Lightly Spiced Sausage and Bread Dressing is excellent with chicken or turkey but delicious when eaten as a side dish also.

Ingredients

1/2 lb sweet sausage
1/2 lb spicy sausage
4 tspn poultry seasoning
1 1/2 cups celery, strings removed and finely chopped
1 onion, finely chopped
Sausage drippings and melted butter, enough to make 1 full cup
7 cups bread cubes or basic white corn bread (see recipe below)
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup chopped water chestnuts (optional)

Directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

1. Place bread cubes in large bowl and put aside.
2. Cook sausage and remove from pan. Save 4 ounces of pan fat/drippings.
3. Saute chopped celery and onions in 4 ounces sausage drippings and 1/2 stick of butter. If adding water chestnuts, add to pan now. Add celery, onions, water chestnuts mixture to bread cubes and stir to moisten cubes. Add sausage, poulty seasoning and pepper to mix and blend thouroughly.
4. Place dressing in a large pan and bake in oven until dressing is a light golden brown.

Makes 10 to 14 side servings

Hint

For a spicer dressing use one pound of spicy sausage.