Mama's Southern Cornbread Dressing

Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 65 min
Servings: 14
Yield: 14 servings

Description

This Southern cornbread dressing combines Thanksgiving favorites like turkey, giblets, and cornbread into a side dish that everyone will enjoy.

Ingredients

8 cups crumbled cornbread
4 cups cubed stale bread
1 cup butter, melted
2 large onions, chopped
1 1/2 cups chopped celery
2 cups turkey broth, or as needed
1 1/2 cups chopped cooked turkey
1 (10 3/4 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup
4 large hard-cooked eggs, chopped
1/4 cup chopped, cooked turkey giblets
4 tablespoons self-rising flour
4 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
2 teaspoons chopped fresh sage, or to taste
2 large bay leaves
salt and ground black pepper to taste
3 large eggs

Directions

1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9x13-inch baking dishes.
2 Combine cornbread and stale bread cubes in a large bowl; set aside.
3 Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onions and celery; cook and stir until translucent, 5 to 10 minutes.
4 Add onion mixture, turkey broth, chopped turkey, soup, hard-cooked eggs, giblets, and flour to cornbread mixture; stir until all cornbread wet. Stir in parsley, sage, bay leaves, salt, and pepper. Add beaten eggs; stir to combine. Mixture should be "soupy." Divide evenly and pour into the prepared pans.
5 Bake in the preheated oven until cooked through and set, 1 hour to 1 hour and 20 minutes.