Cutting Bread for Vegetarian Stuffing

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Lori with Figs Catering in Austin, TX on behalf of Expert Village. Today we're going to show you how to make an entire Thanksgiving meal. The first step in making your stuffing is to cut up all of your bread and because we're making a sour dough bread stuffing we got sour dough bread here to cut. Now you can use any kind of bread really for your stuffing and you can actually do this ahead of time because we're going to dry it out you can do this 2-3 days ahead of time and that way it's ready to go. So now that we got some slices I'm just going to line them up and I'm going to make long cuts down the length of the slices. I guess I'm cutting these into about half inch by half inch squares, and that is so that it's easy to eat. Now I'm going to cut it the other way so I got little cubes, so here we got our bread all nice and cut up into cubes, ready to be baked off. The next step in our vegetarian mushroom stuffing is to take our sour dough bread that we've already cut up into cubes and we're going to place it in the oven for about 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. The purpose of doing this is to section out any of the moisture that we got left in our bread. And what happens is whenever we go to cook it that moisture is going to replace it with mushroom stock and juices from the different vegetables that we got going on. Our bread is done because we got a nice golden color to it also when I break it there's actually no moisture left in what so ever. It's pretty darn hard. That is exactly how we want our bread because it's going to soak up even more moisture and flavor in our stuffing."