Less than 15 minutes
Makes 1 loaf (8-10 slices)
Share with friends
Share on facebook
Share on twitter
Share on pinterest
Share on whatsapp
Share on email
Ingredients:
- 2 cups (300g) flour
- 2 cups (300g) polenta or yellow maize meal
- 2 Tbsp (30ml) baking powder
- 2 tsp (10ml) salt
- 1 Tbsp (15ml) cayenne pepper (optional)
- 2 cans (415g each) cream-style corn
- ½ can (205g) whole corn kernels, drained and rinsed
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup (250ml) buttermilk
Nice to have:
- Handful cherry or vine tomatoes
- Sour cream, for serving
Method:
- Prepare medium-hot coals or preheat oven to 180°C.
- Grease a cast-iron pot and the inside of the lid. (A round cake tin or loaf tin works well too.)
- Stir flour, polenta or maize meal, baking powder, salt and cayenne pepper together in a bowl.
- Add cream-style corn, corn kernels, eggs and buttermilk and mix well.
- Pour into prepared pot.
- Top with tomatoes, if using, and cover with greased lid. (Use foil if using a cake or loaf tin)
- Scrape out a clearing between coals and place pot in the centre.
- Place a few coals on the lid (ignore if baking in an oven instead) and bake for 60-70 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the bread comes out clean.
- Rest in pot for 10 minutes.
- Turn out onto a wire rack and cool slightly.
- Serve warm with dollops of sour cream, if you like.