Goat Cheese Corn Cakes

"This was an appetizer I had at a wine festival in Santa Cruz, but we've had it as dinner, too. I love goat cheese....Since I keep bacon and bacon fat in the freezer, and goat cheese (chevre) freezes well, it's a very easy dinner. Update: I've started garnishing this with more of a tomato salad/bruschetta type topping with basil, olive oil and balsamic tossed with the tomatoes and it's SO good! Some toasted pine nuts work well with that all too! I also found that a Jiffy corn bread mix will make the corn cakes easily...just add the corn, onions and cayenne to the mix. Even easier!"
 
Download
photo by a food.com user photo by a food.com user
Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
4
Advertisement

ingredients

Advertisement

directions

  • Chop bacon coarsely and fry til crisp. Pour off all but about two tablespoons of the fat (keep the crispies at the bottom!).
  • Cook onion until the onion is soft and sweet about 5 minutes, add corn, cook another two to three minutes.
  • In a large bowl, mix together corn meal, baking powder, salt, baking soda and cayenne. Make a well and mix in buttermilk and egg. Stir in half the goat cheese and green onions and mix gently.
  • Wipe out the skillet and spray well with Pam or use olive oil, and drop 1/4 cupful of batter at a time. Watch out, they'll spread some. It takes about two minutes per side.
  • Serve each with a spoonful of the rest of the goat cheese, bacon, chopped tomato, and some green onions sprinkled on top.

Questions & Replies

Got a question? Share it with the community!
Advertisement

Reviews

  1. What a unique appetizer! These were very interesting, and the goat cheese and other toppings really made them pop. Thanks for sharing!
     
Advertisement

RECIPE SUBMITTED BY

If I weren't a teacher, I'd be a chef. I love to cook, grew up cooking, had a fireman chef for a dad, and have spent most of my free time with cookbooks, food, entertaining, classes, study, and luckily I'm in one of the best food areas in the world! But...teaching is the absolute best job in the world. Don't tell anyone, but it's more like fun and you never get bored. My pet peeve is when people spell DEFINITELY wrong. I DEFINITELY don't want to read more reviews with DEFINITELY spelled wrong. But hey, I'm an English teacher :). My other pet peeve, food-wise, is "cream of whatever" soup. I think my mom OD'd us all on it when I was growing up. My biggest challenge in cooking was trying to learn FAST food. At an "older" age, I married, had a baby and have had to learn a new way to cook! No more leisurely hours to fix dinner for friends or an hour to put something together for me....! My daughter is seven now, opinionated, and it's a real challenge. Luckily she likes almost everything. And so does my sweetie. I loved seeing her horrified face at her first abalone fresh from the ocean (my husband dives for them occasionally...oh man, nothing better...) But she ate them and then slurped down some oysters!!! <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/Adopted1smp.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"> <img src="http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Sharon123/NZT-2-AnnaciasZaarTagbanner.jpg" border="0" alt="Annacia's banner for Zaar Tag">
 
View Full Profile
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

Find More Recipes