Chilli & Cheese Cornbread (With Polenta)
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 175 g polenta
- 125 g plain flour
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar (I use demerera)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt (although it works fine without, in my opinion)
- 300 ml milk (I use semi-skimmed)
- 2 eggs
- 60 g butter (or marg. melted)
- 1 red chili pepper (I use medium-hot ones)
- 250 g grated cheese (pick your fave!)
directions
- Pre-heat the oven to 200c/400f.
- Mix the polenta, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
- Add the milk, eggs and butter to the dry ingredients and mix well until they become a batter.
- Core and de-seed the chilli and chop it finely. Grate the cheese and add it to the batter with the chilli.
- Grease a 7 inch baking tin (I use 1 cal spray) and pour the mixture into the tin.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden.
- Yum, yum!
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Reviews
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Good basic cornbread recipe when there's no cornmeal! I'm living in Argentina and so far I haven't found any cornmeal, just lots of polenta! So I tried this recipe and it's very good and seems very versatile! I'm from the south of the US so I have been wanting to make cornbread down here in South America for some time! Thanks for the recipe!
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