Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, southern style cornbread dressing. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Southern Style Cornbread Dressing is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Southern Style Cornbread Dressing is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have southern style cornbread dressing using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Cornbread Dressing:
- Get Buttermilk cornbread
- Make ready 1 cup corn meal
- Prepare 1 cup all-purpose flour, use rice flour for GF
- Prepare 3 tbsp sugar
- Get 1 tbsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- Prepare 2 eggs lightly beaten
- Get 1 cup buttermilk
- Prepare 1 stick unsalted butter, melted
- Get Cornbread Stuffing
- Prepare 1 14 oz bag herb season stuffing mix, Pepperidge Farm makes a great one, there are several GF options if you prefer
- Make ready 2 stick unsalted butter
- Take 2 cup fine chopped onion
- Take 1 1/2 cup chopped celery
- Prepare 3 clove minced garlic
- Make ready 5 cup chicken or turkey stock
- Make ready 5 eggs lightly beaten
- Take 1/4 cup chopped fresh sage
- Prepare 3 sprigs thyme, leaves only
- Prepare 3 tablespoons poultry seasoning blend
- Take 1 salt and pepper to taste
Steps to make Southern Style Cornbread Dressing:
- 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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