Upside-Down Sausage-Apple Cornbread
- Reviews 3
Ready In: 50 mins
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
- 1⁄2 lb pork sausage link
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 4 small apples, peeled cored, and sliced into eighths
- 1 cup flour
- 3⁄4 cup yellow cornmeal
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 cup milk
Directions
- Grease bottom and sides of a 8" or 9" square baking pan.
- Brown the sausages in a medium skillet over moderately high heat, rotating them until browned and cooked through.
- Remove the sausage and discard all but 2 tablespoons of the drippings.
- Add butter and brown sugar to the pan.
- Heat, stirring until sugar is melted.
- Add apples and saute them over moderate heat, turning occasionally, until soft (about 10 min).
- Arrange sausages in rows across the prepared pan.
- Insert the apple slices, round side down, between the sausages, wedging them in tightly.
- Pour over juices from the skillet (the pan can be covered and refrigerated overnight at this point, if desired).
- Bring to room temperature before proceeding.
- Preheat oven to 400°F
- To make cornbread, stir together the flour, cornmeal, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Add the egg, melted butter and milk.
- Stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.
- Pour the batter over the sausage and apples, smoothing the top to cover well.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until cake tester inserted in middle comes out clean.
- Remove from oven.
- Immediately invert onto a serving dish.
- Cut into squares and serve.
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