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Chestnut & bacon cake
Photo: David Holifield

Chestnut & bacon cake

9 ingredients 20 min Serves 8, plus 250g extra to stuff a 5kg turkey openrecipes
Chestnut & bacon cake

Festive, flavoursome and filling, this chestnut and bacon stuffing is a winner

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1027
Calories
36g
Protein
48g
Fat
109g
Carbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Pork Sausage 100g cooked 301
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Bacon 1 slice cooked (8g) 43
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Sunflower Oil not in our table 0
Chestnut not in our table 0
Meat not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 3 onions , finely chopped
  • 8 smoked, dry-cured streaky bacon rashers, chopped
  • 200g vacuum-packed chestnuts , most roughly chopped, plus 100g more for the top, halved, if you like
  • 450g pack good-quality pork sausages , meat squeezed out
  • 140g breadcrumbs
  • 2 thyme sprigs, leave picked
  • 1 egg , beaten
  • 1 tsp butter , melted

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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