Southern Cornbread Dressing - My Grandma's Secret Recipe

This is my Grandmother's recipe for Homemade Cornbread Dressing. She has won many hearts by sharing her dressing, but has never given out her recipe until now. I hope you enjoy this family classic as much as our family has for over 60 yrs.
Thank you for allowing me to share this recipe Mama Jean. I love you more than words can express. I owe you a huge bear hug!!!

Mama Jean's Cornbread Dressing

Cook a small chicken With:
2-celery stalks (chopped)
2 Onions (chopped)
salt /pepper

Debone the chicken after cooled

Cook a pan of cornbread for the stuffing

Stuffing Ingredients:

1 small bag of seasoned stuffing or 4 slices stale bread
1/2 Cup butter (1 stick)
3 Medium onion (chopped)
The remainder of the celery stalk (chopped)
1 bunch green onions (chopped)
1/2 cup green pepper (chopped)
1 lb. Jimmy Dean sausage (mild)
3 or 4 tsp. Poultry seasoning
1/2 to 1 tsp. Sage
4 large eggs (2 scrambled for stuffing, 2 hard boiled for gravy)
2 Tbsp. Parsley flakes
1 Cup Pecans

Saute' onions, celery, & green peppers in butter.
In a large bowl, add saute'd veggies, sausage & seasonings.

In same bowl add crumbled cornbread and bread stuffing.
Add scrambled eggs and ladle in broth adding broth until a
comfortable mixture is achieved, but not runny.
Mix well.

Add chopped chicken and Pecans. Mix well.

Bake @ 350F 35 mins or more depending on the size of your pan
or thickness of stuffing mixture.

Gravy
Place 2 cups chicken broth into pan and heat on medium.
Add 2-Tbsp. cornstarch to 6 oz Cold Water.
Add cornstarch mixture to gravy and bring to a boil.
After gravy boils for 1 minute, lower to simmer.
Add salt/pepper to taste.
Add remaining Chicken pieces to gravy.
Slice hard boiled egg into coins and place slices into gravy.

Canon G30 used to shoot this video:
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Music:
"Nile's Blues" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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