Sausage Onion Cornbread

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 cup yellow cornmeal
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 5 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup buttermilk or 1 cup use light sour cream or 1 cup plain yogurt
• 8 ounces bulk sausage

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 in a medium bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and soda.
• 3 using a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in the butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• 4 in another bowl, whisk together the egg and buttermilk until well blended.
• 5 add to the cornmeal mixture and stir just until dry ingredients are thoroughly moistened.
• 6 heat a 10-inch cast iron or heavy oven safe skillet over high heat; crumble sausage into it.
• 7 brown sausage for about 2 minutes to render some of the fat.
• 8 add the onion to the skillet.
• 9 cook, stirring constantly, until sausage is browned and onion is tender.
• 10 remove from heat.
• 11 spread sausage and onion out to evenly cover bottom of skillet.
• 12 spoon cornmeal batter evenly over the sausage and onion mixture and carefully spread out.
• 13 bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until golden brown and firm.
• 14 using a knife, carefully loosen around the edge of skillet then immediately invert onto a serving plate.
• 15 cut into wedges. serve hot.