Oh Soooo Good Asiago-green Onion Cornbread -- Small Iron Skillet

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 tablespoons bacon fat (or fat of your choice)
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper (coarsely ground)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
• 3/4 cup milk (2% okay)
• 1/2 cup green onion (finely minced or snipped with scissors - 4 onions)
• 1/2 cup asiago cheese (freshly grated, then packed into 1/2 cup measure, or cheese of your choice!)
• 1 1/2 cups self-rising buttermilk cornmeal mix ( lily preferred)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 450°f.
• 2 place bacon fat in 7-8 inch iron skillet and heat in preheated oven for 5-7 minutes.
• 3 while skillet is heating, combine egg, pepper, sugar, milk, green onion, cheese, and cornmeal mix until well mixed.
• 4 remove skillet from oven and pour hot fat into cornbread mixture, and quickly combine.
• 5 pour cornbread batter into hot skillet.
• 6 bake for 20 minutes at 450°f.
• 7 remove pan from oven ~ run table knife around edge of pan and lift baked cornbread up onto the blade of the knife to cool for 10-15 minutes before slicing! this will keep bottom of cornbread crisp!
• 8 or ~ turn baked cornbread onto a wire rack to cool for 10-15 minutes before slicing!
• 9 please note: the following items or measurements are not included in the nutritional information / calorie count: bacon fat, asiago cheese. buttermilk cornmeal mix!