Heidy's Sage Cornbread Dressing

 I used to love my mom's turkey dressing.  It was somehow made with white bread, celery, and was very wet.  Delicious.  And for a few years I knew how to make it.  But then Heidy showed me how she made her dressing, and it is so delicious that I abandoned my mom's version in favor of this!

The secret ingredient that makes it possible is Jimmy Dean Sage Sausage.  I buy it when it's on sale and put in the freezer until it's time to make this dish!

I have been making it using these ingredients for a few years now:

1/4 cube butter (box calls for 2 sticks of butter or 1 c, but with the sausage it is not needed)

1 c diced onion

1 c diced celery

1 peeled and diced apple

1 tube Jimmy Dean Sage Sausage

1 12 oz box Mrs Cubbison's Corn Bread Stuffing/Seasoned

1 3/4 c chicken broth

1 egg

Directions:

1.  Fry up the Sausage. Remove from heat. Put in a large bowl.

2.  Melt the butter and then in the same pan, fry up the onion and celery. Add the apple and heat a little. Remove from heat. Put in the same large bowl.

3.  Mix the egg in the broth.  Add the corn bread to the cooked sausage and vegetables.  Mix and slowly add the broth/egg.

4.  Transfer to a casserole (or for a more crispy top put in a 9 x 13 baking dish), cover with foil and bake at 350 for 30 min.  Then remove the foil and bake for another 15 minutes.

For an even more delicious casserole add 2 tubes of Jimmy Dean Sausage - and look for a cornbread stuffing mix made with larger squares of cornbread.

We have even had this without turkey or potatoes, but with cranberry sauce for a winter dinner!