Recipe: Delicious Southern Style Cornbread Dressing

Southern Style Cornbread Dressing. Moist and delicious, cornbread dressing makes the perfect side dish! Cornbread dressing could easily take center stage at my family's table during the holidays, especially at Thanksgiving. Combine the crumbled cornbread and stuffing mix in an extra large mixing bowl (or stock pot) and toss to combine.

Also, if your looking to make a Southern Style Cornbread with this, click the link below. Nothing says "welcome home" like the aroma of a fresh baked Southern Cornbread Dressing. In the South you can guarantee there will be dressing on the table (no stuffing. You can cook Southern Style Cornbread Dressing using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Southern Style Cornbread Dressing

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

The dressing is baked in a large baking pan, which is the recommended method. If you choose to cook the stuffing in the bird, see turkey basics: stuffing. This Southern Style Cornbread Dressing is the perfect side dish for your next holiday gathering. It's savory, flavorful and so easy!

instructions Southern Style Cornbread Dressing

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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My easy Traditional Southern-Style Cornbread recipe is perfect for this recipe. Just click on the link for the recipe. A traditional southern cornbread dressing, made with crumbled cornbread and toasted crumbled bread. Southerners sure do love their traditional cornbread dressing and some of them will get all "stuffy" over what constitutes dressing and what constitutes stuffing. This lovely cornbread dressing is the only dressing that my family ever made when I was growing up.