Recipe: Perfect Southern Style Cornbread Dressing

Southern Style Cornbread Dressing.

You can have Southern Style Cornbread Dressing using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Southern Style Cornbread Dressing

1. It's of Buttermilk cornbread.
2. You need of corn meal.
3. It's of all-purpose flour, use rice flour for GF.
4. Prepare of sugar.
5. You need of baking powder.
6. It's of kosher salt.
7. You need of eggs lightly beaten.
8. It's of buttermilk.
9. It's of unsalted butter, melted.
10. Prepare of Cornbread Stuffing.
11. It's of 14 oz bag herb season stuffing mix, Pepperidge Farm makes a great one, there are several GF options if you prefer.
12. Prepare of unsalted butter.
13. You need of fine chopped onion.
14. Prepare of chopped celery.
15. You need of minced garlic.
16. It's of chicken or turkey stock.
17. Prepare of eggs lightly beaten.
18. It's of chopped fresh sage.
19. It's of sprigs thyme, leaves only.
20. You need of tablespoons poultry seasoning blend.
21. You need of salt and pepper to taste.

Southern Style Cornbread Dressing step by step

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.
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