Lei's jalapeno corn bread (lower fat/less calories)
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Weight watchers low fat/sodium free butter or similiar product |
| 1 | cup | Yellow corn meal |
| 1 | cup | All purpose flour |
| 2 | tablespoons | Sugar or sugar subtitute |
| 1 | tablespoon | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt or 1/2 teaspoon of chinese 5 spices. |
| 1 | cup | Skim milk |
| ½ | cup | Egg Beaters or other egg subtitute |
| 2 | Jalapeno peppers, seeded and minced very fine. | |
| 1 | ounce | Low fat mozzarella cheese or more to taste, sliced very thin or shredded (Cheddar or American cheese works well too) |
Directions
Heat oven to 425 deg F. Place butter in 8 or 9 inch square glass baking dish and place in oven for 3 minutes or until melted. Meantime combine dry ingredients in mixing bowl. Add milk and egg and mix until well blended.
Add minced Peppers and mix well. Taking dish from oven, tilt the dish back and forth, till the entire bottom is coated with butter. Pour remaining butter into corn meal batter and mix well on low mixer power. Pour mixture into hot baking dish. Bake 20 minutes or until done. remove from oven.
Cover top with the thin slices of Mozzarella. Return to oven for 1 minute.
Remove and let cool. Serve warm . Makes 9 squares. Note : I had this for breakfast this morning. With this recipe no more butter will be needed, It is quite moist, but of course you can or use some low sugar jam
Posted to Recipe Archive - 15 Sep 96 submitted by: LeiG@...