Southwestern Recipes
Pueblo Blue Cornbread
Ingredients
- 1 small onion, minced
- 2 tablespoons lard or bacon fat
- 1 cup blue cornmeal
- 1 cup unbleached flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup pork cracklings
- 1/4 cup minced jalapeño
- 1/3 cup grated Monterey Jack cheese
Instructions
- Heat oven to 450 degrees F.
- In a cast iron skillet, sauté onion in the lard.
- Mix together cornmeal, flour, salt and baking powder.
- Add onion and remaining ingredients; pour the mixture into the hot frying pan.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Cut into wedges to serve.