Grandma's Cornbread Dressing (2024)

Ready to make the best cornbread dressing of your life? You're in luck! This old-fashioned dressing recipe will quickly become a family favorite.

Cornbread Dressing Ingredients

This dressing recipe comes together quickly with simple ingredients. Here's what you'll need:

• Cornbread: This recipe starts with crumbled cornbread. You can buy pre-made cornbread, make it from a mix, or make a from-scratch cornbread recipe.
• Vegetables: You'll need diced onions and celery.
• Butter: Butter is used to saute the fresh vegetables.
• Eggs: Two eggs add moisture and richness. They also act as a binding agent, which means they help hold the dressing together.
• Stock: Use store-bought or homemade chicken stock for more flavor and moisture.
• Seasonings: This cornbread dressing is seasoned with dried sage, salt, and black pepper. Of course, you can adjust the seasonings to taste.

How to Make Cornbread Dressing

You'll find the full, step-by-step recipe below — but here's a brief overview of what you can expect when you make this top-rated cornbread dressing:

1. Sauté the vegetables in butter until soft.
2. Add the sautéed vegetables to the crumbled cornbread.
3. Stir in the remaining ingredients and mix until well-combined.
4. Transfer the dressing to a prepared baking dish and bake until golden brown.

Test Kitchen Tips

"No frills, just perfection," Nicole McLaughlin (a.k.a. NicoleMcMom) says of this crowd-pleasing cornbread dressing recipe. Here are a few of her takeaways:

• Nicole likes to give the cornbread time to soak up all the flavor and richness from the spices, butter, and stock. She mixes everything up a day in advance, then bakes the dressing the day she plans to serve it.
• Be careful not to bake the dressing too long, as this will dry it out. Bake it just until it's golden brown around the edges.
• "Whenever I use dried herbs in a dish, I like to freshen it up with a sprinkle of parsley at the end," Nicole says. It adds a burst of color and fresh flavor.

How to Store Cornbread Dressing

Transfer the cornbread dressing to an airtight container and store in the refrigerator for three to four days. Reheat in the microwave or in the oven, adding more broth for moisture as necessary.

Allrecipes Community Tips and Praise

"Always a hit," according to delafuenten01. "I always double the recipe but season to my taste, adjusting salt, pepper and sage. I also add poultry seasoning. Love it! This year I made it ahead the night before and warmed it up for about 10 minutes."

"Turned out PERFECTLY," raves Samantha Azar. "Exactly how I remember my Nanny's house smelling for every Thanksgiving and Christmas!"

"It was really good, we had never used sage in our dressing before," says JaLise Haney. "It is a favorite now! I also added red and green bell peppers and a little extra seasoning of my own from our family recipe!"

Editorial contributions by Corey Williams