Southern-Style Spoonbread

Name: Southern-Style Spoonbread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters cooked country ham, diced; 5 eggs, seperated; 710 milliliters milk; 355 milliliters yellow cornmeal

Southern-Style Spoonbread is a gluten free main course. This recipe serves 6. One serving contains 473 calories, 18g of protein, and 29g of fat. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have cornmeal, eggs, milk, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the milk you could follow this main course with the Milky Way Brownie Bites as a dessert. This recipe is typical of Southern cuisine. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Bring milk to a slow boil in a saucepan; gradually add cornmeal, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, 10 minutes or until thickened.

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Cornmeal

Milk

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Sauce Pan

Remove from heat; add butter and baking powder and stir until butter is melted.

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Baking Powder

Butter

Let cool and set aside.

In a small bowl, use a fork to beat egg yolks until light; stir into cooled cornmeal mixture.

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Egg Yolk

Cornmeal

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Bowl

Add ham and mix until blended; set aside. Beat egg whites at medium speed with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form; fold into cornmeal mixture until well combined.

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Egg Whites

Cornmeal

Ham

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Hand Mixer

Pour into a greased 2-quart casserole dish; bake at 350 for about 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

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Casserole Dish

Toothpicks

Oven

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Ingredients

Servings:

2teaspoons

baking powder 118milliliters

butter, softened 237milliliters

cooked country ham, diced 5

eggs, seperated 710milliliters

milk 355milliliters

yellow cornmeal

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Southern on the menu? Try pairing with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. One wine you could try is Gunderloch Estate Riesling Dry. It has 4.3 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 15 dollars.