Southern

Skillet Cornbread

Name: Skillet Cornbread
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2 cups cornmeal, preferably white and stone-ground; 1 tbsp baking powder; 1/4 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp salt; 1.75 cups buttermilk; 2 large eggs; 3 tbsp butter

Arlene @arlene_memphis

Skillet Cornbread is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Easy Eggetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups cornmeal, preferably white and stone-ground
1 tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1.75 cups buttermilk
2 large eggs
3 tbsp butter

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 450F and put a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet inside with the butter to heat until sizzling, about 10 minutes.
Whisk the cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together; there is no sugar in this batter, which is what separates it from a Northern-style cornbread.
Whisk in the buttermilk and eggs just until combined.
Carefully swirl the hot butter in the skillet to coat, then pour the butter into the batter and stir once.
Pour the batter into the hot skillet; it should sizzle loudly.
Bake until the edges are deep golden and a crust has formed, about 20 minutes, then turn out or slice from the skillet.

Watch how to cook Skillet Cornbread

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Skillet Cornbread, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
  
  40 min
The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Skillet Cornbread carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Skillet Cornbread
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Vegetarian Baked Beans
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Buttermilk Biscuits
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 430 kcal
Protein: 13 g
Carbs: 61 g
Fat: 15 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 570 mg
Saturated fat: 7 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Skillet Cornbread takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.