Best Cornbread And Sausage Stuffing Recipes

CORNBREAD AND SAUSAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• One to two days ahead, make one pan of cornbread according to the box instructions. Let this sit out overnight and get a firm (almost hard) crust.
• Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Crumble, drain and set aside.
• In a skillet, cook onion and celery in butter until soft. Remove from heat, allow to cool.
• In a large bowl, combine crumbled cornbread, sausage, onions and celery. Add sage, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Mix well.
• In 1/4 cup increments, add chicken or vegetable broth to stuffing mixture. Toss gently until evenly moist. Loosely stuff in fowl or casserole dish and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 minutes or until heated to 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).

CORNBREAD STUFFING WITH APPLES AND SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in 12-inch skillet.
• Cook sausage for 5 to 7 minutes until browned. Add onions and celery and saute until softened. Add salt and pepper, to taste. Mix in apples, thyme and sage and saute for another 2 minutes. Add bourbon. Allow to simmer until bourbon is almost evaporated; 1 to 2 minutes.
• In a large bowl, add cornbread stuffing, parsley, chicken stock, eggs and pecans. Mix well. Mix in vegetable mixture to bowl. Combine and stir well together. Add to a large casserole dish and bake for 30 minutes.

SWEET AND SAVORY SAUSAGE CORNBREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Set an oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler.
• Add sausage to a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir with a spatula, breaking apart the sausage until cooked, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and set aside.
• Melt butter in the same skillet. Cook onion and celery, stirring constantly, until onion is soft and translucent, 8 to 10 minutes. Add mushrooms and cook for 2 to 3 minutes more. Season with sage, salt, and pepper. Stir in sausage, cornbread, bread cubes, and chicken broth.
• Transfer stuffing to a 2-quart baking dish.
• Broil in the preheated oven until the top is toasted and starts to brown, 2 to 4 minutes.

CORNBREAD AND SAUSAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large nonstick skillet, cook sausage (and giblets, if using) over medium-high heat, stirring often, until browned and cooked through, 5 to 8 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer to a large bowl.
• To pan, add onion, celery, and 1/4 cup water. Reduce heat to medium; cook, scraping up browned bits with a wooden spoon, until vegetables soften, about 10 minutes. Season generously with salt and pepper. Add to sausage.
• Add cornbread, sage, and eggs to sausage and vegetables. Bring broth to a simmer in a small saucepan; pour 1/2 cup over stuffing, and toss gently (cornbread will break down into smaller pieces). If needed, add up to 1/2 cup more broth, until stuffing feels moist, but not wet. Stuff into turkey, using about 4 cups.
• Spoon remaining stuffing into an 8" baking pan; it should reach the top. Bake until top is golden brown, about 45 minutes.

SAUSAGE, BACON, APPLE AND CORNBREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Place the cubed cornbread and bread stuffing mix into a large bowl. Set aside.
• Place the chopped sausage links and ground sausage in a skillet; cook and stir over medium-high heat until evenly browned. Drain, and place sausage into a bowl. Using the same skillet, cook the bacon over medium heat until evenly browned. Drain bacon on paper towels. Drain excess bacon fat from the skillet. Stir the cooked sausage and bacon into the cornbread mixture.
• Using the same skillet, cook the celery and onion over medium heat until transparent and tender, about 5 minutes. Stir into the cornbread mixture.
• Stir the mushrooms, parsley, and apples into the cornbread mixture. Season with salt, pepper, and sage. Pour enough chicken broth over the cornbread mixture to moisten thoroughly, and toss to distribute evenly. Spoon the mixture into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in preheated oven until top is toasted and the center is firm, about 45 minutes.

CORNBREAD AND WILD RICE DRESSING (STUFFING) WITH SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Combine 2 cups of stock, water and rice in a medium saucepan.
• Bring to a boil then turn down heat, cover, and simmer until tender, about 1 hour.
• Drain, put in large mixing bowl with cornbread and set aside.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet.
• Sauté onion, celery, garlic and shallot over medium heat until translucent.
• Add sausage. Brown.
• Add sage, salt, and pepper.
• Add to rice/cornbread mixture. Toss.
• Put mixture into baking dish (10 X 15 works well) drizzle with remaining stock.
• Cook on lower shelf until top is crispy, about 25 minute.

