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 have Southern Style Cornbread Dressing using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Southern Style Cornbread Dressing
- Prepare of Buttermilk cornbread.
- Prepare of corn meal.
- You need of all-purpose flour, use rice flour for GF.
- You need of sugar.
- You need of baking powder.
- It’s of kosher salt.
- Prepare of eggs lightly beaten.
- You need of buttermilk.
- It’s of unsalted butter, melted.
- It’s of Cornbread Stuffing.
- You need of 14 oz bag herb season stuffing mix, Pepperidge Farm makes a great one, there are several GF options if you prefer.
- You need of unsalted butter.
- Prepare of fine chopped onion.
- It’s of chopped celery.
- Prepare of minced garlic.
- You need of chicken or turkey stock.
- It’s of eggs lightly beaten.
- It’s of chopped fresh sage.
- It’s of sprigs thyme, leaves only.
- Prepare of tablespoons poultry seasoning blend.
- You need of salt and pepper to taste.
Use more of the reserved broth as necessary to attain desired consistency. If you don't already have a cornbread recipe, try this southern-style cornbread or this super moist fine-ground cornmeal cornbread. That way, it'll be ready to cook the dressing when you finish preparing it. Secondly, melt the butter in a medium-size saucepan.
Southern Style Cornbread Dressing instructions
for cornbread, grease a 10" cast iron skillet and place in oven and preheat to 425.
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.
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.
for cornbread dressing, preheat oven to 350. in a LARGE stock pot, crumble cornbread and mix in stuffing mix and stir in poultry seasoning.
saute onion and celery in one stick of butter until translucent and stir into cornbread mixture.
melt remaining stick of butter and in a large mixing bowl combine butter, stock, eggs, sage, and thyme.
add stock mixture to cornbread mixture, stir well to thoroughly combine, season with salt and pepper.
pour in to a well greased 9 x 13 casserole dish and bake at 350 uncovered until set, about 45 minutes.
If doing the gluten free version check in early.. It tends to brown faster… Almost had a disaster.
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In another bowl, whisk eggs and broth. Add to bread mixture; stir until moistened. This Southern Style Cornbread Dressing is the perfect side dish for your next holiday gathering. It's savory, flavorful and so easy! My Grandma's Southern Cornbread Dressing Recipe is the perfect addition to any Thanksgiving table.
