Mexican Cornbread

photo by Stoblogger


- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
1 pone
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 2 (8 1/2 ounce) boxes Jiffy cornbread mix
- 2 eggs
- 2⁄3 2/3 cup skim milk or 2/3 cup half-and-half cream
- 1 (15 ounce) can cream-style corn
- 1 small onion, caramelized
- 2 teaspoons oil
- 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chilies, drained
- 1 (2 ounce) jar diced pimentos, drained
- cooking spray
directions
-
Caramelize the onion in a pan with 2 teaspoons of oil. While it is cooking:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Generously spray a 9"X13" pan with cooking spray, or grease with oil or butter.
- Pour the diced tomatoes and pimentos into a sieve to drain.
- In a bowl combine 2 boxes of cornbread mix, 2 eggs, and 2/3 cup of milk. I use fat-free half-n-half instead of milk.
- Pour half of the batter into the greased pan.
- Over the layer of batter, add the cream style corn. It won't make a perfect layer from edge to edge. Just do the best you can to make some semblance of a layer. I try to get a little more closer to the outer edges of the pan than in the center. This helps it cook more evenly.
- Over the corn layer, add the drained diced tomatoes and pimentos. Again just do the best you can. It doesn't have to be perfect.
- Over the tomatoes and pimentos, add the caramelized onions.
- Last, dollop on the remaining half of the batter, in some semblance of a top layer.
- Place on center rack of oven, or lower.
- Bake 40 minutes. Check to see if done in center--it will be very moist but shouldn't be doughy.
- If not done at 40 minutes, bake a little longer, under foil if you are afraid the top will over brown. Let stand 15 minutes before serving.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Stoblogger
Allen, TX
I come from a very large family which attributed to my mother spending a great deal of her time in the kitchen cooking, cleaning, and preparing. I was fascinated at how she prepared wonderful dishes (especially desserts) without using a cookbook. We grew many of our own fruits and vegetables and my summers were spent washing jars and preparing fruit and vegetables for canning. I dreaded the mountains of green beans, tomatoes, peaches, etc., etc. that had to be picked, washed, peeled, snapped.... More than anything, I hated spending my summer washing jars!
But now, I wouldn't trade that kind of upbringing for anything. I'm glad I learned how to do all those things because it's becoming a lost art. It really was a simpler time then and I'm a much better person for knowing how to do all those 'old fashioned' things.
In my early years of learning to cook, I watched Julia Child on PBS every chance I got. I was so thrilled when I was about 11, my mother let me prepare Julia's Pastry Tarts. If I remember correctly they didn't turn out so well but it didn't matter.
Oddly, today, I enjoy reading cookbooks and recipes even more than actually cooking.
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