CORNBREAD, APPLE, AND SAUSAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Place cornbread cubes on a baking sheet in a single layer. Bake until dry, about 20 minutes; set aside.
• In a large saute pan over medium heat, cook sausage until it's no longer pink. Transfer to a small bowl; set aside.
• Melt butter in the same saute pan. Add onion and celery, and cook over medium heat until translucent, 10 to 15 minutes. Add apples and cranberries, stir to combine, and cook 5 minutes. Add half-and-half, and cook, stirring for 3 minutes. Add sage, and remove from heat. Transfer to a large bowl. Add cornbread and sausage; stir to combine. Let cool completely before stuffing the turkey, or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.

SAUSAGE, CORNBREAD AND CHERRY STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 4-quart shallow casserole dish with cooking spray.
• Place a large skillet over medium heat. Add the sausage and cook, breaking it up with a wooden spoon and stirring occasionally, until brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove the sausage with a slotted spoon to a paper towel-lined plate. Drain off all but 2 tablespoons of the sausage drippings. Add the butter to the skillet, then add the celery and onions. Cook, scraping up any brown bits that are on the bottom of the skillet, until the vegetables are soft and translucent, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the poultry seasoning, salt and pepper and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes more.
• Transfer the vegetable mixture to a large bowl and add the cornbread and reserved sausage. Add the chicken stock, cherries and eggs. Stir to coat gently and soften the cornbread. (Do not overmix or the cornbread pieces will turn to mush.) Transfer to the prepared casserole dish.
• Bake until the stuffing is set, about 35 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before serving.

SAUSAGE AND SHRIMP CORNBREAD STUFFING CASSEROLE

Steps:

• To make the cornbread: Heat a well-greased 10-inch cast-iron skillet in a 450 degree oven for 6 minutes.
• Meanwhile in a large bowl mix together cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; stir in the eggs with melted butter and buttermilk; mix JUST until moistened.
• Pour the batter into the hot skillet.
• Bake at 450 degrees for 20 minutes or until golden.
• Cool the cornbread completely, then cut into 1-inch cubes.
• Arrange the cubes in a single layer on a large baking sheet.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven for 10-15 minutes until lightly browned; set aside or freeze until ready to use.
• For the stuffing casserole; butter a 13 x 9-inch baking dish and set oven to 350 degrees.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat; add in the chopped yellow onion, jalapeno pepper, garlic, celery and cumin; saute until the onions are tender.
• Add in uncooked shrimp and chopped smoked sausage, green onions and corn; cook stirring constantly until the shrimp begins to turn pink.
• Remove from heat (the shrimp will still be slightly raw!) add in cilantro, milk and eggs, then season with seasoned salt and black pepper.
• Fold in the cornbread cubes; toss lightly to combine.
• Spoon into prepared baking dish.
• Bake for about 30 minutes.
• Delicious!

APPLE AND SAUSAGE CORNBREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Prepare corn muffin mix according to package directions. Cool and crumble.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain and set aside.
• In a large skillet over medium heat, slowly cook and stir the mushrooms, celery, onion and garlic until soft.
• In a large bowl, mix the crumbled prepared corn muffin mix, sausage, mushroom mixture, apple, bread, salt and pepper.
• Transfer the mixture to a medium baking dish. Bake in the preheated oven 45 minutes, or until lightly browned.

CORNBREAD STUFFING WITH SAUSAGE AND APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Brown sausage in an ovenproof saucepot that has a lid. With a slotted spoon, remove sausage from the pot and pour out the drippings. Add the butter to the pot and melt over medium heat. Add onion and celery and cook, until softened. Add apple and cook, until softened. Add herbs and stir. Return sausage to pot. Add croutons and chicken broth and bake stuffing in the oven at 375 degrees F for 30 to 40 minutes.
• Note: A viewer, who may not be a professional cook, provided this recipe. The FN chefs have not tested this recipe and therefore, we cannot make representation as to the results.

CORNBREAD, WILD RICE AND SAUSAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• Sweat vegetables until tender in 1 tbsp butter.
• Make package of rice according to directions on box.
• Remove vegetables to a bowl and then brown sausage in pan until no longer pink.
• put 2 cans of chicken broth and stick of butter into a medium sauce pan and bring to a boil.
• Empty cornbread stuffing mix into large bowl.
• Pour chicken broth mixture over cornbread mixture, toss with fork until liquid is absorbed.
• 7. Toss in rice, celery, onions, and sausage and mix until combined.
• 8. Add poultry seasoning and sage to taste.

