SKILLET CORNBREAD RECIPE

from scratch

The best skillet cornbread

This cornbread is moist, crumbly, and flavored with cajun spice. Making cornbread in a cast iron skillet gives it a perfectly browned crispy crust. Buttermilk and jalapeños give it the best flavor!

homemade cajun cornbread

8 servings

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10 min

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Ingredients

all purpose flour yellow cornmeal baking powder cajun seasoning egg buttermilk unsalted butter sugar creamed corn pickled jalapeño

Mix together all the dry ingredients into a large bowl. 

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Dry

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Mix together all the wet ingredients into a medium bowl. 

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Wet

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Pour wet ingredients into the dry ones, and mix until just combined, then let the cornbread batter rest. 

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Combine

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Pour batter into a hot cast iron skillet. Top with jalapeño slices. 

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Pour

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Bake skillet cornbread until the edges are browning and pulling away from the sides.  Enjoy with chili, red beans and rice, or fried chicken!

Bake

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Blackened chicken breasts

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