This Southern Cornbread Dressing is perfect served along side your holiday turkey or ham this season!

The holidays are approaching! Families will soon gather together to celebrate the holiday season over plenty of good food, fun, and festivities.
One of my favorite memories as a little girl was celebrating the holiday season with my family, especially when my cousins would come over. I remember watching the parades in the morning on t.v. and then eating a late holiday lunch.
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Afterwards, we would head outside to play. We would throw the football around to each other or play games of hide and seek.
The adults – my aunts and uncles, were usually assigned with the harder tasks. They were to each bring a special dish to the gathering as a contribution so that the responsibilities of cooking, which is a big responsibility, didn’t fall on just one person.
This tradition made it easier on everyone and the family had plenty of time to visit with each other and enjoy each other’s company.
Thankfully after I married my husband, I noticed that his family carried on the same traditions. It’s a beautiful thing to see everyone pitch in to provide the holiday meals each season. Everyone contributes their favorite dish and we all gather together to enjoy conversations and plenty of laughs.
I’m also thankful that my side of the family and my husband’s side of the family are great cooks! As I get older, I cherish the recipes that are created with love in the kitchen that have been passed on by mothers and grandmothers in the family.
As a kid, it’s easy to overlook how much hard work goes into each dish that’s prepared over the holidays, but now that I have kids of my own, I can only hope to pass these family recipes down to my own kids. They will be able to prepare these special dishes for their own families as the recipes and traditions get passed down.
This holiday season, I’ll be making a Southern Cornbread Dressing Recipe with Homestyle Herbed Gravy to serve with a glazed baked ham. This particular dressing recipe is my husband’s favorite. He says that out of all of the side dishes that are served during the holidays, the dressing side dish is the dish he looks forward to the most!

I can understand why. It is moist and flavorful and a perfect addition to any holiday meal this season. Serve this dressing alongside of turkey, baked ham, roast and all of the traditional sides that are served during holiday meals.
I am thankful for my mother-in-law who passed down her grandmother’s dressing recipe to my family. She wrote it down for me a few years back to keep in my recipe box! I will be forever grateful and this will be my go-to dressing recipe for years to come.

For this dressing recipe, I give you step by step instructions and photos so that you can follow along and learn how to create your own Southern Cornbread Dressing Recipe this holiday season!
Southern Cornbread Dressing
Ingredients:
- 1 9X9 pan of cornbread (here’s my homemade cornbread recipe)
- 8 slices of toasted bread
- 1 12 count (12 oz.) can of small biscuits baked
- 1 cup green onions chopped (3 stalks)
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 1/4 cup melted butter
- 3 tbsp. rubbed sage
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground pepper
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Gather the baked biscuits, toasted bread, and cornbread.

3. Crumble the biscuits into a large mixing bowl.

4. Crumble the toasted bread into a large mixing bowl on top of the biscuits.

5. Crumble the cornbread into the large mixing bowl on top of the bread.

6. Add salt, ground pepper and rubbed sage.

7. Add both onions.


8. Add eggs, butter, and chicken stock to the mixture.


9. Stir mixture together until mixture is combined well and moist.


10. Place mixture in a casserole pan and press mixture down with large spoon until even.

11. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until golden brown.


Southern Cornbread Dressing

Ingredients
- 1 9X9 pan of cornbread (here’s my homemade cornbread recipe)
- 8 slices of toasted bread
- 1 12 count (12 oz.) can of small biscuits baked
- 1 cup green onions chopped (3 stalks)
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 1/4 cup melted butter
- 3 tbsp. rubbed sage
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground pepper
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Gather the baked biscuits, toasted bread, and cornbread.
3. Crumble the biscuits into a large mixing bowl.
4. Crumble the toasted bread into a large mixing bowl on top of the biscuits.
5. Crumble the cornbread into the large mixing bowl on top of the bread.
6. Add salt, ground pepper, and rubbed sage.
7. Add both onions.
8. Add eggs, butter, and chicken stock to the mixture.
9. Stir mixture together until mixture is combined well and moist.
10. Place mixture in a casserole pan and press mixture down with large spoon until even.
11. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until golden brown.
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Did you know that dressing is also a popular recipe to serve at Christmas? This dressing recipe is PERFECT for serving at your holiday lunch or dinner this year!
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Wow, this southern cornbread recipe looks amazing! Pinning for future use! Thanks for sharing!
Christine 🙂
Oh this must rally flavorful. Perfect to go along with some turkey. I really have to try it!
Tasty! I love that this stuffing uses three different kinds of bread. I’m sure it’s filled with flavor too.
Around here, we call it stuffing and I love a good cornbread stuffing on Thanksgiving. This sounds so good.
I’ve never had cornbread dressing before, but I’m a huge cornbread fan, so I know I’d love it!
Now you’re talking Thanksgiving! YUMMY! This stuffing and gravy looks and sounds delicious!
I love me some southern food!! This sounds amazing!
I always look forward to the stuffing every Thanksgiving. This stuffing and the gravy looks perfect for turkey day.
I have never seen a corn bread recipe like this before. Definitely unique, I bet it tastes delicious!
This stuffing sounds so delicious. This is a recipe that I would like to try
I love it when recipes are passed down in the family. They are the best. This looks delicious.
What a fantastic stuffing recipe! There are so many tasty seasonings… what a treat for a holiday dinner.
This would be perfect for Thanksgiving dinner! Love this idea!
PERFECT for Thanksgiving! That stuffing and gravy looks EXCELLENT.
ugh, this looks so amazing. Going to save this and try to make it
Yum! This stuffing looks delicious. I should try this recipe tomorrow for Thanksgiving!
My dad is such a stuffing guy, but we’ve never made it with homemade breadcrumbs. This looks delish and I always keep all of these McCormick seasonings on hand so I really should try doing it from scratch!
This is a great Southern recipe! It makes me miss living in Texas. So much delicious food in the south, especially all things cornbread! 🙂 Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Dressing is my favorite part of Thanksgiving and Christmas!