The Very Best Family-Style Oyster Dressing

Name: The Very Best Family-Style Oyster Dressing
Prep time: 3 h 5 min
Cook time: 3 h 5 min
Total time: 3 h 5 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 227 grams box buttermilk biscuit mix; 237 milliliters chicken livers, rinsed and trimmed; 241 grams package corn muffin mix; 1 teaspoon crumbled dried sage; 1 egg; 79 milliliters milk; 1 onion, chopped; 12 servings salt and pepper to taste; 473 milliliters shucked oysters with their liquor; 397 grams package dry herb-seasoned stuffing mix; 1 Tbsp crushed dried thyme leaves; 340 grams turkey gravy; 118 milliliters unsalted butter, divided; 355 milliliters water; 473 milliliters turkey broth, or as desired

The Very Best Family-Style Oyster Dressing requires around 3 hours and 5 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 9g of protein, 15g of fat, and a total of 392 calories. Head to the store and pick up onion, turkey gravy, egg, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 8 muffin cups.

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Oven

In a bowl, beat the corn muffin mix, egg, and milk together until moistened; batter will be slightly lumpy. Allow the batter to rest 3 to 4 minutes, stir again, and spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling them halfway.

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Corn Muffin Mix

Milk

Egg

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Bowl

Bake in the preheated oven until the muffins have risen and are golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin should come out clean.

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Oven

Remove the muffins, let cool, and coarsely crumble the muffins into a very large bowl.

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Bowl

Increase the oven heat to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).

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Oven

Place the biscuit mix into a bowl, and lightly stir in 1/2 cup of water to make a soft dough. Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface, and gently knead 2 or 3 times; pat the dough out 1/2-inch thick. With a 2-inch floured cutter, cut the biscuit dough into rounds, and place biscuits onto an ungreased baking sheet.

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Biscuit Mix

Dough

Water

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Baking Sheet

Bowl

Bake the biscuits in the 450-degree oven until lightly golden brown, about 10 minutes.

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Biscuits

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Oven

Remove biscuits, allow to cool on a rack, and coarsely crumble the biscuits in the bowl with the muffin crumbs.

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Biscuits

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Bowl

Reduce oven heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C); grease an 11x15-inch baking dish.

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Oven

Melt 1/4 cup of unsalted butter in a large skillet; cook and stir the onion and chicken livers in the butter until the onion is translucent and the chicken livers are no longer pink, about 10 minutes. Press a fork into the chicken livers to mash them as they cook.

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Butter

Chicken Liver

Onion

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Frying Pan

Remove from heat and set aside.

Place the herb stuffing mix into the large bowl with the crumbs. Melt the remaining 1/4 cup of butter with 1 1/2 cup of water in a saucepan over medium heat. If stuffing mix comes with a separate packet of herbs, empty the herb packet into the saucepan and bring to a boil.

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Stuffing Mix

Butter

Herbs

Water

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Bowl

Pour the mixture over the dry stuffing mix and crumbs.

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Stuffing Mix

Pour in the turkey gravy and mix in the cooked chicken livers with onions and butter. With a large wooden spoon, begin stirring in turkey broth until the stuffing is moist but not soggy. Stir in sage, thyme, salt, and black pepper, and lightly spoon the dressing into the prepared baking sheet.

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Chicken Liver

Black Pepper

Turkey Broth

Turkey Gravy

Stuffing

Butter

Onion

Thyme

Sage

Salt

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Baking Sheet

Wooden Spoon

Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes; remove from oven, and gently stir in the oysters and their juices. Cook for an additional 15 minutes. If you need to hold the stuffing for a short while, cook for 10 minutes after stirring in oysters, remove from oven, cover the dish with aluminum foil, and serve as soon as possible.

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Stuffing

Oysters