Recipe

Delicious Cornbread Dressing Is the Perfect Holiday Side

In the south, don’t even suggest any other kind!

This turkey needs cornbread dressing to complete the traditional Thanksgiving Day meal. Photo by Gabriel Garcia Marengo on Unsplash

Growing up in the south, Thanksgiving meant having turkey and dressing. Traditionally, the dressing had to be cornbread dressing made with buttery, savory cornbread. When I was a teenager, my father was stationed at West Point, New York. It was there that I learned there were other types of dressing.

And I didn’t like them: bread dressing, oyster dressing and one other type of dressing that I don’t know what was in it. No, just no.

If you’ve never had cornbread dressing, you really need to try it. You may never eat any other kind again.

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Quick and Easy Cornbread Dressing

Assembly time: 15 minutes
Bake time: 1 to 1 ½ hours.
Serves 8–10.

Ingredients

1 stick unsalted butter
3 ribs of celery, cut into ¼" slices
½ cup diced onion

1–1 ½ Tablespoon rubbed sage (to taste)
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
1 recipe cornbread, crumbled into chunks and dried out *
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 ½–2 cups chicken stock