Cornbread Mushroom Stuffing
- 4 cups stale cornbread crumbs (Make the bread yourself to avoid cornbread with wheat flour)
- 2 cups vegetable stock
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 tblsp olive oil
- 2 tblsp died fresh rosemary, or dry equivalent
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp freshly ground pepper
- 1 cup diced mushrooms
- 1 green chili from a can (You can use fresh ones, but I only found canned up here in the mountains)
- 2-4 eggs
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan (not the Kraft bottle if you can avoid it)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a frying pan, heat the olive oil until a drop of water sizzles in it and add the onions. Caramelize them. Add mushrooms and sauté them. Add rosemary, stir. Remove from heat.
Mix the stale or toasted cornbread crumbs with the onion-mushroom mixture, salt and pepper, and diced green chili. Crack 2-4 eggs into the mixture. Eggs add moisture and hold the stuffing together - you can decide on the calorie-fat-tastiness trade off. Mix well.
Put stuffing mixture in a casserole dish, pour the vegetable stock over it, cover and bake for about 25 minutes. Add the Parmesan to the top and bake until the stuffing is done.
Other great references for cornbread stuffing:
Gluten A Go Go (sounds yummy - I'll try it for our January Turkey feast)
Kizzie's New England Cornbread stuffing (Not vegetarian, watch out for pop ups on this site!)
Coming for Dinner (It's a turduckon supporting recipe - I couldn't resist!)
Brad Edmond's Take on Stuffing:
Giving Thanks to Family, Friends, and the Market
But I also owe thanks to thousands of other people, without whom the Thanksgiving dinner I eat - along with most other meals I enjoy - would be beyond my reach. ...
My mom's oyster stuffing is but one example of this miracle. It is a wonder that we have access to oysters, for one thing! Although I live near enough to the bay, oftentimes the oysters are shipped from bodies of water hundreds or thousands of miles away. Each of the other ingredients has a long distance to go before it ultimately winds up in my hungry tummy.
With all my recent complaining about not being able to find things in the Rocky Mountains, it is rather amazing that I can get fresh mushrooms and rosemary in this vast, frozen locale.






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