Clean Eating Corn Bread

Would you believe I’ve never had corn bread before? I think I tasted one little crumb at a restaurant once, but it was a crumb. And it was little.

So when I decided to make chili for dinner the other night, I thought… what the heck. I’ll make corn bread too. How hard can it be?

I went online to find a corn bread recipe, and do you know that only ONE recipe came up for clean eating corn bread? One!

I was happy to find it until I went to actually make the recipe and realized it was missing some critical information. At one point in the ingredient list, it says: “4 tbsp. For Baking”.

4 tbsp. of what???

And it was all down hill from there.

It was not a great recipe. But the good news is, I was able to improvise. And you know what? It turned out to be some darned good corn bread, if I do say so myself!

Here’s the recipe:

Clean Eating Corn Bread Recipe
(Makes 15 pieces, or 1 – 9X5 pan)

Ingredients
1 cup plain yellow corn meal
1 cup corn flour
1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1/2 tsp. salt
4 tbsp. agave or honey (I used agave)
1 cup non-fat, plain Greek yogurt
1/2 cup plain, unsweetened soy milk
2 whole eggs
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 cup frozen corn, no sugar added

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

Step 1 – In a large mixing bowl, mix your dry ingredient together with a whisk.

Step 2 – In a separate large mixing bowl, mix your wet ingredients, including the frozen corn.

Step 3 – Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just barely blended. Lumps are okay. Don’t over mix.

Step 4 – Scrap your batter into your baking dish and bake for 15 -20 minutes. If you think you need longer than 15 minutes, check it every minute thereafter, or you’ll end up with burnt corn bread. If you like a lighter color on top, place a sheet of aluminum foil over the top for the last 5 minutes of backing.

Step 5 – Corn bread is done baking when you can poke it with a toothpick and it comes out clean.

Step 6 – Slice into 15 pieces, and serve while it’s hot!

Eat and Enjoy!

Munchkin Helpers:

If you have little ones, here’s how they can help (With close supervision, of course).

Let your munchkin(s) add the measured ingredients to the mixing bowls and then let them stir. My little guy helped scrap the dough into the baking dish. He’s such a great little helper!

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Nutritional Content
1 serving = 1/15

Calories: 125
Total Fat: 3 gm
Saturated Fats: 0 gm
Trans Fats: 0 gm
Cholesterol: 28 gm
Sodium: 177 mg
Carbohydrates: 22 gm
Dietary fiber: 2 gm
Sugars: 5 gm
Protein: 5 gm
Estimated Glycemic Load: 13

Nutritional Information estimated at Nutritiondata.com. Data may not be accurate.

Caution: Any time a child is in the kitchen, they will require close supervision. Munchkin Helpers suggestions should be applied with common sense to your own child, taking their own capabilities into account. Do not assume that because it says here that your child can do something, that they can, in fact do it. Please use common sense when in the kitchen with your child(ren).

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