Lemon And Sausagemeat Stuffing

Ingredients

• 500g pack sausages or sausagemeat
• 1 lemon, zested
• 25g butter
• 1 tbsp. olive oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• good handful of parsley, chopped
• 2 tsp. chopped fresh thyme leaves
• 175g white or brown breadcrumbs
• (8 rashers bacon)

Method

1. Heat the oil and butter in a pan and fry the onion until lightly browned.
2. If using sausages, cut the skins down the length and remove the meat. Break the sausagemeat into a bowl.
3. Finely grate the lemon zest into the bowl.
4. Tip the onions, herbs and breadcrumbs into the bowl, with salt and pepper, and mix well with your hands.
5. Stuffing:
6. Use half of this mixture in a turkey for 8-10 people
7. Patties:
8. Take half the mixture and shape into 8 round, flat patties.
9. Tie a rasher of bacon around each.
10. Cook at 190ºC for 40 mins or put in around the chicken/turkey for this length of time.
11. Slices:
12. Line a loaf tin with 8 rashers of bacon.
13. Pack the stuffing into a loaf tin and bake in the oven (190ºC) for 45 mins.
14. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, turn out and cut into thick slices.