Easiest Way to Make Perfect Hot water cornbread

Hot water cornbread. If you love traditional cornbreads like my Mexican Cornbread or Corn Muffins, the texture, time commitment and ingredients are quite different. Hot Water Cornbread - warm, crispy edges and soft center fried cornmeal patties that serves as snacks and a wonderful side to any greens, beans, soups and even fried dishes. Cornbread is just a staple in the South.

And Hot Water Cornbread is one of. It is simply ground corn meal (not cornbread mix) salt and water. My family called the cornbread that Mix together corn meal and salt. You can have Hot water cornbread using 5 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Hot water cornbread

1. It's 1 cup of cornmeal.
2. Prepare 1 tbsp of flour.
3. You need 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
4. Prepare 1 of salt.
5. It's 1 tbsp of sugar.

Add hot water until the cornmeal is the consistency of oatmeal. This hot water cornbread is shaped into cakes and fried in hot fat in a skillet. Hot water cornbread is an old-fashioned Southern recipe that's a staple at dinner. Hot water cornbread has got to be one of my most requested recipes.

Hot water cornbread step by step

1. Mix all ingredients together then add boiling water with salted butter.
2. And fry on both sides.

Although I uploaded a recipe for it many years ago on my YouTube channel, a lot of people missed the video. We love serving our Hot Water Cornbread with savory Turnip Greens to sop up all that delicious broth in which the greens stew. Aside from greens, our Hot Water Cornbread is the perfect side for savory. This Hot Water Cornbread is definitely a must when serving greens and pinto beans for sure!!! I've always been a Jiffy girl.