A fast and simple Cornbread recipe which you may make in half-hour! This cornbread is ideal as a facet dish and even served as a candy snack.
What’s Cornbread?
As an Australian, I didn’t know what cornbread was till certainly one of my journeys to the US. Actually, my first style of cornbread was at a breakfast sooner or later throughout our honeymoon in Nantucket. That cornbread muffin, served heat with a dollop of butter and honey, stays certainly one of my fondest meals recollections.
After a couple of years of residing and dealing within the US, I quickly learnt that cornbread was both a cake which you might eat as a dessert (e.g. smothered with jam or honey) or, extra generally, as a facet dish to a savoury meal, typically a barbecue.
Why This Recipe Works
- This cornbread takes a mere 5 minutes to organize!
- Bake this cornbread in both a cast-iron skillet or a cake pan, and even as muffins.
- Cornbread is a fast and simple facet dish to make when entertaining.
Cornbread Recipe
This simple cornbread recipe comes from certainly one of my favorite cookbooks of all time, Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson.
Her recipe is for making cornbread in a cast-iron cornstick pan, if you’re fortunate sufficient to personal one. Fortunately, you can too make cornbread in a cast-iron skillet, and even in a traditional cake pan.
I feel there’s something very heat and welcoming about bringing a big pan of cornbread (which is actually cake) to the desk for everybody to slice and share.
What to Serve with Cornbread
Cornbread is ideal served alongside so many dishes. My favourites embody:
Simple Cornbread
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook dinner Time: 25 minutes
- Whole Time: half-hour
- Yield: Serves 3 to 4
- Class: Bread
- Technique: Oven
- Delicacies: American
A fast and simple Cornbread recipe which you may make in half-hour! This cornbread is ideal as a facet dish and even served as a candy snack.
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/390°F (with out fan).
- Grease a cast-iron skillet (26 cm/10.5 inch) with butter or non-stick baking spray. (See Kitchen Notes under for utilizing different pans.)
- In a big bowl, combine collectively the cornmeal (or polenta), flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
- In a measuring jug, whisk collectively the milk and egg.
- Pour the milk combination into the bowl of dry components.
- Calmly combine till every part is simply mixed.
- Final, combine by means of the melted butter.
- Pour the combination into the ready skillet (or cake pan).
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or till the highest of the cornbread is evenly golden.
- Serve heat, however enable the cornbread to relaxation for about 5-10 minutes earlier than serving (not essential, however the cornbread shall be very delicate if served straight from the oven).
Kitchen Notes
USING A CAKE PAN
As an alternative of a cast-iron skillet, you might additionally use a 23 cm/9 inch spherical cake pan or 20 cm/8 inch sq. cake pan.
CORNBREAD MUFFINS
This recipe makes 12 muffins which want 12 to fifteen minutes to bake within the oven.
RECIPE CREDIT
This recipe is tailored from Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson.
OVEN TEMPERATURES
All recipes on this web site state temperatures for an everyday oven (i.e. a standard oven with out fan). In case you have a convection oven with a fan, please seek the advice of the producer’s handbook on easy methods to modify the temperature and baking time accordingly.
CONVERSIONS
To transform from cups to grams, and vice-versa, please see this helpful Conversion Chart for Fundamental Components.
