Best Upside Down Sausage Apple Cornbread Recipes

APPLE SAUSAGE AND CORNBREAD DRESSING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 9×13-inch baking dish with butter. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, drizzle the cornbread cubes with the melted butter, and stir to combine.
• Meanwhile, cook the sausage in a medium skillet over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until browned and cooked through, about 6-8 minutes. Transfer the cooked sausage to a plate.
• Add the onion to the skillet, and cook over medium heat, stirring often, until beginning to soften, 2-3 minutes. Add the celery and apple, and continue to cook, until tender and just golden, another 2-3 minutes.
• Add the cooked sausage, onion, celery, and apple to the cornbread mixture, followed by the spices, and stir to combine. Slowly pour the broth or water over top, and stir until evenly moistened. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Pour the dressing into the prepared baking dish, and spread into an even layer.
• at this point, simply cover tightly with aluminum foil, and refrigerate for up to two days before baking.
• cover with aluminum foil, and bake until cooked through, about 35 minutes.⁴ Remove the foil, and continue baking for an additional 10-15 minutes, until the top is crisp and golden. Serve warm.

SAUSAGE & APPLE CORNBREAD BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink, 6-8 minutes, breaking into crumbles; drain. Transfer to a greased 8-in. square baking dish. Top with apples., In a small bowl, combine muffin mix, milk and egg just until moistened. Pour over apples. Bake, uncovered, until edges are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 30-40 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Serve with maple syrup., Make-Ahead: Refrigerate unbaked casserole, covered, several hours or overnight. To use, preheat oven to 400°. Remove casserole from refrigerator while oven heats. Bake as directed, increasing time as necessary until edges are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Serve with syrup.

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.
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UPSIDE-DOWN SAUSAGE-APPLE CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Grease bottom and sides of a 8" or 9" square baking pan.
• Brown the sausages in a medium skillet over moderately high heat, rotating them until browned and cooked through.
• Remove the sausage and discard all but 2 tablespoons of the drippings.
• Add butter and brown sugar to the pan.
• Heat, stirring until sugar is melted.
• Add apples and saute them over moderate heat, turning occasionally, until soft (about 10 min).
• Arrange sausages in rows across the prepared pan.
• Insert the apple slices, round side down, between the sausages, wedging them in tightly.
• Pour over juices from the skillet (the pan can be covered and refrigerated overnight at this point, if desired).
• Bring to room temperature before proceeding.
• Preheat oven to 400°F
• To make cornbread, stir together the flour, cornmeal, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
• Add the egg, melted butter and milk.
• Stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.
• Pour the batter over the sausage and apples, smoothing the top to cover well.
• Bake for 25 minutes or until cake tester inserted in middle comes out clean.
• Remove from oven.
• Immediately invert onto a serving dish.
• Cut into squares and serve.

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.

AUNT BETTY'S APPLE UPSIDE DOWN CORN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 F.
• For topping, heat butter and syrup in an iron skillet. Add apples and cook slightly 5 minutes. Arrange in the bottom of the skillet.
• For cornbread:.
• Combine all dry ingredients and form a "well" in the center.
• Beat together wet ingredients in the well. Stir until just combined. Spread gently over the apples.
• Bake 30-35 minutes. Test with a toothpick for doneness.
• Cool for 5 minutes. Invert on a plate.
• Serve warm with butter and syrup.

SAUSAGE UPSIDE DOWN CORNBREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400. Cook sausage, onion, and pepper in a skllet until sausage is brown and crumbly. Stir in flour. Mix in next 4 ingredients. Remove from heat and stir in cheese and olives. Spread evenly in a 9 inch square pan, sprayed with vegetable spray. Prepare muffin mix according to package directions; spread over sausage. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Let stand in pan 5 minutes; loosen edges. Invert onto plate. Serve immediately.

APPLE CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Mix dry ingredients; set aside.
• In another bowl, combine milk, egg, and shortening (you may want to warm the milk slightly to keep the shortening from clumping back up, but not too much or you'll cook the egg).
• Add cornmeal mixture to wet ingredients.
• Add apple and stir gently; batter will be very thick.
• Pour into greased 9x9" pan and bake at 425 for 20-25 minutes.
• (To make sure it cooks through in the middle, since it is a heavier-than-usual cornbread batter, you may want to check about 20 min-- if the center still seems uncooked, cover with foil to prevent overbrowning and increase cook time as needed).

SAUSAGE UPSIDE-DOWN CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Brown sausage, onion, and green pepper in a large skillet until sausage is brown and crumbly.
• Stir in the flour, then add the next four ingredients.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in cheese cubes and olives.
• Pour mixture into a 9" square pan.
• Prepare cornbread mix with eggs and milk, or according to package directions.
• Spread cornbread batter over sausage mixture.
• Bake 30-35 minutes.
• Let stand in pan for 5 minutes, then loosen edges with a spatula.
• Invert onto a plate or platter.
• Serve warm.