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Home » Recipes » Side Dish Recipes

Easy Crockpot Cornbread Dressing

Published: Nov 11, 2022 Last Updated: May 23, 2023 by Marye 1207 words. | About 7 minutes to read this article.

4 hours hrs 15 minutes mins
Easy crockpot cornbread dressing has all the flavor of the traditional recipe but frees up valuable oven space! It comes out light and fluffy every time. It's the perfect holiday side dish!
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Dressing on a serving spoon with text overlay for Pinterest.
A serving of cornbread dressing with title text overlay for Pinterest.

You'll love this classic Thanksgiving side dish! It's melt in your mouth moist and buttery, with bursts of sage, onion, and celery in every single bite.

Serving spoon filled with stuffing. Title text overlay.
Crockpot Dressing is the way to go! It's light, fluffy, and delicious!
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  • ❤️ Why you'll love it
  • 🧾 Ingredients
  • 🔪 Instructions
  • 🥫 Storage
  • 💭 Tips
  • 👩‍🍳 FAQs
  • 📚 Related recipes
  • 🍽️ Serve with...
  • Restless Chipotle recommends...
  • 📞 The last word
  • 📖 Recipe
  • 💬 Comments

❤️ Why you'll love it

  • Slow cooker stuffing is light and fluffy.
  • It's an almost effortless part of your holiday meal.
  • You can lay chicken breasts or turkey breast underneath for a small family gathering instead of roasting a whole turkey.

I've made classic Southern cornbread dressing even better by adapting my favorite family recipe for the slow cooker and freeing the oven up for all those pecan pies you're planning on making!

🧾 Ingredients

Labeled ingredients for this recipe.
  • Don't make the herb stuffing mix you'll just need the mix itself - straight from the box.
  • Cream of chicken soup brings in moisture and creamy flavor but you can use any cream soup you prefer.
  • I love to add poblano pepper. You could use jalapeno, chipotle, bell pepper, or just leave it out.

This recipe is mindless and foolproof. You just dump everything in, set the heat and timer, and move off to your next cooking chore.

If you have leftovers make this chicken casserole. Use leftover turkey in place of the chicken!

🔪 Instructions

Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the green recipe card below.

Step by step images for making dressing in a slow cooker.
  1. Stir together everything but the wet ingredients and butter in a 6 quart slow cooker that you've greased.
  2. Blend the corn, stock, and beaten eggs together.
  3. Mix into the dry ingredients in the slow cooker.
  4. Dot with butter and cook, covered, on LOW for 4 hours or until cooked through and set.

🥫 Storage

Remove crock pot dressing from the crock and refrigerate within two hours. Food safety, y'all!!!!

If it's been left out over two hours or so while you chatted just go ahead and throw it away - it's not worth a night in the emergency room.

Leftover dressing can be stored, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to 3 days - or frozen for up to 3 months.

💭 Tips

Expert Tip - Make this crockpot dressing ahead by combining the dry ingredients the day before in the crock. Cover and refrigerate overnight then finish the recipe the next day.

  • For a vegetarian option use cream of celery soup instead of cream of chicken and vegetable stock instead of chicken stock. Be sure to check your herb stuffing mix for animal products as well.
  • 1 9x9-inch square of cornbread will make about 4 ½ cups of crumbled. If you have a little more or a little less it's fine.
  • Use cornbread that's a day or two old for best results.
  • If you like sausage in it just brown ½ pound of bulk pork sausage, drain, and stir into the dry ingredients before stirring in the egg mixture. Any way you make it it's the best stuffing I've ever had!
  • This recipe was made in a 6 quart crockpot.
  • You can also bake this in a covered casserole dish if you prefer. Just bake at 375F for 50 minutes, or until cooked through.

Next time try the sweet potato casserole to round out your holiday dinner! It's the perfect side dish for any holiday meal.

👩‍🍳 FAQs

Here are the questions I am most frequently asked about this recipe.

Can this be made ahead of time?

Yep. You can assemble it about a day ahead and store it in the refrigerator, tightly covered. Since you're starting from cold I'd give the slow cooker an extra hour or two.

Can dressing be frozen?

It freezes relatively well. It's so easy I wouldn't make it ahead and freeze it but if you have leftovers you could freeze and then serve it with chicken and gravy later on. The texture changes just a touch.

Serving of dressing on a white plate.
Crock pot stuffing always comes out light and fluffy! It's the best dressing ever!

📚 Related recipes

Once you get the Southern cornbread dressing handled you're still going to need a few things to even out the table.

