Sausage-Stuffed French Loaves

By á-170456

Ingredients

• 2 fat, long loaves of French bread
• 8 ounces bulk pork sausage
• 8 ounces ground beef chuck
• 1 medium yellow onion diced
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
• 1/4 teaspoon fennel seeds
• Salt to taste
• Freshly-ground black pepper to taste
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 garlic cloves crushed

Details

Servings 36

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Cut the ends of the loaves and set aside. Hollow out the loaves with your fingers or with the aid of a long serrated knife. Place the soft bread interior in a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse on and off to make coarse crumbs.

Brown the sausage in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Add the beef and onion, then cook until the beef is lightly browned.

Combine the bread crumbs, meat mixture, egg, mustard, parsley, fennel salt and pepper in a large bowl. Spoon the mixture into the bread shells; reattach the bread ends with small skewers.

Melt the butter over medium heat and stir in the garlic. Sauté for 30 seconds, then brush the loaves with this garlic butter. Wrap loaves in separate pieces of aluminum foil, leaving the foil slightly opened at the top.

Bake until heated through, 15 to 20 minutes. To serve, cut loaves into 1-inch slices.

This recipe yields about 36 pieces.

Per serving: 100 calories, 14g carbohydrate, 5g protein, 3g fat, 15mg cholesterol.