Southern Style Cornbread Dressing
Southern Style Cornbread Dressing

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, southern style cornbread dressing. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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 down here!) and one of the most popular dressings is cornbread. Even though there are many similarities, traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing is different from "stuffing" for a few reasons. Stuffing is typically known to be a bit herbier, with sage being the stand-out herb used.

Southern Style Cornbread Dressing is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Southern Style Cornbread Dressing is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have southern style cornbread dressing using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

Blend with a potato masher until the mixture is the consistency of gelatin. Use more of the reserved broth as necessary to attain desired consistency. 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.

Instructions to make 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

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. 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.

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