A few years back I made a delicious Mexican Cornbread dish for Thanksgiving, but it was using boxed cornbread. I wanted to recreate the recipe, but using my own cornbread recipe. My cornbread is sweet, so I took the sugar down a notch, and removed the vanilla extract altogether. Add a few tweaks in and you have a whole other dish!
This is what I love about cooking, most of the recipe’s I’ve posted and shared on this blog are my basic recipes for things, I’ve posted a good deal of my base models, and I feel now I can share with you the various ways we can change them up. It’s fun and adds a new dimension to traditional recipes. While this dish isn’t as sweet as my traditional cornbread, it has a bite to it, and it’s a lot moister. you can even just mash it up and use it as a cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving or Christmas. It was a hit too!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 can creamed corn
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 (7 ounce) can roasted green chile, drained. (Or 4 ounce can green chile and 4 ounce can chopped jalapeno, drained)
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| Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, cornmeal, sugars, salt and baking powder. |
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| Stir in the milk, the oil, then the egg one at a time. Whisk until well blended. |
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| Now add in the can of creamed corn, the drained chile, and the cheese. Mix until blended throughout. I used roasted green chile because I wanted the kids to eat it, but it’s great with jalapeno’s or a mixture of the two. Play with it and see what you like! |
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| For this you need a pan a bit larger than my original recipe calls for. I use a 2 quart rectangular baking dish and it fits perfectly. Lightly grease or spray the pan and then pour the mixture in. |
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| Bake for about 35 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. It’s a moist bread, but if you cook a little longer it won’t be as moist. Just depends on how you like it! |
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| Spread a little butter or margarine over the top and serve warm. Enjoy! |
ohhh man i love me some cornbread! and with cheese? PERFECT!!
you’d love it then!
*drooling* looks delicious! 🙂
Thank you!
This looks like a dish my whole family would LOVE! Spicy, cheesy and bread! Perfection!!! Thanks for sharing!!! 😀
Yes, yum!! Thank you Connie!
Looks yummy! I would have never thought of adding cheese and chiles!
Thank you!
I love homemade cornbread and this looks yummy! Thanks for sharing on Foodie Friends Friday!
Hi Ericka! If you love cornbread, you’d probably like the original cornbread recipe too. I have it linked on this. 🙂
Love cornbread and that looks delicious! Perfect with soup on a cold night!
Thanks for sharing at Mealtime Monday!
Kaylee
http://www.couponingncooking.com
Thank you Kaylee!
It looks super delicious
I would looooooooove a slice of two right now!:)
Thank you! Nothing like good comfort food during the winter season!
By any chance, is this the recipe that was in a Costco cookbook, a few years ago ? I put it in a “safe place” and can not find it ! Tks – this looks delicious and, to my recollection, similar.