Here are a few of my favorites Thanksgiving side dishes -

  • Easy Buttermilk Cornbread (No Sugar)
  • Creamy Corn Casserole Recipe
  • Green Bean Casserole
  • Potatoes au Gratin 
  • Chipotle Sweet Potatoes

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🍽️ Serve with...

Besides a big Thanksgiving dinner this easy slow cooker recipe goes with a lot of main dishes! Serve Crockpot stuffing with...

  • Country Ribs
  • Buttermilk Brined Chicken
  • Deviled Chicken
  • Herbed Baked Chicken
  • Smothered Chicken

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  • cornbread (homemade or a Jiffy mix)
  • herb stuffing mix
  • cream of chicken soup
  • creamed corn
  • chicken stock or chicken broth
  • onion
  • celery
  • poblano pepper - optional
  • eggs
  • rubbed sage
  • butter
  • Slow Cooker

📞 The last word

This is a very moist dressing but it stays light and fluffy, too.

I grew up on sage dressing, and I still love it, but now I make this crock pot dressing recipe AND my mom's delicious stuffing. It's a Thanksgiving Day tradition... like football.

And naps.

📖 Recipe

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Slow Cooker Cornbread Dressing

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Easy crockpot cornbread dressing has all the flavor of the traditional recipe but frees up valuable oven space! It comes out light and fluffy every time. It's the perfect holiday side dish!
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American - Southern
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours hours
Total Time: 4 hours hours 15 minutes minutes
Servings:12
Calories:225
Author:Marye Audet-White
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Equipment Needed

  • Slow Cooker

Ingredients

  • 4 ½ cups cornbread, crumbled
  • 14 ounces herb stuffing mix
  • 10 ¾ ounces cream of chicken soup, undiluted
  • 14 ounces creamed corn
  • 28 ounces chicken stock, you might not use all of it
  • 2 cups onion, chopped
  • 1 cup celery, chopped
  • 1 poblano pepper, fire roasted and diced - optional but yummy
  • 4 eggs, beaten
  • 1 tablespoon rubbed sage
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon pepper
  • ⅓ cup butter, cut up in small cubes

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Instructions

  • Stir together everything but the butter in a 6 quart slow cooker that you've greased.
  • Dot with the butter.
  • Cook, covered, on LOW for 4 hours or until cooked through and set.
  • Fluff with fork if needed.

Notes

Storage:
Remove crock pot dressing from the crock and refrigerate within two hours.
If it's been left out over two hours or so while you chatted just go ahead and throw it away - it's not worth a night in the emergency room.
Leftover dressing can be stored, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to 3 days - or frozen for up to 3 months.
Tips:
  • Make it ahead by combining the dry ingredients the day before in the crock. Cover and refrigerate overnight then finish the recipe the next day.
  • For a vegetarian option use cream of celery soup instead of cream of chicken and vegetable stock instead of chicken stock. Be sure to check your herb stuffing mix for animal products as well.
  • 1 9x9-inch square of cornbread will make about 4 ½ cups of crumbled. If you have a little more or a little less it's fine.
  • Use cornbread that's a day or two old for best results.
  • If you like sausage in it just brown ½ pound of bulk pork sausage, drain, and stir into the dry ingredients before stirring in the egg mixture.
  • This recipe was made in a 6 quart crockpot.
  • You can also bake this in a covered casserole dish if you prefer. Just bake at 375F for 50 minutes, or until cooked through.
You'll find more helpful tips and variations in the body of the post.

Nutrition Facts

Calories: 225kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 84mg | Sodium: 629mg | Potassium: 254mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 430IU | Vitamin C: 11.9mg | Calcium: 60mg | Iron: 1.4mg

Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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    First Published November 6, 2017 -- Last Updated: October 11, 2022 with editorial updates.

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    With a 40 year focus on the importance of family and a passion for southern comfort food, Marye Audet-White is an expert in melding the two together effortlessly. Marye's a NY Times Bestselling author with 10 cookbooks under her belt and her recipes have been featured in Good Housekeeping, Country Living, Today, House Beautiful, Texas Living, Food & Wine, and many more.

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    1. Amber

      November 25, 2020 at 8:52 am

      How many people does this feed? I don’t see the servings, but I may have overlooked them.

      Reply
      • Marye

        November 25, 2020 at 9:25 am

        12 -very generously. It fills a 6 quart crock pot. The servings are in the recipe card at the bottom of the page. 🙂

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    2. Amelia Bautista

      November 23, 2019 at 4:52 pm

      Can this be made in the oven? If so how long? And what temp?

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      • Marye

        November 23, 2019 at 9:58 pm

        yes, bake it, covered, for about 45 minutes at 375F

        Reply

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