Grilled Skillet Corn Bread

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Some similar their sweet, others unsweetened. Some similar it cakey, others dense. This mentation is unsweetened and, dissimilar galore cornbread recipes, does not see flour, which results successful a grainy texture with heavy maize flavor. Or consciousness escaped to usage your favourite cornbread recipe.

The cardinal present is cooking it connected the grill successful a cast-iron skillet, which lends the cornbread a beauteous fire-roasted flavor.

You'll request a 9-inch cast-iron skillet; if you person a 10-inch skillet, spot the NOTE below. The cornbread should merchandise easily. If you privation grill marks connected it, you tin region the cornbread with a spatula, crook it upside down connected the grates for astir a minute, conscionable agelong capable for immoderate airy marking, past usage the spatula to easiness it backmost into the skillet for presentation.

Serve with chromatic oregon butter.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Ingredients

  • 1 cupful coarsely crushed yellowish cornmeal
  • 2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoonful double-acting baking powder
  • 1 cupful regular oregon low-fat buttermilk
  • 8 tablespoons (1 stick) melted unsalted butter
  • 2 ample eggs, beaten
  • 4 ounces canned peeled greenish Hatch chiles (mild oregon hot)
  • 1 tablespoonful bacon drippings oregon rootlike oil

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (using low-fat buttermilk and rootlike oil)

  • Calories

    220

  • Fat

    15 g

  • Saturated Fat

    8 g

  • Carbohydrates

    16 g

  • Sodium

    740 mg

  • Cholesterol

    85 mg

  • Protein

    4 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Tested by Jim Webster.

Published August 20, 2013

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Updated March 14, 2026

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