple Stuffing Recipe
Sausage Cranberry Apple Stuffing Recipe
This stuffing recipe is a winner for your turkey dinner! It’s a sourdough stuffing with apples, cranberries, and juicy sausage.
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Sausage and Apple Stuffing
Sausage and Apple Stuffing
This Sausage and Apple stuffing is my new favorite easy holiday recipe. It’s full of sausage apples, cranberries and pecans. Perfect for the holiday!
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Skillet Sausage Stuffing
Skillet Sausage Stuffing
To make this sausage stuffing, I dressed up a package of stuffing mix with pork sausage, mushrooms, celery and onion.
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Italian Sausage and Parmesan Stuffing Recipe
Italian Sausage and Parmesan Stuffing Recipe
The little parcels of herby, savoury sausage meat are tied together with a ribbon of smoked pancetta and topped off with a crispy sage bow.
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Garlicky Sausage Stuffing
Garlicky Sausage Stuffing
Italian sausage and a heap of Parmesan cheese lend signature flair to the easy Thanksgiving dressing recipe.
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Herbed Stuffing Sausage Casserole
A family gathering or holiday would not be the same without a delicious breakfast casserole, just like this Herbed Stuffing Sausage Casserole.
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Old Fashioned Sage Dressing

These old fashioned sage dressing recipes will taste exactly like Grandma used to make.

A bowl of Old Fashioned Sage and Onion Stuffing.
Old Fashioned Thanksgiving Dressing Recipe
This old fashioned thanksgiving dressing recipe is my grandma’s Thanksgiving stuffing. It’s an easy turkey stuffing recipe that is always on our holiday menu. It’s easy to make and my family has been making it for years. 
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Old Fashioned Bread, Celery And Sage Turkey Stuffing
Old Fashioned Bread, Celery And Sage Turkey Stuffing
This turkey stuffing made with bread, celery and sage is a traditional turkey dressing recipe that tastes just like Grandma used to make.
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Best Old-Fashioned Sage and Onion Turkey Stuffing
Best Old-Fashioned Sage and Onion Turkey Stuffing
This simple old-fashioned bread stuffing recipe for turkey uses sage and onion along with poultry seasoning, which is key. Plus, it’s kid-friendly too.
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Classic Sage and Sausage Dressin Recipe
Classic Sage and Sausage Dressin Recipe
Our traditional sausage and sage Thanksgiving stuffing (dressing) owes its custardy texture to oven-dried bread and a base of eggs, broth, and butter.
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Old Fashioned Cornbread Dressing
Old Fashioned Cornbread Dressing
I think I might have figured out how to make Granny’s Old Fashioned Cornbread Dressing even better.
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Old Fashioned Sage Dressing
Old Fashioned Sage Dressing is made with just 6 ingredients, it’s quick and simple with tons of flavor. A classic old-fashioned Thanksgiving dressing recipe that will quickly become a favorite.
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Classic Sage and Onion Bread Dressing
This is Pepperidge-esque, Stovetop-style stuffing — but all homemade and full of toasty flavor from good bread, and savor from turkey stock. This recipe is surprisingly simple.
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Thanksgiving Homemade Stuffing in the Slow Cooker

These slow cooker stuffing recipes will save you so much time in the kitchen. Just throw the ingredients in the slow cooker and you’ll have time to relax with family and prepare the other dishes.

A turkey and stuffing dinner.
Slow Cooker Turkey and Stuffing
The holidays can be hectic.  Make your holiday dinner a little simpler with this easy Slow Cooker Turkey and Stuffing recipe!
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Slow Cooker Chicken and Stuffing
All the holiday flavors in this Slow Cooker Chicken and Stuffing recipe! Layer chicken, gravy, stuffing, and cranberries for a complete holiday meal.
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Slow Cooker Sausage Stuffing
This sausage stuffing is super easy to make since the slow cooker does all the hard work for you! There’s no sauteing or browning required at all and you can FREE UP YOUR OVEN!! 
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Slow Cooker Stuffing
Not only is stuffing made in a slow cooker more low maintenance than traditional stuffing cooked in the oven there’s a strong argument that it actually tastes better.
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Slow Cooker Cornbread Stuffing With Dried Fruit and Herbs
This slow cooker cornbread stuffing is filled with flavor, fruit, and herbs.
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Slow Cooker Sage and Sausage Stuffing Recipe
For extra-moist and crisp stuffing, break out the slow cooker.
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5-Ingredient Turkey Stuffing Slow Cooker Casserole
Tender, juicy turkey breast slow cooked with flavor-rich herb stuffing, creamy cream of chicken soup, tangy sour cream, and hearty chicken stock makes the perfect easy weeknight dinner that is both filling and comforting.
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