Melissa's Cornbread Dressing

kellychris's Note:

I plan to try this soon. With crabs, crawfish, & shrimp - how can it not be GOOD? From the 34th Anniversary Bayou Gourmet Cookbook. Submitted by Melissa Griffin

• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Serves: 8-10

Yield: 1.0 casserole

• 1 lb ground pork
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 onion , diced
• 4 shallots , sliced
• ½ bell pepper , diced
• ½ stalk celery , diced
• 1 tablespoon parsley flakes
• 2 (14 ounce) cans chicken broth
• salt , to taste
• pepper , to taste
• garlic powder , to taste
• 1 lb shrimp , peeled and deveined
• 1 lb crawfish
• 1 lb crabmeat
• 2 (8 ½ ounce) packages corn muffin mix
• 2 eggs

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. Brown ground beef and pork.Drain.
3. Add onions, shallots, bell pepper, celery, and parsley flakes.
4. Next, add chicken broth, salt, pepper,and garlic powder.
5. Cook for 20 minutes over medium heat, stirring often.
6. Add shrimp, crawfish,and crabmeat. Cook for 10 minutes.
7. While mixture is cooking,mix cornbread muffin mix and eggs.
8. Grease a 13x9 baking pan.
9. Stir meat mixture briskly into muffin mix,making sure the eggs do not begin to cook.
10. Pour mixture into greased pan and bake 20 minutes.
11. The dressing should be moist when you take it out of the oven.