How To Make Balkan-Style Savory Cornbread
Enjoy a tangy and salty Bulgarian pastry with this easy Balkan-Style savory cornbread recipe that’s made fluffy with cornmeal, flour, and feta-cheese.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1tbspbutter
- 1cupall-purpose flour
- ½cupsemolina flour
- ½cupcornmeal,plus 2 tbsp for dusting
- 2tspbaking powder
- 1tspsalt
- 4cupsfresh spinach,chopped
- 3cupsbuttermilk
- 1cupfeta cheese,brine-packed*, crumbled
- 4eggs,lightly beaten
- ⅔cupvegetable oil
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Butter 9×13-inch baking pan then sprinkle 2 tablespoons of cornmeal on bottom.
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Sift all-purpose flour, semolina flour, ½ cup of cornmeal, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
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Whisk spinach, buttermilk, feta cheese, eggs, and vegetable oil together in a separate large bowl. Stir flour mixture into spinach mixture just until pourable batter forms.
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Pour batter into prepared baking pan.
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Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
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Serve and enjoy.
Recipe Notes
If you cannot get brined feta, use regular feta and increase salt to 2 teaspoons.
Nutrition
- Calories: 286.35kcal
- Fat: 18.29g
- Saturated Fat: 4.12g
- Trans Fat: 0.14g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 10.51g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.68g
- Carbohydrates: 22.31g
- Fiber: 1.03g
- Sugar: 3.67g
- Protein: 8.32g
- Cholesterol: 69.44mg
- Sodium: 320.63mg
- Calcium: 210.28mg
- Potassium: 209.52mg
- Iron: 1.57mg
- Vitamin A: 102.85µg
- Vitamin C: 3.42mg
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