Kicked Up Corn Muffins!!!

21 ingredients
7 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 sausage links - sweet or hot - crumbled
  • 1/2 red bell pepper - diced
  • 2 jalapenos roasted, - shopped with seeds
  • 2 tablespoons butter softened
  • 1 bunch scallions - chopped
  • 6 sun dried tomatoes - shopped
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups corn meal
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk, milk plus 1 tablespoon vinegar
  • 1 lime
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon white sugar
  • 1 dash ground cumin
  • 1 dash paprika
  • 1 dash sea salt
  • 1 dash fresh ground black pepper
  • olive oil for drizzling
  • romano cheese for grating

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat Oven 350 degrees:
  2. 2
    Heat a frying pan with a drizzle of olive oil and add the bell pepper, jalapenos, scallions, crumbled cooked sausage and sun dried tomatoes to saute for 3 or 4 minutes. Turn heat off and set aside to prepare the batter for the muffins.
  3. 3
    In a small bowl combine the sour milk, eggs and butter and mix.
  4. 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. 5
    Bring bowl to the stove and spoon in the sausage and vegetable mixture, turning over as added to combine well.
  6. 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. 7
    Bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean.

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