OUR FAVORITE THANKSGIVING STUFFING WITH SAUSAGE AND CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F. Butter baking dish; set aside. Arrange bread and cornbread in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake, tossing occasionally, until completely dried out, 35-50 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet, then transfer to a very large bowl.
• Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over medium-high. Break sausage into 1/2" pieces and cook, stirring and breaking up into smaller (about 1/4") pieces with a wooden spoon or spatula, until browned, 8-10 minutes. Transfer to bowl with bread but do not stir.
• Heat remaining 1 stick butter in same skillet over medium-high. Cook onions and celery, stirring often and scraping browned bits off bottom of pan, until just beginning to brown, about 10 minutes. Add to bowl with bread mixture and let cool.
• Whisk eggs, broth, parsley, sage, thyme, rosemary, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl. Add to bread mixture and fold gently until thoroughly combined.
• Increase oven temperature to 350°F. Transfer mixture to prepared dish, cover with foil, and bake stuffing until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center registers 160°F, 40-45 minutes. Uncover and continue to bake until set and top is browned and crisped, 45-50 minutes more.
• Do Ahead
• Stuffing can be assembled, but not baked, 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. When ready to bake, bring to room temperature and bake according to recipe. Stuffing can be baked 1 day ahead. Let cool completely, then cover with foil and chill. Keep covered and bake in a 350°F oven until warmed through, 25-30 minutes. Uncover and bake until top is crisped, 7-10 minutes more.

SAUSAGE AND CORNBREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly mist an 8-inch square baking dish with cooking spray.
• Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat; add the onion, garlic and sausage. Cook, breaking up the sausage with a spoon, until the onion is tender, about 10 minutes. Add the celery and fennel; cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl.
• Toss the vegetable mixture with the pear, herbs, reserved fennel fronds, walnuts and cornbread; season with salt and pepper. Gently toss the stuffing mixture with 1/2 cup broth to moisten (adding more to moisten if needed); transfer to the prepared baking dish. Lightly mist a piece of foil large enough to cover the dish. Pour 1/2 cup broth over the stuffing and cover with the foil.
• Bake for 30 minutes. Uncover the stuffing and bake until golden around edges, about 30 minutes more.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Lightly mist an 8 by 8-inch baking pan with cooking spray. In a medium bowl, stir together the egg white, water and buttermilk; stir in the muffin mix and wheat germ until incorporated. Pour into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center tests clean, 25 to 30 minutes.

CORNBREAD STUFFING WITH SAUSAGE AND APPLES

Steps:

• Sauté sausage until browned.
• Remove from pan and place in a large mixing bowl.
• Sauté onions and celery in butter.
• Add sage, rosemary and thyme.
• When mixture is softened, about 3 minutes, put into bowl with sausage.
• Add the remaining ingredients to the mixing bowl.
• If mixture is too dry, add more stock.
• Stuff into bird, bake along side during last 45 minutes of cooking, or cook in a crockpot on low for up to 3 hrs taking care to stir once in a while and adding more stock or water if it gets dry.

APPLE BRINED PORK CHOPS W/ SAUSAGE AND CORNBREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Brine chops 8 - 24 hours before cooking using recipe #318423.
• Fire up the grill and then make the stuffing. Dump the cornbread into a bowl and set aside. Grab a skillet and melt the butter in it over meduim-high heat. Toss in the onions and peppers and season with salt and pepper. Cook til soft, then toss in the garlic and cook for 1 minute more. Strip the casing off the sausage and crumble it into the skillet. Cook til it loses its pink color, chopping and stirring constantly to break up the pieces. Scrape it all into the corn bread. Mix in the parsley, pecorino romano cheese, and eggs and season it all with thyme, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp pepper.
• Take the chops out of the brine and dry them off. Push 2 large pinches of stuffing into the pocket of each chop. Really stuff it in there tightly, filling it nice and full. Brush the chops with olive oil and season both sides with pepper. See how the grill's doing. Pile the coals to one side. Sear the chops directly over the coals, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Be careful not to overcook them at this point, because it will make them curl up.
• Slide the chops to the other side of the grill, away from the coals. Cover the grill and adjust the heat so that it's about 350 degrees inside. Cook the chops for 45 to 50 minutes. Take their temperature by inserting an instant-read thermometer horizontally into the meat, parallel to and close to the bone without touching it. When it reads 145 degrees, bast the chops with the Mutha Sauce, or your favorite bbq sauce. Cover the grill again and continue cooking for another 10 minutes, or til the internal meat temperature reaches 150 degrees.
• Pull those plump babies off the grill and eat em' up without delay.

