Healthy Christmas recipe for 8, makes about 12 people, takes only 45 mins; recipe has olive oil, onion, celery, garlic clove, apricot, chestnut, almonds, wholemeal bread, parsley, sage and egg.
Healthy stuffing balls
Course: Healthy Christmas
Servings
8, makes about 12
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- Olive Oil: 1 tbsp olive oil
- Onion: 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Egg: 1 egg
- Parsley: large bunch parsley, chopped
- Almonds: 75g almonds
- Wholemeal Bread: 100g wholemeal bread, crusts removed and roughly torn (about 6 slices)
- Apricot: 15g dried apricots, roughly chopped
- Celery: 2 sticks celery, stringed and finely chopped
- Sage: large pinch dried sage
- Chestnut: 75g peeled chestnuts
Directions
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Gently heat the oil in a shallow saucepan then add the onion, celery and garlic. Keep everything sizzling on a medium heat for 15 mins until soft. Tip into a food processor with the rest of the ingredients, except the egg, plus a small pinch of salt, if you like. Pulse until everything is chopped, then add the egg and pulse until combined. Use wet hands to roll the mixture into walnut-sized balls, then place on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment.
- Bake in the oven for 25-30 mins until golden and hot through.Will freeze for up to three months; defrost fully before reheating.
