The Best Gluten Free Cornbread Recipe – Light and fluffy, this homemade Southern style cornbread recipe is perfect for summer side dish for barbecues, lunch, dinner and pot luck parties. Gluten free, low fat, healthy, clean eating friendly, moist, fluffy and so easy to make!). Why use a box mix when it can be made from scratch in minutes?
Cornbread totally weirded me out the first time I made it.
You see, growing up in Australia, I just didn't know anyone who ate cornbread or made it... and whenever we were on holidays in the US, we never really came across it.
But then I fell in love with a Southern guy and suddenly found myself making all these foods I'd never even thought of making before I met him.
I mean really. The first Christmas we spent together, I asked him what traditional Christmas foods his family would eat for Christmas and he said "dressing" and I was like "err.... on salad?".
Nope, not salad. Jesse was talking about a cornbread concoction of vegetables and eggs and cornbread, baked up and served in big slices.
Combine this with making my first ever pumpkin pie (and being so confused as to how a pumpkin pie could actually taste good as I'd only ever eaten pumpkin as a savoury food - oh, how wrong I was) and my brain was pretty much imploding...
And let's be real, I was in serious foreign territory.
My pumpkin pie may have been delicious, but my first ever batch of cornbread was flat and grossly crunchy and resembled more of a hockey puck than an edible delight.
But I was determined to conquer it.... and after many, many, many failed batches I did - and I've been keeping it from you..
Not on purpose, just because it felt a little too plain and boring... but sometimes boring things are actually the most delicious - so let me introduce to you The Best Gluten Free Cornbread Recipe.
It's light, fluffy and seriously, ridiculously good. Whilst cornbread was a foreign concept to me 10 years ago, it's now one of my all time favourite foods - and it's all thanks to this recipe. So even if cornbread sounds strange to you, give this recipe a try and let me know what you think!
But first, let me share the recipe with you! >>
Yield: makes ~16 slices
The Best Gluten Free Cornbread Recipe
The Best Gluten Free Cornbread Recipe – Light and fluffy, this homemade Southern style cornbread recipe is perfect for summer side dish for barbecues, lunch, dinner and pot luck parties. Gluten free, low fat, healthy, clean eating friendly, moist, fluffy and so easy to make!). Why use a box mix when it can be made from scratch in minutes?
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prep time: 5 Mcook time: 50 Mtotal time: 55 M
ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups (225g) gluten free polenta/cornmeal
- 1 1/2 cups (180g) gluten free plain flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 2/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 5 tbsp butter (75g), melted
- 2 1/4 cups milk of your choice (we used almond milk)
- Pinch of salt
instructions:
How to cook The Best Gluten Free Cornbread Recipe
- Preheat your oven to 200C/390F.
- Line an 8x8" baking pan with baking paper and set aside (or for thinner cornbread, use a 9x13" rectangular tin).
- Combine all of your ingredients in a large mixing bowl, mixing until everything is incorporated.
- Pour your cornbread mixture into your prepared tin, smoothing out the mix to ensure an even layer.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
- Allow to cool slightly before slicing and serving.
NOTES:
Feel free to add mix ins if you like! We've added sundried tomatoes, cheese, garlic, fresh herbs and all sorts of different flavour additions.
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Where's the corn meal to make it corn bread? And how much?
ReplyDeleteHey there! It's actually there as the first ingredient: 1 1/2 cups (225g) gluten free polenta/cornmeal
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