Ingredients
Scale
- 16 slices of “Texas Toast” thick sliced white bread, toasted medium brown (Can sub 25 slices regular sliced white bread, toasted or about 12 cups unseasoned bagged stuffing mix)
- 1 9×9 pan cornbread (Use a savory cornbread mix like Marie Calendars, not a sweet one like Jiffy)
- 4 cups chicken broth or stock
- 6 hard boiled eggs, peeled and diced
- 2 medium onions, diced
- 4 tablespoons of butter
- 2 large eggs (raw)
- 1 teaspoon rubbed sage
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 jar diced pimentos (optional for garnish)
Instructions
- Melt butter in a large pan over medium low heat and add diced onions.
- Brown onions slowly until they begin to caramelize. Do not allow them to burn.
- Line a 6 qt oval slow cooker with a slow cooker liner.
- Tear toasted bread into small pieces into the bottom of the slow cooker. (It will look almost full with the bread pieces.)
- Heat chicken stock in a large saucepan until it begins to boil.
- Pour slowly over the bread chunks in the slow cooker.
- Crumble the cornbread into large chunks into the slow cooker.
- Add diced hardboiled eggs, browned onions, salt, pepper, and rubbed sage and stir to combine.
- Scramble the two raw eggs in a bowl and pour over the top of the dressing and stir gently to combine.
- Cover and cook on low for about 4 hours, or until edges begin to brown and dressing has set.
- Turn off slow cooker to prevent over-cooking, fluff dressing with a fork (if you want a fluffier appearance), add pimentos as garnish and serve warm straight out of the slow cooker or from a pretty casserole dish.
Notes
- Onions can be caramelized and refrigerated, eggs boiled and diced and refrigerated, and bread toasted and torn the night before to help prep go faster on Thanksgiving morning.
- Cut this recipe in half for a smaller round 4qt slow cooker.
- Oven version: Bake covered in the oven at ~350 for about 1.5 hours or until broth has mostly cooked off.
- Gluten-free: This recipe is not gluten-free, however, I did make a gluten-free version one year using gf bread and gf cornbread. It was a crazy amount of work as I scratch-baked all the gf bread. It turned out pretty delicious, but a box of gf dressing mix from Trader Joe’s might be a cheaper alternative. 😉
- Vegetarian: This will turn out just fine with vegetable stock!
- Vegan: This won’t really set in the slow cooker without the eggs, so I probably wouldn’t adapt this for vegan diets.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12