Easy Baked Cornbread Stuffing
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Worried about making stuffing this holiday season? Worry no longer! Anyone can make this Easy Cornbread Stuffing Recipe and take a load off. You can do this; it’s not hard, and I’ll walk you through it! (PS It starts with a box mix so you know it really is simple to make)
This recipe starts with a box of cornbread stuffing mix. This means you don’t have to buy bread or make bread and then cut it up or crumble it and dry it. It’s so easy when you start with a box.
But first, which is which?
The age-old question about this bread dish we make at Thanksgiving is whether it’s stuffing or dressing.
The answer is whether it’s stuffed in the bird, which is stuffing. OR whether it’s baked in a separate pan, which is dressing.
But colloquially, dressing and stuffing are used for both versions, and no one blinks an eye. So bake a dish of stuffing and add some dressing to your turkey, we all know exactly what you mean.
What you need to make Easy Baked Stuffing
The ingredients to make dressing are easy to find. You should be able to pick them up in any grocery store.
- cornbread stuffing mix
- onion
- celery
- poultry seasoning or
Italian seasoning (they’re very similar!) - butter
- salt
- chicken broth or use homemade turkey broth or any broth really
- frying pan
- casserole dish
- aluminum foil (for baking)
Can I use this Cornbread recipe to stuff a turkey?
This recipe can definitely be stuffed in a turkey! It’s generally the same mixture, whether it goes in a bird or it goes in a casserole.
To put it in a turkey, simply make the dressing as directed. When you’re ready to cook the bird, stuff the dressing in the bird and bake as directed for a stuffed bird.
Other Tasty Recipe Thanksgiving Recipes We love
We are more of a Prime Rib Roast kind of family but we still love dressing too! Are you a Mashed Potato or a Sweet Potato Casserole kind of family?
And you know I am going to point you toward the best damn Old Fashioned Pecan Pie Recipe, right? It’s corn syrup free and the flavor is out of this world!! I have a Maple version and a Bourbon version, too. Both are also corn syrup free!
Got Leftovers?
If you have leftover dressing OR stuffing, you can store it in airtight containers in the fridge. We use and love these Pyrex dishes, they’re glass with plastic lids, so handy for most if not all, leftovers.
And be sure to use the leftovers to make these dressing or stuffing waffles! So delicious when dipped in leftover gravy!
Baked Dressing
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter divided
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 tsp poultry seasoning or use italian seasoning
- 1 tsp garlic granules or garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp salt more to taste
- 1 3/4 cup chicken broth use whatever you like best or have on hand or homeade stock
- 12 ounce corn bread stuffing mix I used Mrs. Cubbison's
Instructions
- preheat the oven to 350°
- butter a 9×13 baking dish, set aside
- heat 3/4 cup of butter in a large frying pan
- add the onion and celery
- cook and stir until the onion and celery is soft
- add the garlic, seasoning, and salt
- turn off the heat
- stir in the stufing mix
- slowly add enough of the broth to make a very moist stuffing
- taste the stuffing, add more salt, herbs or garlic as needed
- spoon the stuffing into the prepared baking dish
- dot with remaining 1/4 cup of butter
- cover with foil
- bake for 30-45 minutes
- serve hot
