stuffing - how do I make it?

[Phteven]

Can someone tell me how to make stuffing for roast chickens. I don't like it so I never listened when Mum told me but DH likes it so now I want to make some.
Are there lots of different recipes or is it all pretty much the same?
If there are lots of recipes please share yours.

[Junglemum]

Hmmmm i love a good stuffing.

Mum's best one has apricots in......... i'll go dig up the recipe.

ETA:

Dried Apricaot and pine nut stuffing

1 onion finely chopped
1 TBS butter
1/4 C currents
1/4C pine nuts
3 thick slices of bread crumbed (As in wizzed in a food processor, stale bread is best. You can use store bought bread crumbs if you want but not as good imo! )
1/4 - 1/2 C dried apricots chopped and soaked in water
1 egg beaten

Cook onion in butter until transparent, add currents and pinenuts and cook until lightly browned. Stir in crumbs and drained apricots. Stir in egg. Season with S & P.
Stuff!

[AnyDream]

I don't know how to make "proper" stuffing (I don't "do" breadcrumbs).

The few times I have bothered to stuff, I use either rice or couscous, and add all sorts of other yummy things - spices, bacon, onion, garlic, chorizo, herbs, citrus, dried fruit - whatever. Add a good splosh of oil before you pack it in cos that is what carries the flavour.

Otherwise you could always cheat and get the packet stuff at the supermarket LOL.

[Phteven]

I'm assuming that you're talking pre-cooked rice or cous cous.

I didn't know it came in a packet - that sounds a bit scary (then again, DH loves KFC so he might think it's delicious).

[AnyDream]

Yes precooked. It doesn't stick together like the breadcrummy variety but it's yum.

[Junglemum]

There is a cheats stuffing recipe on taste that uses a packet mix plus a few extras. But it's really not that hard.
Couscous stuffing would be yum MD.

[AnyDream]

ANge, your mum's recipe sounds yum! I guess I could always substitute couscous for the bready part.

[Junglemum]

Absolutely. Or rice. It's my fave part of roast chicken.

[Dutchie80]

Hi guys
Just wanted to add that the packet stuffing at the supermarket is actually quite good ( Im a simple girl). I add other things to it like garlic, walnuts or pine nuts. Yum!

[Doing my best]

I do a really simple one..

Bread (torn up, not crumbed)
Onion - finely chopped
Garlic - 1 clove (crushed)
Mix herbs
egg to bind.

There is really no set amount, just depends on how much you like the taste of the said ingredients..