Sausage Stuffing Balls + Cooking Video

My Sausage Stuffing Balls are the perfect recipe to serve to your family during the holiday season. As a kid, my Mom’s stuffing was always the highlight (to me) and I could literally eat mountains of it!

While Mom’s stuffing is delicious and totally transports me back to my childhood, it’s also filled with refined carbs. She never used a stuffing mix — it always started with a loaf of white bread that’s been air drying for hours. I knew I had to come up with a lower carb version.

Some Keto stuffing recipes call for a low carb bread, which could really go in any direction. I’ve had Keto friendly breads that have been decent and others that have been downright horrible.

My goal was to create a stuffing recipe that is super simple, full of flavor, and mimicked the real stuff. It also had to minimize my least favorite part of most traditional stuffing — the chunky bits. This is usually a mixture of onion and celery sauteed in melted butter. Instead, dried onion and celery salt provide the necessary flavors with minimal crunchy annoyances.

I like to serve the sausage balls as a Thanksgiving side dish alongside a brined turkey, mashed cauliflower and gravy.

You can also use these as an appetizer and serve with a side of gravy. Either way, they’re totally addictive and delicious!

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Sausage Stuffing Balls

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

15 mins

Total Time

30 mins

 

My Sausage Stuffing Balls are perfect as a Thanksgiving side dish or Christmas appetizer. Best of all -- they're low carb!

Course: Appetizer, Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Servings: 18 sausage balls

Calories: 314 kcal

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground sausage
• 1 cup almond flour
• 1 cup shredded cheddar
• 2 eggs beaten
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp oat fiber
• 2 tsp dried onion
• 2 tsp dried oregano
• 1 tsp celery salt
• 1 tsp dried parsley
• 1 tsp dried sage
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350º F.

2. In a large bowl, add onion, baking powder, oat fiber, oregano, celery salt, parsley, sage, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Whisk to combine.

3. Stir in almond flour and cheddar cheese.

4. Add sausage and stir to combine.

5. Form the meat mixture into equal portions and roll into a ball shape. I like to use a golf ball size as a gauge.

6. Bake in preheated 350º F oven for roughly 12-15 minutes or until cooked all the way through.

7. Serve with your favorite gravy. Enjoy!

Recipe Video

Nutrition Facts

Sausage Stuffing Balls

Amount Per Serving (2 stuffing balls)

Calories 314 Calories from Fat 225

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 25g 38%

Total Carbohydrates 4g 1%

Dietary Fiber 2g 8%

Protein 17g 34%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

A note about oat fiber

Most of the ingredients in this recipe are pretty standard and you probably already have them in your kitchen. One might be new though — oat fiber. This addition is relatively inexpensive, lasts a while, and really adds a lot to my low carb goodies.

In this recipe, the oat fiber adds a bread-like component. It acts as a binder and even gives off a texture that is similar to pastry dough. It also soaks up all of that delicious fat that results in moist and light sausage balls.

Oat fiber can be suitable for almost anyone, including those with Celiac disease. Just make sure that your oat fiber is certified gluten-free if this is the case.

If you’d rather not use oat fiber, you can leave it out. Coconut flour can be substituted in some recipes, but I don’t like the flavor it adds to this specific dish.

I really like the Lifesource brand of oat fiber on Amazon.

Stuffing Balls Tips

• If you find yourself without the oregano, sage and parsley, poultry seasoning can be substituted.
• Make these in advance or reheat the leftovers in the air fryer. They heat up beautifully @ 350º F for 5-8 minutes.
• Nutrition information can vary based on how large you make your stuffing balls — try to keep them consistent. I tend to go for a golf ball size.
• A simple low carb gravy can be made from chicken broth, xanthan gum and cream cheese. Simple and yummy!
• If you’d rather go the traditional route and use bread, I highly recommend the corn bread mix from Good Dee’s (you can save 15% off your entire order with coupon code: nobunpls).

Whether you call it stuffing or dressing, you simply can’t go wrong with my Sausage Stuffing Balls. They’re the perfect side dish for the holidays or on any weekday when you could use a little holiday cheer!

What’s your favorite holiday dish? Comment below!