Barbecue-Ranch Cornbread Salad

What Is Cornbread Salad?

Cornbread Salad is an old-fashioned southern recipe that is great for potlucks. It typically features crumbled cornbread, beans, tomatoes, and bacon all tossed in a mayonaise-based dressing. This one is a little jazzed up with bbq sauce and it is made as a layered salad instead of mixing everyhting up together.

Layered Salad Recipe

On the bottom is a layer of cubed cornbread. I use a Martha White mix for the cornbread. All you have to do is stir milk into it and pop it in the oven. You could also use Jiffy Cornbread mix or make a homemade cornbread.

On top of the cornbread are layer after layer of yumminess. First there’s chopped romaine lettuce followed by black beans, red bell pepper, cucumber, corn, tomatoes, and red onion.

All of those vegetables are topped off with shredded cheddar cheese, an easy homemade ranch dressing with BBQ sauce mixed in, plus crumbled bacon and french-fried onions on top.

There is so much to love about this cornbread salad recipe!

Typically a cornbread salad has a plain ranch dressing but the BBQ sauce adds a little sweetness and smokiness. I love it!

Easy Customizable

One of the things I love best about this recipe is it is easily customizable. Don’t like any of the ingredeints? Leave them out or substitute something else.

• Use pinto beans or kidney beans instead of black beans.
• Add some finely minced jalapeno to make it spicy.
• Add a diced avocado.
• Use shredded iceberg lettuce or mixed greens instead of romaine lettuce.

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Recipe Tip

These cornbread can be made up to 2 days in advance.

Storage

Levtovers can be stored in an airtight container for up to 2 days. This recipe can be made up to 6 hours in advance.

This is one heck of a filling salad. You could even add a layer of chopped chicken and make it a meal by itself.

Try These Other Salad Recipes

• Layered Taco Salad
• Dorito Taco Salad
• 7-Layer Salad
• Strawberry Fields Salad
• Layered Italian Salad
• BBQ Salmon Cobb Salad
• Chopped Cobb Salad

Watch the short video below to see how easy this recipe is to make.

Originally posted May 12, 2016.

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