Easy Amish Style Stovetop Dressing
This one skillet Stovetop Dressing reminds me of the kind of dressing we eat in Amish Country. Buttery toasted bread cubes, celery, onion, herbs all mixed with chicken broth and completely cooked on the stovetop. Add carrots, raisins, chicken etc. if you wish.
In a large skillet over medium heat, melt the butter.
Add the diced celery and diced onion. Sauté until your desired doneness.
Add all of the seasonings, stir and remove from the heat.
Toast the bread and cut into cubes.
Return the skillet to the burner over medium low heat and add the toasted bread cubes. Toss until all the butter is mixed into the bread cubes.
Add enough chicken broth to get the bread wet enough that is starts to fall apart as you toss it. We like our stuffing moist so I poured in the entire can of chicken broth. You may want to start with a little and gradually add more as needed.
Continue to cook and turn over until it is as wet or dry as you want.
Then serve!
Easy Amish Style Stovetop Dressing
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Ingredients
- 8 slices white bread
- 6 Tbsp. butter
- 1 stalk celery, diced
- 1 small onion, diced
- 14.5 oz. chicken broth (approximately)
- 3/4 tsp. dried sage
- 1/2 tsp. dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp. pepper
Directions
- In a large skillet over medium heat, melt the butter.
- Add the diced celery and diced onion. Sauté until your desired doneness.
- Add all of the seasonings, stir and remove from the heat.
- Toast the bread and cut into cubes.
- Return the skillet to the burner over medium low heat and add the toasted bread. Toss until all of the butter is mixed into the bread cubes.
- Add enough chicken broth to get the bread wet enough that is starts to fall apart. We like our stuffing moist so I poured in the entire can of chicken broth. You may want to start with a little and gradually add more as needed.
- Continue to cook and turn over until it is as wet or dry as you want, then serve!
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Categories: Bread, Broth, Butter, Stuffing, Vegetables/Slaws/Salads
Diane, this is a great recipe to keep handy when I want a substitute for potatoes for dinner.
Thank you Bernadette! That was exactly what I did, substituted for potatoes. Next time I will add carrots, I think it needs color but taste wise it was delicious.
yummmm, and now I’m craving a full turkey dinner )
I know Beth it does seem to go together. I made this with hot Italian sausage and a vegetable, so good! Thank you💕
That is not dressing… At least not in the South.
Many different ways to make dressing. Now you have my curiosity up Linda, how do they do it in the south? I live in the North and love trying new things!!!!
We make dressing with cornbread. What you had posted sounds like stuffing not dressing. I hope I didn’t sound like a smarty pants. lol I didn’t mean too. I just never heard stuffing called dressing. 🙂
If you Google “What is the difference between stuffing and dressing it will tell you stuffing goes inside the poultry cavity whereas dressing does not. Same ingredients but named differently by whether it is “stuffed” into the poultry or used as dressing outside of the poultry, or in my case on the stovetop. I hope you find this interesting as I do and no, I did not think you were being a smarty pants. Lol
I can just smell this cooking. I’ll take that chicken leg and some stuffing please.
Stuffing/dressing and dark meat is my favorite to JC! Thank you💕
We’ve never had dressing (or is it called stuffing?). We’ve had stuffed chicken before, but nothing like your recipe here. Worth a try I think!
It’s called stuffing if it goes into the bird and dressing if it’s not but basically the same recipe.
Never too old to learn, right?
Right, I still learn every day!
This looks so good, and the recipe is so much easier than the one I’ve always used. Thank you, Diane!
You’re re welcome Kellye! Next time I will add carrots for more color.
That looks like wonderful cozy comfort food 🥰
Thank you is tasted so good.
Sounds like a dream come true! Thanks for printing this recipe. Your ever faithful friend, Karla.
You’re very welcome Karla, it is a nice change from potatoes.
It sure is. I love “stuffing” with pork. My mother used to bake stuffed pork chops. So good!
I love stuffing and I know this is weird but the rare times I cook a turkey, I eat the stuffing and not the turkey ! lol
I don’t find that weird at all! What’s weird is that my husband likes boxed stove top stuffing with Thanksgiving so I have to make both. It really surprised me how much he loved this one because I make it pretty much the same way only with egg. I’m thinking the juices from the turkey getting into the stuffing is what he doesn’t like, but I know I do!!!! Lol
I like box stuffing too! But it’s better in the turkey
A nice simple and tasty dressing!
Thank you Mary 💕
This is how I like dressing… stove top style. I like mine moist too!
It’s the only way to eat dressing! Lol
I agree!!
I’m not a fan of stuffing…
I love making the dressing on the stovetop and not in the oven .
I also am known to add ground sausage to my dressing.
Wow never tasted it that way Nancy! I can call that a meal right? Celery and onions are the veggies, meat and dressing. Lol
My Mom always made sausage dressing at Thanksgiving. I make it now as well. I like it with or without sausage. Yum!
My hubby loves stovetop and I will have to share this with him!
This tastes like the stuffing you have at Thanksgiving. However, my husband hates homemade stuffing that comes out of the bird, loves the boxed Stove Top Stuffing and still loved this recipe. Thank you Ab!
The hubby loves all kinds of stuffing. It’s blasphemous in our house to have Turkey without stuffing in the bird. 😆
I can almost smell the onions, spices, and broth as they heat up!
Reminds me of the holidays! Thank you Linda. 💕
My mom made her own dressing for years until she discovered Stove Top stuffing. But, she would still take some chopped celery and onions and spices to make it taste “homemade”. As you know, I loved Mom’s stuffed pork chops, good for a tasty pork chop and stuffing sandwich the next day.
We eat Stove Top (boxed) every now and then, when I need a quick side. It is very good!
I agree!
When we used to do our turkey dinner at the church (pre covid) we did a stuffing similar to this on the stove, but didn’t use toasted bread. I like that idea and will try it when I need extra stuffing. Thanks Diane.
It’s such an easy way to make stuffing and it tasted so good that my husband loved it. He’s the boxed stove top king!