Vegetarian Cornbread Stuffing Food

VEGETARIAN DRESSING

Steps:

• Place bread cubes in an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes, stirring twice. Set aside., Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook celery and onion in butter over medium heat until tender. Stir in the cranberries, salt, rosemary, thyme, sage, poultry seasoning and pepper; cook 2 minutes longer., In a large bowl, combine bread cubes and celery mixture. Add broth and combine., Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Cover and bake at 350° for 25 minutes. Uncover; bake 10-15 minutes longer or until lightly browned.

VEGETARIAN CORNBREAD STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a casserole dish.
• Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add onion and celery and cook until onion is soft and translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Combine sauteed onion mixture, cornbread stuffing, applesauce, marjoram, thyme, and lemon pepper in a large bowl. Pour in boiling water and mix to combine. Transfer to the prepared casserole dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until stuffing is lightly browned on top, about 30 minutes.

VEGETARIAN SAUSAGE APPLE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Spray a large casserole dish with non-stick spray.
• In a large bowl, add the stuffing crumbs, salt, pepper and bell's seasoning.
• Toss to mix well.
• In a large skillet, heat the butter, margarine or oil over medium heat.
• Add the celery and saute for a minute or two.
• Then add the onions, and saute another few minutes.
• Add the chopped sausage patties, the apple, and the nuts, and keep sauteeing until the onions are transluscent, the apples are just barely cooked through and the nuts are lightly toasted.
• Remove from the heat and pour this whole mixture into the stuffing crumb mixture.
• Toss all together to blend well.
• Boil the water and add the broth mix or cubes to the water and stir to dissolve.
• Add about half of the broth to the stuffing mixture and stir.
• Keep adding broth and mixing it in until the whole mixture is moistened to the stuffing consistency you like.
• Then add a little more of the broth to compensate for evaporation while it's baking.
• You don't want this too mushy.
• Taste and adjust seasonings.
• Dump the whole bowl of stuffing into the baking dish and spread out evenly.
• You can cover it at this point and refrigerate it until you're ready to bake it.
• Bake at 350 for about 30-40 minutes, until heated throughout and a bit crispy on top.
• If you need to keep it warm in the oven, keep it covered with a pan cover or aluminum foil.
• NOTES: Bell's Seasoning: Bell's seasoning is a fantastic chicken and stuffing seasoning mix that's been around for ages.
• I've seen it touted as Martha Stewart's secret stuffing ingredient, but my family's been using it forever, long before she was Martha Stewart!
• If you can't find it, it's a mixture of rosemary, oregano, sage, ginger, marjoram, thyme and pepper.
• If you can't get Bell's, use a mixture to your taste of whatever of those seasonings you can get your hands on, and go a little bit heavy on the sage.
• Bread Mixture: You want the stuffing mix that is just the cornbread crumbs or dried cubes, you don't want a Stovetop type mix.
• You can substitute 1/2 to 3/4 of a loaf of fresh bread, cubed, mixed with and 8x8" pan of crumbled cornbread.
• If using fresh bread, you'll need much less broth, and you might want to go a bit heavier on the seasonings.
• Taste first and see.
• Soy"sausage" patties: You can omit this completely if you desire and still have a great stuffing.
• Broth Mix: This is my secret to vegetarian cooking.
• The kosher broth mixes come in powder form in jars, and can be found in the kosher food section of the supermarket.
• Carmel Kosher and Manischewitz are two of the more popular brands.
• There are no mean products in them whatsover, and they are not only vegetarian, they are vegan too (I checked).
• They come in chicken, beef, onion, mushroom, and other flavors.
• And I personally like them better than the kinds that have meat in them.
• If you don't want to use them, then a vegetable broth mix would work fine.
• But I like the richness they can give to many vegetarian dishes.

BLACK FOLKS CORNBREAD DRESSING RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the conventional oven or Instant Pot Omni Plus oven to bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes (although you may not use all of this time for melting the butter).
• Place the 4 tablespoons of butter in an 8-inch skillet and melt in the oven for approximately 5 minutes.
• While the butter is melting, combine the Jiffy cornbread mix, sugar, cream cheese, and heavy cream in a medium-size mixing bowl.
• Pour the melted butter from the skillet into the mixing bowl and mix all the ingredients together.
• Pour the cornbread mixture into the skillet.
• Bake at 350 degrees F. In the conventional oven for 25-30 minutes. Instant Pot Omni Plus oven for 23-25 minutes.
• When the baking time has finished, allow the cornbread to cool for approx 10 minutes.
• Cut the bread lengthwise and then across into 1-inch bread cubes and set aside.
• Grease an 8″ or similar-sized baking dish and set it aside.
• Remove the lid from the Instant Pot and turn on the sauté setting for 8 minutes.
• With the lid off, melt ¼ cup of butter.
• Add the chopped onion, celery, thyme, rosemary, and sage.
• Stir to coat the vegetables in the herbs and melted butter and then sauté until they soften and slightly brown.
• Add the chicken stock, salt, and pepper to the inner pot's simmer, and stir to combine.
• Remove the herb mixture from heat and set aside.
• Allow the mixture to cool to the touch so that it can be mixed with the egg. (You don't want the egg to cook from the residual heat and scramble!)
• While the herbs are cooling off, beat the egg with the parsley in a medium-sized bowl.
• Gently fold in the cornbread cubes to coat with the egg.
• Pour in the cooled herb mixture into the egg mixture.
• Transfer the mixture to the pre-greased baking dish.
• Cut the 2 tablespoons of butter into small pats and place them all around on top of the dressing.
• Cover the baking dish with foil and bake at 350 degrees F. 35 minutes in the conventional oven. In the Instant Pot Omni Plus oven for 30 minutes.
• Uncover and bake until golden, 10-15 more minutes (conventional oven), 10 minutes (Instant Pot Omni Plus oven).
• Serve cornbread dressing warm, and enjoy!
• Optional - serve with gravy on top.