Southern Style Gluten Free Cornbread Food

ONE BOWL GLUTEN-FREE SOUTHERN CORNBREAD (DAIRY-FREE, TOO!)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Grease a glass pie dish or 10-inch cast iron skillet. If melting fat, use the skillet to melt the fat, pour into the batter, then spread the remnant of the fat all over the skillet to grease it.
• Combine ingredients in a large mixing bowl in the order listed. Mix until combined and you have a smooth batter.
• Pour the cornbread batter into greased dish or skillet.
• Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown and the top springs back when lightly pressed.
• Remove and serve warm!

GLUTEN-FREE CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Place a 9-inch cast-iron skillet in the oven to preheat with the oven.
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk together buttermilk, eggs, 5 Tbsp. melted butter, and salt. Stir in baking powder, baking soda, and cornmeal until fully incorporated. The batter should be loose but without any lumps.
• Remove cast-iron skillet from the oven and pour in the remaining 2 Tbsp. melted butter, carefully swirling the skillet to coat it in butter. Pour batter into skillet and bake until golden brown and until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cornbread comes out clean, 38 to 40 minutes.

GLUTEN FREE SOUTHERN CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Add the oil to a 10″ cast iron skillet and put the skillet in the oven to heat up.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredient. In a small dish, beat the eggs and add to dry ingredients, stir in water until desired consistency; mixing well.
• When oven comes to temperature, remove skillet, add oil to the cornbread mixture. Stir to combine. Pour batter into pan and place in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until well browned. Remove from oven and allow to stand for 10 minutes.
• Pour the bread onto a plate and cut into 8 wedges.

GLUTEN-FREE CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Prepare to cook. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Grease a 9-by-9-by-2-inch pan.
• Mix the dry ingredients. Sift the flour into a large bowl. Add the sugar, baking powder, psyllium husk and salt and stir.
• Cut in the shortening. Cut the shortening into the flour mixture the way you would when making pie dough. You should end up with walnut-size pieces in a sandy flour.
• Add the wet ingredients. Combine the eggs and milk in a small bowl. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the liquid. Stir with a rubber spatula until everything is combined.
• Finish the batter. Stir in the cornmeal, whisking fast, until it is just combined. Do not overstir.
• Bake the cornbread. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the sides of the cornbread are slightly shrinking from the pan and a toothpick comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Pour all the flours into a large container. (Restaurant supply stores sell large plastic containers that fit this purpose well. You could also use a large glass jar.) Shake and shake and shake harder until all the flours have become one color.

GLUTEN-FREE SKILLET CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously oil a 9-inch skillet; set aside. Whisk together the nut milk and chia seeds in a medium bowl to combine; set aside.
• Grind the corn grits in an electric spice grinder until they're the texture of cornmeal, and add them to another medium bowl. Sift in the oat flour, millet flour, brown rice flour, arrowroot and baking powder, and stir well.
• Add the squash, oil, salt, maple syrup, 1/4 cup water and scallions to the chia mixture, and whisk to combine. Add the chia mixture to the flour mixture, and stir until just combined. Scrape the dough into the prepared skillet, and gently flatten to fill the pan.
• Bake the cornbread until a toothpick comes out clean, 28 to 30 minutes. Let cool for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the edge; place a plate over the skillet, and invert. Slide the cornbread back into the pan with the bottom facing up (to show off the beautiful crust). Serve warm.

REAL SOUTHERN CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Put the skillet in the oven and preheat to 375 degrees.
• Combine the dry ingredients except for the baking soda in a bowl.
• In another bowl, mix the buttermilk and the baking soda.
• Set aside.
• In a small bowl, beat the egg with the sugar until combined.
• Add the oil and mix until combined.
• Pour this mixture into the buttermilk/baking soda, and mix.
• When the oven is preheated, toss the butter into the skillet and let it melt.
• Meanwhile, pour the wet ingredients into the dry, and mix in as few strokes as it takes to just make the dough come together.
• Pull the skillet out of the oven, swirling to get the butter covering the bottom and up the sides of the skillet.
• Pour the batter immediately into the pan, smoothing the top, then back into the oven for about 25 minutes, or until golden brown and pulled away from the sides of the pan.
• Turn out onto a cutting board, cut into wedges and serve.
• NOTE: IMNSHO- cornbread isn't worth making if you don't make it in a cast-iron skillet.
• It may just be my upbringing, but it tastes better somehow.
• And please do not add the baking soda to the dry ingredients.
• I can't explain why, but adding it to the buttermilk makes a big difference in the texture.

SOUTHERN STYLE GLUTEN FREE CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Put oil in a cast iron skillet, just enough to spread around the bottom and sides of skillet. I use a brush to do this. Preheat the oven to 350, immediately place the cast iron skillet in the oven, so the pan preheats as the oven does.
• Mix together all ingredients in a large bowl, being sure to add the baking powder last and get all the lumps out.
• Once the oven and skillet are preheated, pour in the batter, and bake for 20-25 minutes. Top of the cornbread should be golden brown. Let cool just a few minutes before slicing.