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Kicked Up Corn Muffins!!!
These muffins compliment a dinner beautifully. With Love, Catherine xo Ingredients
- 2 Sausage Links – sweet or hot – crumbled
- ½ red bell pepper – diced
- 2 roasted jalapeños – shopped with seeds
- 2 tablespoons butter - softened
- 1 bunch scallions – chopped
- 6 sun dried tomatoes – shopped
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups corn-meal
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk (milk plus 1 tablespoon vinegar)
- Zest of 1 lime
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- Dashes of ground cumin
- Dashes of paprika
- Dashes of sea salt
- Dashes of fresh ground black pepper
- Olive oil for drizzling
- Romano cheese for grating
Directions
- Preheat Oven 350 degrees:
- Heat a frying pan with a drizzle of olive oil and add the bell pepper, jalapeños, scallions, crumbled cooked sausage and sun dried tomatoes to sauté for 3 or 4 minutes. Turn heat off and set aside to prepare the batter for the muffins.
- In a small bowl combine the sour milk, eggs and butter and mix.
- In a larger bowl combine the flour, corn-meal, lime zest, baking powder, baking soda, spices, sugars and mix. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and combine well.
- Bring bowl to the stove and spoon in the sausage and vegetable mixture, turning over as added to combine well.
- Butter cupcake tins and spoon the batter into the greased cupcake tin. Top each muffin with a little butter, grated cheese and a little drizzle of olive oil.
- Bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean.
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