Wild Rice And Cornbread Dressing Recipes

WILD RICE AND CORNBREAD DRESSING

Steps:

• In a 3-quart saucepan, bring 3 cups water to a boil.
• Stir in wild rice and 1 teaspoon salt.
• Return to a boil, cover, and simmer over low heat 50 minutes.
• Drain in a large coarse sieve.
• In a 12-inch skillet over medium heat, melt butter.
• Add celery, onions and garlic; sauté, stirring, for 10 minutes or until softened.
• Add cooked wild rice and stuffing mix or cornbread; heat through, stirring.
• Add broth, parsley and salt and pepper to taste.
• Spread evenly in a 9" x 13" glass baking dish, and cover tightly with aluminum foil.
• (Dressing may be prepared up to 6 hours ahead and refrigerated.) Bake until heated through, about 30 minutes.
• Serve hot.

CORNBREAD AND WILD RICE DRESSING WITH PINE NUTS AND PARSLEY

Steps:

• For the cornbread: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Mix the cornmeal mix, buttermilk (a little at a time), flour, egg and baking soda in a bowl. Heat a cast-iron skillet, add the bacon grease and once the grease is hot, transfer 2 tablespoons of the grease from the skillet to the cornbread mixture. Mix the grease into the cornbread mixture and pour the cornbread mixture into the sizzling hot skillet. Bake until you can't see a finger print in the top of the bread when you lightly press it, about 20 minutes. Cool, cube into 8 cups, and toast.
• For the dressing: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. To cook the rice, combine 2 cups of the stock, 2 cups water and rice in a medium saucepan. Bring the mixture to a simmer, cover and cook until the rice is tender, about 1 hour. Drain the rice and transfer to a large bowl.
• Meanwhile, melt the butter and let brown slightly in a large pan. Add the corn, onions, celery, red peppers, garlic and a pinch salt and sweat the vegetables until tender. Add the ham and pine nuts and cook over low heat, about 2 minutes. Set aside to slightly cool.
• Whisk together the remaining 3 cups stock, cream, parsley and eggs and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Combine the rice, vegetable/ham mixture, stock/cream mixture and Sherla's Cornbread in a 4-quart lasagna pan and cook, covered, about 30 minutes. Uncover the pan and cook until crusty, about 20 minutes.

MINNESOTA WILD RICE DRESSING

Steps:

• Prepare instant long grain and wild rice according to package directions. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Place ground pork sausage and ground sage pork sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, and set aside. Cook and stir celery, onion, mushrooms, and water chestnuts in the skillet until browned and tender. Season with garlic powder.
• Mix prepared rice, sausage, celery mixture, and eggs in the prepared baking dish. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until lightly browned.

CORNBREAD, WILD RICE AND SAUSAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• Sweat vegetables until tender in 1 tbsp butter.
• Make package of rice according to directions on box.
• Remove vegetables to a bowl and then brown sausage in pan until no longer pink.
• put 2 cans of chicken broth and stick of butter into a medium sauce pan and bring to a boil.
• Empty cornbread stuffing mix into large bowl.
• Pour chicken broth mixture over cornbread mixture, toss with fork until liquid is absorbed.
• 7. Toss in rice, celery, onions, and sausage and mix until combined.
• 8. Add poultry seasoning and sage to taste.

CORNBREAD AND WILD RICE DRESSING (STUFFING) WITH SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Combine 2 cups of stock, water and rice in a medium saucepan.
• Bring to a boil then turn down heat, cover, and simmer until tender, about 1 hour.
• Drain, put in large mixing bowl with cornbread and set aside.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet.
• Sauté onion, celery, garlic and shallot over medium heat until translucent.
• Add sausage. Brown.
• Add sage, salt, and pepper.
• Add to rice/cornbread mixture. Toss.
• Put mixture into baking dish (10 X 15 works well) drizzle with remaining stock.
• Cook on lower shelf until top is crispy, about 25 minute.

"BIG BILL'S" WILD RICE & CORNBREAD DRESSING

Steps:

• 1. First things first....let's make the cornbread!!! preheat oven to 375*. In a large mixing bowl combine eggs, buttermilk and 4 tbs of melted butter whisk to combine. in a separate large bowl combine your cornmeal, flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baking soda whisk to combine. Add your wet ingredients to your dry and stir until just combined. pour batter into prepared 9" baking dish bake for 30 minutes at 375* remove from oven and let stand 10 minutes.
• 2. I always cook my rice ahead of time. Combine 2 cups chicken stock water and rice in medium saucepan bring to just a boil cover reduce heat and simmer 1 hour, drain rice and transfer to large bowl.
• 3. Heat EVOO in skillet add onion and celery, salt, pepper, and a dash of sage. cook until softened about 5 minutes, add the fresh parsley and thyme and cook 1 more minute, remove from heat and add to bowl of rice mixture.
• 4. at this time take your cooled cornbread and crumble it into the large bowl of rice mixture and stir to combine.
• 5. Transfer Mixture into prepared baking dish (13x9x2) drizzle with 1/2 cup of chicken stock and 1/4 cup of melted butter. Bake until golden and crispy, about 25 minutes