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Corn Bread Stuffing with Chorizo

[heart_this] · Dec 28, 2008 · 23 Comments

Chorizo and Corn Bread Stuffing

I was looking for a side dish for my texmex style turkey dinner and I had been wanting to try making a stuffing for a while so I combined the two and made a texmex style cornbread stuffing. For the corn bread I used the cranberry corn bread that I had made the day before. I had seen a lot of more standard stuffing recipes use sausage and I thought that adding spicy chorizo sausage to the corn bread stuffing would be a good idea. I then added some more texmex flavours like chilies, cumin and cilantro. I made it more ‘holiday’ like by adding some dried cranberries in addition to the cranberries that were already in the corn bread. Since I was only cooking a turkey breast I could not actually stuff the stuffing so I cooked it in a baking pan. The texmex corn bread stuffing with chorizo turned out really well. The slightly sweet, moist, and coarsely crumbly corn bread worked well in the spicy stuffing. The stuffing was nice and moist and tasty and had just the right combination of sweet and spicy. It was a great side for the maple and chipotle turkey breast and it was even better with some maple and chipotle gravy and jalapeno cranberry sauce on the fork as well.

Corn Bread Stuffing with Chorizo

Corn Bread Stuffing with Chorizo

Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Servings: 4
ingredients
  • 1 pound chorizo (casings removed and crumbled)
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 onion (chopped)
  • 2 stalks celery (chopped)
  • 1 carrot (chopped)
  • 1 red pepper (chopped)
  • 1 jalapeno pepper (chopped)
  • 1/2 teaspoon oregano
  • 4 cloves garlic (chopped)
  • 1/4 cup bourbon
  • 2 roasted poblano chilies (chopped)
  • 8 cups corn bread (day old, coarsely crumbled)
  • 3 tablespoons cilantro (chopped)
  • 1/4 cup dried cranberries
  • 1/2+ cup chicken stock (or turkey)
  • salt and pepper to taste
directions
  1. Brown the sausage in a pan and set aside.
  2. Melt the butter in the same pan.
  3. Add the cumin and chili powder and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
  4. Add the onion, celery, carrot, red pepper, jalapeno and oregano and saute until tender, about 8 minutes.
  5. Add the garlic and saute for another minute or two.
  6. Add the bourbon and deglaze the pan and let it evaporate.
  7. Place the chorizo, vegetables, roasted poblanos, corn bread, cilantro and cranberries in a bowl.
  8. Moisten with the chicken stock and season with salt and pepper.
  9. Pour the mixture into an 8 inch square baking pan.
  10. Bake covered in a preheated 350F/180C oven for 30 minutes.
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Food, Pork, Recipe, Side Dish, Texmex

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Comments

  1. Hayley says

    December 28, 2008 at 2:55 am

    The colors look beautiful!

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  2. Laryssa says

    December 28, 2008 at 5:50 am

    This looks delicious! I love your blog. I found it through Food Gawker, and I keep coming back for more. 🙂

    Reply
  3. Jan says

    December 28, 2008 at 7:04 am

    That is a great idea! I love the colours and the chorizo.

    Reply
  4. HoneyB says

    December 28, 2008 at 9:54 am

    Sounds delicious and looks awesome!

    Reply
  5. Marie says

    December 28, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Am playing catch up here this morning Kevin. Your Christmas feast looks decidely delicious!!! Am bookmarking this for next year!

    Reply
  6. Lori says

    December 28, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Love the chorizo idea!

    Reply
  7. VeggieGirl says

    December 28, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    So colorful!!

    Reply
  8. Anonymous says

    December 28, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    I have some leftover corn bread myself. This is a good idea to use it up.

    Reply
  9. Colleen says

    December 28, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    What a wonderful recipe – I love this idea!

    Reply
  10. Kalyn says

    December 28, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Kevin, this looks just fantastic!

    Will you send me an e-mail:
    kalynskitchen AT comcast DOT net

    Happy New Year,
    Kalyn

    Reply
  11. Gloria says

    December 28, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    Look beautiful Kevin, is really nice! Gloria

    Reply
  12. Elra says

    December 28, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    Look very moist and delicious with chorizo sausages, Kevin.
    Cheers,
    Elra

    Reply
  13. Chocolate Shavings says

    December 28, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    What a festive dish, it looks delicious!

    Reply
  14. MaryBeth says

    December 28, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    I love stuffing, this one sounds great and looks really good too.

    Reply
  15. Cathy says

    December 28, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    Chorizo and cornbread… sounds fantastic!

    Reply
  16. Anonymous says

    December 28, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    There is absolutely no way that this can’t be amazing.

    Amazing!

    Reply
  17. Pam says

    December 28, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    This does sound like the perfect side dish for your turkey!

    Reply
  18. Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) says

    December 29, 2008 at 1:12 am

    This would be a great side dish for my mexicali meat loaf, which is also nice and spicy. I love the combination of cornbread and sausage — it’s the basis of my family’s favorite Thanksgiving turkey stuffing, too.

    Reply
  19. Bridgett says

    December 29, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    This looks beautiful and sounds delicious. I would love to try this.

    Reply
  20. Mrs Ergül says

    December 30, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Wow, these colours are gonna make a very sad person very happy!

    Reply
  21. Aggie says

    January 1, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    I just drooled over a series of your posts! Everything is looking great on here!! I love this stuffing, and the brussel sprouts look great too!

    Reply
  22. Helene says

    January 2, 2009 at 12:02 am

    What a different stuffing. I’d love to taste this.

    Reply
  23. Hillary says

    January 2, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    I’m already bookmarking a stuffing recipe for next Thanksgiving – I just can’t get enough holidays, can I? 🙂

    Reply

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