Mom’s Cornbread Dressing

Since we were hosting Thanksgiving, I knew I was going to make my mom’s fabulous cornbread dressing. It’s so flavorful, moist and just delicious! I was afraid it wouldn’t be as good as mom’s, because the recipe she gave me was a lot of ingredients “to taste”. So, I was surprised to see that people actually gobbled (hehe..pun) it up!

I wrote ingredients down as I did it, and so this is my version of my mom’s dressing!

Mom’s Cornbread Dressing

Ingredients:

• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• 2 bunches of green onions, finely chopped
• 2 stalks of celery, finely chopped
• 1 green bell pepper, finely chopped
• 4 cloves minced garlic
• 1 9×13 pan of prepared and cooled cornbread (I did this using 6 packs of Jiffy cornbread mix.)
• 1 lb. lean ground meat
• 1 roll of Jimmy Dean reduced fat sausage
• 2 cans of beef broth
• Cajun spice, paprika, salt and pepper to taste (I didn’t measure these…sorry!)

Directions:

1. Saute onions, green onions, bell pepper and celery in a dutch oven until transparent. Add garlic.
2. Brown sausage and beef in another pot until fully cooked and drain fat.
3. Add meat mixture to the onion mixture in the dutch oven.
4. Cut up and crumble cornbread by hand and add it to the pot.
5. Add beef broth about a half can at a time, until the mixture is moist.
6. Add spices to taste.
7. Refrigerate overnight to allow the flavors to meld. The next day, place the dutch oven (covered) in the oven at 350 degrees until the dressing is warm. Serve.