Best 3 Cornbread Tamale Pie Recipes

CORNBREAD TOPPED TAMALE PIE

Steps:

• Mix corn bread mix, egg, and milk and let set.
• Brown ground beef in 1 cup water for fine crumbles. Drain and rinse fat.
• Mix all non-cornbread ingredients.
• Spray or grease an 8x8 pan.
• Spread all of meat mixture in pan.
• Carefully pour cornbread on top.
• Bake 400 degrees for 20 minutes or until a toothpick in the cornbread's center is clean.

CORNBREAD TAMALE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425*. In a heavy skillet, saute the beef until brown. Stir in the onion and cook until onion is transparent. Add the tomato soup, water, pepper, salt, chili powder, corn, and green pepper. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes while you prepare the topping. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the cornmeal, flour, sugar, and baking powder. Whisk the egg, milk and oil together. Add to the dry ingredients. Lightly grease a 2 quart casserole. Pour in the meat filling and top with the cornmeal mixture. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the cornbread is beginning to brown.

CORNBREAD TAMALE PIE

Steps:

• First, get out your cast-iron skillet. If you don't have one, steal one from your parents' attic. That is what I did, and I honestly don't think they even know it's gone yet. Then, brown some ground beef in that pan. Remove the ground beef and add chopped onions, green bell peppers, and a hit of red pepper flakes. This is not the time for Aleppo pepper, harissa, or imported dried whole chiles. This is the time for a shaker container of red pepper flakes, so embrace it and add 'em in. Once the veggies have softened, add the meat back in, along with a can or two of diced tomatoes. Simmer it all together, then slather on your favorite cornbread batter. You're going to want to bake this until the cornbread topping is deeply golden and a little crusty-the whole point of this dish is breaking through a crunchy exterior to get to the spicy, saucy chili (it is, essentially, a chili) underneath. But the very best part of the pan lies between that upper crust and the meaty sauce: the layer of cornbread that abuts the tomatoes. It's drenched in sauce and soggy, but, you know, the good kind of soggy. Like when you use a piece of bread to mop up the last bit of a ragu. That's where the magic happens in cornbread tamale pie, and it still gets me. Every single time.