Cornbread Salad – A great make-ahead salad made with fresh cornbread and a homemade french dressing.
As soon as I saw this recipe in a Paula Deen Magazine, I knew I wanted to make it. It is a Trisha Yearwood recipe, and I’ve liked some of the things she has made. Well as it often happens, we had a family get together at my sisters and she had made it so I got to try it out, and we”ve requested it several times since then.
My sister and I have almost the exact same taste in food and cookbooks. We get excited about recipes together. Now we get excited about Pinterest together too!
It’s always exciting to plan out gatherings together and who is making what dish. Often times we will have way too many desserts because we both love to bake. But no one seems to mind. It just means we get to take some home with us!
This recipe makes a lot of dressing so you’ll even have some leftover for salads later . Take some to work and share with others too! Homemade dressings are so good!
Cornbread Salad
Ingredients
- 1 head of green leaf lettuce (You can use romaine too)
- 1/2 bag baby spinach
- 3 roma tomatoes, chopped
- 1 cucumber, chopped
- 1/2 red onion, sliced
- 1 recipe of baked corn bread ( I bake a box of Jiffy Cornbread)
- 1 package real bacon pieces
Dressing:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tbsp grated onion
- 1 tbsp yellow mustard
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup vegetable oil
Instructions
- Cut cornbread into cubes.
- Layer salad ingredients in a big bowl: lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, cucumber, cubed cornbread, bacon pieces, and onions.
- Cover and chill until ready to serve.
- Dressing:
- In a blender, blend all ingredients except oil until combined. With blender on slowly pour in oil and continue to blend until well combined. Pour in a jar and seal or cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Right before serving, shake well and pour desired amount over salad.
Notes
Adapted from Cooking with Paula Deen Magazine
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Cornbread in a salad?! This is PURE GENIUS! I am totally obsessed!!
I’m not huge on salad. But I’d definitely eat a giant bowl full of this one! It looks so good and that dressing! Love it!
I love this idea for a salad. I have used regular bread but never cornbread. Must try it.
Oh my gosh – homemade french dressing. I haven’t had that in FOREVER! It was my favorite as a kid. Totally need to make that!
Cornbread in salad sounds awesome! I would have never thought of that.
I love, love salad, but I’ve never had cornbread in my salad. Will have to try this out! Hugs
Corn bread in salad is an incredibly great idea! 🙂 I can just imagine how good it tastes! And I agree, homemade salad dressings are just so good. Pinned!
In the cornbread dressing recipe, it states to use one cup of sugar. Is this correct?
Hi Sheila! Yes 1 cup of sugar. This is a sweeter dressing. If you don’t want to use quite that much, go for less, taste, and adjust to your preferences. I always end up with leftover dressing too. Thanks for visiting!