Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, southern style cornbread dressing. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Southern Style Cornbread Dressing is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Southern Style Cornbread Dressing is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have southern style cornbread dressing using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Cornbread Dressing:
- Prepare Buttermilk cornbread
- Get 1 cup corn meal
- Get 1 cup all-purpose flour, use rice flour for GF
- Prepare 3 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp baking powder
- Take 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- Prepare 2 eggs lightly beaten
- Prepare 1 cup buttermilk
- Make ready 1 stick unsalted butter, melted
- Prepare 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
- Prepare 2 cup fine chopped onion
- Take 1 1/2 cup chopped celery
- Prepare 3 clove minced garlic
- Get 5 cup chicken or turkey stock
- Get 5 eggs lightly beaten
- Get 1/4 cup chopped fresh sage
- Prepare 3 sprigs thyme, leaves only
- Take 3 tablespoons poultry seasoning blend
- Prepare 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.
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
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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