Kicked Up Corn Muffins!!!
By: Lady Catherine ...
Published: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 8:32am

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

Preparation

1 Preheat Oven 350 degrees: 2 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. 3 In a small bowl combine the sour milk, eggs and butter and mix. 4 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. 5 Bring bowl to the stove and spoon in the sausage and vegetable mixture, turning over as added to combine well. 6 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. 7 Bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean.

About

These muffins compliment a dinner beautifully.
With Love,
Catherine
xo