How to Prepare Tasty Crab and Sausage Cornbread Dressing

Crab and Sausage Cornbread Dressing. #SouthernCooking is the best, especially for #HolidayCooking. A traditional southern cornbread dressing, made with crumbled cornbread and toasted crumbled bread. Add a cornucopia of vegetables, herbs, and sausage to packaged cornbread mix for a heart-warming, filling dish.

Cornbread dressing has long been a popular side on the Southern Thanksgiving table. I decided to make my Cornbread Dressing with Sausage this weekend so you can have the recipe in time for T-Day but also to show you how easy it is to make anytime you want it. And if you use rich, high quality broth like College Inn (they even have Turkey Broth - holla!) it will taste just like something you. You can cook Crab and Sausage Cornbread Dressing using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Crab and Sausage Cornbread Dressing

1. It's 6 Boxes of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix.
2. You need 6 of Eggs.
3. It's 2 Cups of Milk.
4. It's 1 Lb of Jimmy Dean or Park Sage Sausage.
5. Prepare 1 Lb of Lump Crab Meat.
6. You need 1 Box of Chicken Stock.
7. It's 1 Qt of Buttermilk.
8. It's 1 of Each Diced Red, Yellow, Orange Peppers.
9. It's 1 of Large Diced Onion.
10. It's 4 of Large Chopped Cloves Garlic.
11. You need to Taste of Poultry Seasoning.
12. You need 4 Stalks of Diced Celery.

This tasty cornbread dressing is easy to make in the slow cooker. The cornbread in this sausage and fennel dressing can be made weeks in advance. Cornbread and sausage stuffing (or dressing) is a very personal thing, and hands down, the best version I've ever had was the one my mother-in-law makes. Her classic southern recipe is the perfect savory sidekick to a well-cooked turkey.

Crab and Sausage Cornbread Dressing step by step

1. Mix Corn Muffin Mix, Eggs and Milk into a batter and pour into a well greased casserole pan and bake as per instructions on the box about 30 to 45 minutes. After it is done and cools crumple it up and put in a covered dish on the counter for about 24 hours so it goes slightly stale..
2. Fry Sausage in a skillet till fully cooked and drain. Set aside..
3. In a 12 quart stock pot add a half a stick of butter and melt it. Add the veggies and sauté till slightly soft..
4. Add the Sausage and Crab Meat and combine with the veggies in the pot..
5. Add the Garlic and Poultry Seasoning (to taste as it’s strong stuff) and combine with the other ingredients in the pot..
6. Add the Butter Milk and Chicken Stock to the pot and stir it all up..
7. Add the Crumbled Corn Bread in stages and insure you fully incorporate it all into the pot with all the other good stuff. It’ll be a bit mushy and wet but it’s supposed to be that way..
8. Pour the contents of the entire pot into a well greased casserole dish..
9. Keep covered in fridge till ready to cook and serve it. When ready preheat your oven to 350 degrees and once heated put casserole in and back for 30 to 45 minutes. Voila! Your done!.

Making this classic recipe is super simple. Everyone who has ever tasted her dressing falls in love. So, when the Cookies asked for a Southern Cornbread Dressing recipe I got nervous instantly! Sausage cornbread dressing is a Southern classic recipe that is popular during Thanksgiving. Share: Rate this Recipe This dressing is baked outside the turkey, not inside the cavity.