Crock Pot Chicken And Cornbread Dressing

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We do dressing differently in the south. Dressing is moist and delicious, served steaming with sides of cranberry sauce and ample amounts of chicken or turkey inside. Often reserved for holidays, my grandmother changed all of that with her crock pot chicken and dressing recipe. Now we have this family favorite all year long thanks to the little effort involved in preparing it.

I’ve often said there is no sight prettier than an old lady with a casserole dish – but the sight of my Grandmother toting her crock pot has it beat by far! This is from my grandmother, Lucille, to you. Enjoy!
(Good thing y’all aren’t waiting in real time for me to finish this post. Its taking me ten forevers because I am sitting here eating more dressing as I do it.)

Recipe Ingredients:

  • TWO pans of cornbread (I know I am only showing one here, but trust me, two, two..)
  • Two hotdog or hamburger buns
  • Two boiled eggs
  • Stick of butter
  • Chicken (I used 4 boneless skinless breasts and just boiled them in water until done)
  • Two cans cream of chicken soup
  • Two cans chicken broth
  • Sage
  • Chopped onion

Alright! Things are heating up here at Southern Plate! We now have ACTION Photography!!! Crumble all of your cornbread into a large bowl. 


Tear hot dog or hamburger bun into small pieces and place in bowl. We always use two types of bread in our dressing. The white bread helps to bind it together. If you don’t have any buns, you can always use loaf bread.

Chop eggs.

Add to bowl eggs, onions, sage, melted butter…
…one cream of chicken soup and both cans of broth.
Stir well until it looks like this. You’ve made your dressing!!! Go you!!!
In crock pot, spread half of the remaining can of cream of chicken soup.

Top with 1/3 of your dressing.

Top dressing with half of your chicken. I just tear it up as I add it in here.
You can do that or shred it or cut it…or ask it really nicely to separate into tiny pieces and hop in.

Repeat with another layer of dressing, remainder of chicken, and a final layer of dressing.
Spread remainder of cream of chicken soup over the top. Cover and cook on low for three to four hours.


Dig in!

Crock Pot Chicken and Cornbread Dressing

Crock Pot Chicken and Dressing is moist and delicious, served steaming with sides of cranberry sauce and ample amounts of chicken or turkey inside.
Prep Time: 45 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Course: Dressing
Cuisine: American
Keyword: corn
Servings: 6
Calories: 363kcal

Ingredients

  • 4 chicken breasts, cooked or rotisserie chicken
  • 2 quarts cornbread crumbled
  • 2 hamburger or hot dog buns (can use a few slices of white bread) crumbled
  • 2 tablespoons sage chopped
  • 2 hard boiled eggs chopped
  • 1 med onion chopped
  • 2 cans cream of chicken soup
  • 1/2 cup butter melted
  • 2 cans chicken broth (3-4 cups)

Instructions

  • In a large bowl, mix together cornbread, buns, sage, onion (chopped), hardboiled eggs (chopped), melted butter, one can cream of chicken soup, two cans broth. This is your dressing mixture.
    Spread half the remaining can of cream of chicken soup in the bottom of a large crock pot. Top with 1/3 of the dressing. Top dressing with half of the chicken, shredding it as you put it in. Top with 1/3 dressing, remaining chicken, and remaining dressing. Spread other half of cream of chicken soup over top. 
    Cover and cook on low for three to four hours. Serve hot.

Nutrition

Calories: 363kcal
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91 Comments

  1. Holy Mackeral! You KNOW I’m making this one this week! Every time I sign on I find another yummy recipe! This email is from Terri… even though is says annonymous. I can’t remember my password! Anyway… any recipe that keeps me out of the kitchen, whether it be hot or cold outside… I’M IN! Thanks so much!
    Terri

  2. Corey: I know just what you mean. Lela (my great grandmother) was always the one who made the dressing in our family for Thanksgiving. Every time I make it I can see her standing at the counter, humming to herself as she stirred up the cornbread. The smell of sage reminds me of her, too.

    One of the things I enjoy more than anything is sharing a cherished family recipe with someone who has never tried it and seeing their face light up at the first bite.

  3. Stephanie: oh oh oh oh, chocolate gravy. Oh my. If you ever have hopes of dieting, don’t try it, its just too good not to have again and again and again and again…

    I would love to see a recipe for northern dressing sometime if you have one! You know, I’ve only been out of the south twice! I went to Canada once and D.C. once!

  4. I think that one of the best things that I have done for my wife’s family here in the frozen northeast is to introduce them to the joys of cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving. My grandmother is long away from this earth, but I will remember her every time I smell cornbread in the oven.

    1. Corey, I feel the same way about cornbread dressing and my mother. When I make it she’s right beside me in the kitchen, chopping the veggies in tiny little pieces…she was a food processor herself! She’s singing “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and the smells wafting through the house are almost tortuous! I’m so glad to hear that you have blessed your family with this gift. It’s one they’ll never forget. ❤️

  5. That looks delicious! I love dressing, whether it’s cornbread dressing or regular dressing (I’m not from the south, so to me the kind that isn’t cornbread is “regular”) – and I love the idea of having it on a regular night instead of waiting until Thanksgiving, or even until Fall. Thanks for the recipe!

    Oh, and my husband was intrigued at the idea of chocolate gravy for biscuits. I have the feeling that we will be trying that one very soon.

  6. I am the exact same way! I’ve lived in Alabama all of my life and I swear it is TOO HOT to use the oven in the summer unless you have to!!! The crock pot is a summer lifesaver in the south, without heating up the house any more than it already is!

    Hope you like this! I love anything I can toss in the crock pot in the morning and call supper in the evening!

  7. I cant wait to try this recipe. My two loves cornbread dressing and my crockpot. I swear i wear that thing out in the summer its just to hot to turn on the stove in the Texas heat. We to eat cornbread dressing year round I love that stuff. I will definitly be trying out this recipe. I have heard of crockpot dressing I just havent made it yet. Thanks for sharing.

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