Holiday Dressing Recipes

Steps:

• Prepare corn bread as directed on package. Cool, and crumble.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook onions, bell pepper, and celery in butter until tender, but not brown. In another pan, cook sausage over medium-high heat until evenly browned.
• Place corn bread and bread slices in a food processor. Pulse until they turn into a crumbly mixture. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Season with sage, thyme, poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper. Mix in chopped parsley, cooked vegetables, and sausage with drippings. Stir in eggs and chicken stock. This mixture should be a bit mushy. Transfer to a greased 9x13 inch pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 1 hour.

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat and saute the onions, celery, mushrooms and the parsley until tender but not browned.
• In a large mixing bowl, spoon the sauteed vegetables over the bread cubes and then add all the spices and herbs into the mix. Stir.
• Mix the beaten eggs with the chicken stock and add this to the mix a little at a time as you stir carefully. You may not need every bit of the stock-egg blend so be careful to not turn your dressing into soup. You should still be able to discern the bread cubes but they should be fairly wet.
• Transfer the mix into your crock pot (a large one is best) and cover.
• Cook on High for an hour and then reduce to the Low setting and allow it to cook for four to eight more hours until it reaches the consistency that you like.
• If you don't have the Paul Prudhomme seasoning you can use seasoned salt or, better yet, poultry seasoning.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
• 2. In a large baking pan sprayed with Pam combine celery and onion mixture, melted butter, beaten eggs with cornbread, bread crumbs, chicken/turkey broth, poultry seasoning, sage, salt and pepper. The dressing should be pretty soupy to start, so that it doesn't get too dry while cooking. You may need to add more broth.
• 3. Bake, covered, for 35 minutes and uncovered for 10 minutes until browned or until well set and cooked through.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large nonstick skillet cook, sausage, celery and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink, breaking up sausage into crumbles; drain. Remove from heat; stir in mayonnaise, mustard, sage and poultry seasoning., Place bread cubes in a large bowl; add sausage mixture and toss. In a small bowl, whisk eggs and broth; pour over bread cubes and stir gently to combine. Transfer to two 3-qt. baking dishes coated with cooking spray., Bake, covered, 30 minutes. Uncover and bake until lightly browned and a thermometer reads 165°, 12-18 minutes longer. If desired, top with chopped parsley.

Steps:

• 1. Boil chicken in water that has been seasoned with salt and chicken bouillon cubes. Cool the chicken and debone. Shred the chicken into small pieces. Save the broth. Save the giblets for the gravy.
• 2. Make biscuits and cornbread the day before. Let it sit out all night to cool and dry.
• 3. Toast the pecans in butter and grind to fine meal.
• 4. When ready to make dressing, combine crumbled cornbread, biscuits, stuffing mix, chopped chicken, and ground toasted pecans together. Mix well.
• 5. Add the chopped boiled eggs and mix well.
• 6. Cook the sausage until browned. Drain, but save the drippings.
• 7. Mix sausage with cornbread mixture.
• 8. Melt the sausage drippings, bacon drippings, and butter in a skillet.
• 9. Saute the vegetables in the above drippings until tender (do not drain). Add one can of chicken broth (from boiled chicken) and cream of celery soup. Stir over low heat until celery soup is dissolved. Add to the cornbread mixture and mix well.
• 10. Combine seasonings with beaten eggs and add to the cornbread mixture.
• 11. Add enough of the chicken broth to the cornbread mixture to make it soupy.
• 12. Pour into lightly sprayed roasting pan.
• 13. Bake covered in a 325 degree oven for one hour.
• 14. Remove cover and bake uncovered until golden brown. If you like the dressing on the moist side, baste with additional chicken broth once it is uncovered.