Simple and flavorful, this Chili Cornbread Skillet is ready in about 30 minutes for an easy weeknight dinner the whole family will love.
Hi Friends!
Wanna know what’s irritating? Buying a new memory card for your camera because you lost yours, making something great to photograph for the blog and then realizing the memory card you bought is WAY too big and won’t work with your camera.
Then you’re faced with the dilemma of either eating what you made without taking pics and having to remake it or not eating it until you can get a new memory card and then going hungry.
I went with option 3- take a few quick pictures with your iphone, hope they turn out halfway decent and then eat! Seems like a win all-around, right?
Because let’s be honest…we all know how the photo-taking sessions have been going around here lately. Rushed with a side of screaming baby. This mom doesn’t have time for remakes of a recipe that turned out perfectly fine the first time 🙂
So anyways, bottom line is – excuse the photos and focus on the delicious recipe.
I made a version of this Chili Cornbread Skillet way back when I first started my blog and recently decided it was worth revisiting. I made mine with beef but you could use turkey…or even tempeh probably if you wanted to. I also used a cast iron skillet. If you don’t have one, you could make it in a regular baking dish (I’d probably try a 9×13 pan).
Here’s how you make it:
PrintChili Cornbread Skillet
Simple ingredients and ready in about 30 minutes, this skillet is sure to be a hit with the whole family!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp oil
- 1.5 pounds ground beef (or turkey)
- 1 bell pepper (any color is fine)
- 1 jalapeno (optional)
- ⅔ cup onion, diced (about 1 small)
- 1 can kidney beans, drained (no salt added)
- 1 can no salt added diced tomatoes – undrained
- 8 oz tomato sauce (optional)
- 1 tsp cumin
- 2 Tbsp chili powder
- 1 batch cornbread batter (use your favorite recipe)
Instructions
- Heat oil in a cast iron skillet or saute pan.
- Add remaining ingredients, except cornbread, and saute over medium heat until beef is cooked through. I make mine without the 8 oz of tomato sauce but if you prefer your chili a little more tomato based and liquidy you can add it.
- If using cast iron skillet, remove from heat and leave contents in skillet. If not, transfer to a 9×13 baking dish.
- Top with cornbread batter – you can spread evenly over the whole pan or just place dollops across the top.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until cornbread is cooked and golden brown on top.
I’m lazy and usually just use the recipe for cornbread that’s on the Quaker cornmeal container. Here’s the Quaker Cornbread recipe. This makes a pretty thick piece of cornbread on top. If you want less cornbread, more chili you could halve your cornbread recipe for a thinner layer or half the recipe and just plop some blobs of batter across the top instead of making a solid layer.
Hubby suggests serving it upside down so the cornbread is on the bottom.
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Enjoy!
–Lindsay–
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Currently drooling over this at nearly 2 AM in my dorm.
Wow this looks amazing!! I love chili and cornbread!!
I had some cornbread recently when I got BBQ and it reminded me how much I love it. Granted, it was always the Jiffy cornbread in the blue box that has now been ruined for me by reading the ingredient list but it was so good!!
it’s just so darn good!
I’m always all about quick and easy…and cornbread…so this looks like a winner!
I LOVE the chili and cornbread combo. I used to say it was going to be my “last meal” 🙂
haha love it!
This looks delicious! We love cooking with our cast iron! Ughh… and sorry about your camera dilemma. I find I have a VERY short window to take pictures so I totally understand how frustrating that can be!
resolved by buying several SD cards that fit in case i lose another 🙂
Drooling…LOVE all these ingredients and such a good comfort meal! I have a client who makes me her homemade corn bread and gosh darn it is good! Thanks for sharing!
OMG!!!!! GET IN MY MOUTH!!! GET IN MY MOUTH!!!!
This looks amazing!!!
This is kinda like a pie and I love it! It’s too bad that your memory card didn’t fit into your camera but hey, the iPhone photos turned out pretty well 🙂
Cornbread is one of my usual “go-tos”; I stick a batch in the oven and then I decide what to make for dinner. I never thought of just combining the bread AND the meal! I also usually add sweet potatoes to my cornbread, and again…why not comvine more? Thanks for inspiring!