How to Make Appetizing Southern Style Cornbread Dressing

Southern Style Cornbread Dressing. A great Southern-style dressing starts with cornbread that's baked in a skillet for a crisp, golden crust. Our simple recipe can be made up to a month ahead if stored in the freezer. For best results, prepare the cornbread up to two days in advance so it can dry out completely.

You can prepare it the day ahead and cover tightly, if you'd like. This Southern Style Cornbread Dressing is the perfect side dish for your next holiday gathering. It's savory, flavorful and so easy! You can have Southern Style Cornbread Dressing using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Southern Style Cornbread Dressing

1. You need of Buttermilk cornbread.
2. Prepare 1 cup of corn meal.
3. Prepare 1 cup of all-purpose flour, use rice flour for GF.
4. You need 3 tbsp of sugar.
5. You need 1 tbsp of baking powder.
6. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of kosher salt.
7. You need 2 of eggs lightly beaten.
8. Prepare 1 cup of buttermilk.
9. It's 1 stick of unsalted butter, melted.
10. Prepare of Cornbread Stuffing.
11. You need 1 of 14 oz bag herb season stuffing mix, Pepperidge Farm makes a great one, there are several GF options if you prefer.
12. It's 2 stick of unsalted butter.
13. You need 2 cup of fine chopped onion.
14. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of chopped celery.
15. It's 3 clove of minced garlic.
16. You need 5 cup of chicken or turkey stock.
17. You need 5 of eggs lightly beaten.
18. It's 1/4 cup of chopped fresh sage.
19. You need 3 of sprigs thyme, leaves only.
20. You need 3 of tablespoons poultry seasoning blend.
21. It's 1 of salt and pepper to taste.

Mia's southern-style cornbread dressing is definitely one of my favorite parts of our Thanksgiving traditions. Cornbread dressing is a staple on Thanksgiving tables every year, and this recipe is one of our favorites. Whether you call it dressing or stuffing, this dish is practically required at Thanksgiving. This recipe makes one large and one small pan of dressing, so it's ideal for extremely large families.

Southern Style Cornbread Dressing step by step

1. for cornbread, grease a 10" cast iron skillet and place in oven and preheat to 425.
2. in large mixing bowl combine dry ingredients for cornbread, in separate bowl whisk together wet ingredients and then combine with dry ingredients. stir until just incorporated.
3. pour batter in preheated skillet and smooth to edges, bake until golden but not over dry, about 16 minutes. remove from skillet immediately to completely cool.
4. for cornbread dressing, preheat oven to 350. in a LARGE stock pot, crumble cornbread and mix in stuffing mix and stir in poultry seasoning.
5. saute onion and celery in one stick of butter until translucent and stir into cornbread mixture.
6. melt remaining stick of butter and in a large mixing bowl combine butter, stock, eggs, sage, and thyme.
7. add stock mixture to cornbread mixture, stir well to thoroughly combine, season with salt and pepper.
8. pour in to a well greased 9 x 13 casserole dish and bake at 350 uncovered until set, about 45 minutes.
9. If doing the gluten free version check in early.. It tends to brown faster... Almost had a disaster.
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This is an excellent recipe if you are familiar with southern cornbread but never cooked it and want to try with a basic recipe. In the South you can guarantee there will be dressing on the table (no stuffing down here!) and one of the most popular dressings is cornbread. We've developed a special Cornbread Crumble recipe specifically for this Southern Cornbread Dressing. Our cornbread is a little-bit sweet, but it blends perfectly with the celery, onions, and sage. Recipe: Southern Cornbread DressingMaking dressing with Mama will ensure you know her secret ingredients.