The National Cornbread Festival is Back!

Amy Rogers from Lodge Cast Iron shared a dish for Jalapeno Bacon Cheddar Cornbread. She additionally informed us regarding the event being held April 23 as well as 24 in South Pittsburg, TN. To find out more browse through NationalCornbread.com

Jalapeno Bacon Cheddar Cornbread

Components

• ¼ extra pound best-quality sliced up bacon, reduced right into ¼” strips
• 1 number scallions cut as well as reduced right into ¼-inch strips
• 1 mug all-purpose flour
• 1 mug cornmeal
• 2 tbsps sugar
• 1 tbsp cooking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 mug cheddar cheese
• ¾ mug buttermilk
• 3 big eggs
• ¼ mug (½ stick) saltless butter, thawed
• 4-6 fresh jalapeno peppers, cut in ½-inch rounds

Instructions

1. Setting a shelf in the facility of the stove as well as preheat to 400 levels Fahrenheit. 
2. Prepare the bacon in a 9 Inch Cast Iron Frying Pan over tool warmth till it begins to sizzle. Manage the warmth to make sure that it chefs gradually as well as uniformly, mixing periodically. As soon as the bacon has actually begun to shade, mix in the scallions as well as remain to prepare till the bacon is crisp, regarding 5 mins much longer.
3. As quickly as you begin preparing the bacon, integrate all the completely dry components as well as cheese in a tool dish as well as mix well to blend. In a 2-mug measuring cup, blend the milk as well as eggs with each other as well as established near the dish.
4. Once the bacon prepares, include the egg combination as well as thawed butter to the completely dry components as well as blend the batter till smooth.  Fold up in the bacon as well as scallion combination.
5. Establish the vacant frying pan over tool warmth (it doesn’t matter if a couple of items of bacon as well as scallion have actually continued to be behind) as well as allow it warmth momentarily. Gather the batter. Set up jalapeños externally. Cook the cornbread till it is increased as well as company, regarding 20 mins.
6. Awesome on a shelf for 5 mins as well as offer while still cozy, reduced right into wedges.

Note: This dish was initially created for a 9 Inch Frying pan. We utilized our Cast Iron Wedge Frying Pan, which we pre-heated in the stove while we prepared the bacon in a different frying pan on the stovetop. The dish loaded the wedge frying pan as well as we had sufficient added batter to fill up a rounded mini web server, too!