Cornbread

Recipes / Vegetarian

Nothing tastes better than fresh bread, especially when it comes from your own kitchen.

Recipe «Cornbread» presented in category Recipes / Vegetarian, to prepare this dish you will need no more 30 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 175g strong flour*, sifted with 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 150g coarse polenta *, 1 tsp caster sugar, 3 tbsp pepitas, 3 tbsp poppyseeds, plus extra to sprinkle , 75g grated tasty cheese, 1/2 tsp dried chilli flakes, 300ml buttermilk , 1 egg.

Ingredients:

  • 175g strong flour*, sifted with 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 
  • 150g coarse polenta * 
  • 1 tsp caster sugar 
  • 3 tbsp pepitas 
  • 3 tbsp poppyseeds, plus extra to sprinkle 
  • 75g grated tasty cheese 
  • 1/2 tsp dried chilli flakes 
  • 300ml buttermilk 
  • 1 egg 

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease a 7cm-deep, 9cm x 20cm loaf pan.
  2. In a large bowl, stir together the flour and soda with the polenta, sugar, seeds, cheese, chilli and 1 teaspoon salt.
  3. Lightly beat buttermilk and egg, then stir into flour mixture using a fork. Pour into the loaf pan and sprinkle with extra poppyseeds. Bake for 25-30 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely. Serve with chilli and herbed rice.