Giada's Buttermilk Cornbread
Category
Side Dish
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
25 minutes
Calories
520
Author:
Giada De Laurentiis
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup 1 stick chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes, plus more for greasing
-
2 cups yellow cornmeal
-
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 2 large eggs
Instructions
- Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Butter a 9 by 9 by 2-inch metal baking pan.
- Blend the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a processor for 5 seconds. Add the butter cubes. Blend until the butter is reduced to tiny pieces, 15 to 20 seconds. Whisk the buttermilk, sour cream and eggs in a large bowl to blend. Add the dry ingredients from the processor and stir until evenly moistened. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake the corn bread until the top is golden brown and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool the bread on a rack at least 30 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Nutrition
Nutrition
- per serving
- Calories
- 520
- Carbs
- 66 grams
- Protein
- 11 grams
- Fat
- 24 grams
- Saturated Fat
- 13 grams
- Cholesterol
- 107 milligrams
- Sodium
- 876 milligrams
- Fiber
- 5 grams
- Sugar
- 16 grams
3 reviews & comments
Made this cornbread twice – delicious! Added 1/2" cubed cheddar (dumped processor ingredients into bowl, stirred in cheese, then mixed into wet). Sub’d in: homemade buttermilk (unsweetened almond milk + 1 1/4 tbsp lemon juice added). As per other reviewer, used glass 9 × 9 & cooked longer. Thanks Giada!
I made this recently, it was fantastic! Light and moist cornbread. We topped it with butter and honey, delicious! Even my fiance, who considers himself a cornbread expert, devoured it. Great recipe Giada.
This recipe is so good! Not dry like other cornbread recipes I’ve tried to make in the past, this came out moist and tangy and a little sweet… everyone in my house loved it, even our picky 5-year-old! Since I didn’t have a metal pan, I baked it in a glass 8×8 at 375, and added 9-10 minutes to the cook time. Yummy!