You can’t have a holiday buffet without cornbread, but you can have cornbread that’s not dry and crumbly. Butter, bacon, and buttermilk keep things correct (and two kinds of cheese don’t hurt). You get to cook and serve right in the skillet, which means your cornbread comes to the table as cute as it is tender.
Ingredients
- 6 bacon slices
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into chunks
- 1 cup canned creamed corn
- ¾ cup buttermilk, shaken
- 3 large eggs, beaten
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- ½ cup finely grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
- ½ cup sliced pickled jalapeños, chopped
- 1½ cups cornmeal
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1½ teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Directions
1
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Cook the bacon in a 10-inch cast iron skillet over medium heat, turning occasionally, until crisp, about 8 minutes. Transfer the bacon to paper towels to drain and cool, then crumble the bacon. Add the butter to the hot bacon fat to melt, then pour it into a large bowl and let cool for 10 minutes; don’t wipe out the skillet.
2
Stir the creamed corn into the melted fats along with the buttermilk, eggs, cheeses, jalapeños, and the crumbled bacon. Combine the cornmeal, sugar, baking soda, salt, and pepper in a separate large mixing bowl. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until incorporated. Pour the batter into the skillet and bake until the top is lightly browned and the center is set, 30-35 minutes.
3
Let the cornbread cool slightly, then slice and serve.
duh, I’m an idiot, but in the chance that there are other dummies like me… had to visit a few times to figure out that the recipes were available by clicking on the images. I had first looked on my phone and thought I needed to go to my desktop to look around… Maybe bigger type with the instructions to hover and click. Or… maybe everyone else is much smarter than me. Anyhoo… the spread is tremendous and I’m excited to try them out.
Do I need to use pickled jalapenos or can I use regular?
Made this for a work cook-off and won best cornbread! It is on the spicier side, so if you are a wuss with heat (like me), I would ease up a little on the jalapenos. Excellent flavors, a huge hit!
I’ve made this several times and it’s scrumptious!
Is it possible to make this in a 9 by 13 pan?
For sure! It might be a drop thinner, so bake it a little less timewise than the recipe calls for.
What do you do with the butter after you’ve poured it into a bowl to cool?
Nevermind !! Just read it again and figured it out!