APRICOT AND SAUSAGE CORNBREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir sausage in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease.
• Melt 1/2 cup of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and celery; saute until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in apricots and cook for 2 minutes more. Stir in sausage, pecans, and parsley. Remove from heat.
• Melt remaining butter in a small saucepan over medium-low heat.
• Pour crumbled cornbread into a large mixing bowl; add sausage mixture. Stir in melted butter until stuffing feels moist. Let cool to room temperature before using.

CORNBREAD STUFFING WITH SAUSAGE AND CORN NUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Divide cornbread evenly between 2 large rimmed baking sheets and bake, tossing occasionally, until dried out and lightly browned around the edges, 40-50 minutes. Let cool at least 10 minutes. Increase oven temperature to 350°F.
• Meanwhile, cook sausage in a large skillet over medium-high heat, stirring and breaking up with a spoon, until lightly browned and cooked through, 6-8 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
• Reduce heat to medium and melt butter in same skillet. Add onions and celery; season with salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened but not browned, 8-10 minutes. Add garlic and chiles. Cook, stirring once, until very fragrant, about 1 minute. Add corn nuts and cook, stirring often, until very fragrant and vegetables are starting to brown around the edges, about 3 minutes. Add wine and cook, stirring occasionally, until almost completely evaporated, about 3 minutes. Add sage and thyme and toss to combine. Remove from heat.
• Combine cornbread, sausage, and vegetable mixture in a large bowl. Whisk eggs and stock in a medium bowl until very well combined. Pour over cornbread mixture and let sit, gently stirring every minute or so, until cornbread has absorbed all or virtually all of the liquid. Season with salt and pepper (about 1 Tbsp. Diamond Crystal or 1½ tsp. Morton kosher salt).
• Lightly butter a 3-qt. or 13x9x2" baking dish. Transfer stuffing to dish and tap dish lightly against counter to distribute and compact stuffing. Cover tightly with foil and bake until stuffing is very hot throughout and bubbles appear around sides, 40-45 minutes. Increase oven temperature to 425°F and remove foil. Continue to bake stuffing until top is lightly browned, 15-20 minutes longer.
• Do Ahead: Stuffing can be baked at 350°f 3 days ahead. Let cool, then chill. Reheat in a 350°F oven before increasing temperature to 425°F and removing foil.

ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE AND PEPPER CORNBREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. In a large skillet set over medium-high heat, melt 3 tablespoons of the butter. Add the sausage and saute until browned, 5 minutes; transfer to a mixing bowl to cool. Melt the remaining 3 tablespoons butter in the same skillet and add the celery, onions and bell peppers. Cook, stirring, until fragrant and softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in the thyme, salt and pepper and cook for 1 more minute. Add the chicken broth and scrape up any brown bits that have formed on the bottom of the skillet, cooking for an additional minute. Remove from the heat and cool slightly. In a large mixing bowl, combine the cornbread stuffing and cooled veggies and sausage. Add the eggs and mix well. Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking dish. Bake until golden brown on top, 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool 5 to 10 minutes before serving.

GRANDMA NITA'S CORNBREAD STUFFING WITH SAUSAGE AND GIBLET GRAVY

Steps:

• Mix cornmeal, flour, salt, soda, 1 egg, buttermilk, drippings.
• Place in a large cast-iron skillet and bake 25 minutes at 450F or until golden and a toothpick comes out dry.
• While bread is baking, dry out 1/2 loaf of plain bread by baking it in the same oven for a couple minutes.
• When both breads are cool enough to handle, crumble the cornbread and and pull the Italian bread apart in small chunks.
• In a sauce pan, add giblets, salt, pepper, leaves of celery, 1 chopped onion, 1/2 carrot, chopped, bay leaf, and parsley. Place a whole egg in the water as well. Boil for 1/2 hour.
• In a large frying pan, combine pork sausage, 3 chopped onions, and 1/2 stalk celery. Fry until sausage is done and add to the crumbled bread in a large bowl.
• Mix the bread and sausage mixture, and one can of mushrooms with juice, adding about a quarter cup to half cup of the broth from the giblets for moisture.
• Optional: Add an egg to make the stuffing hold together better.
• Add salt, pepper and sage to taste.
• For the gravy, finely dice the boiled egg and the gizzard of the turkey. Grate the liver. Combine with juice from boiling giblets. Turn burner on high and bring to a boil.
• Optional: Add one can of mushrooms.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• For one quart of of gravy, mix four heaping tablespoons of corn starch into a bowl of 1 cup water and mix.
• When the sauce has reached the boil, stir in the starch mixture.