Creative Cooking with Muriel: Scrumptious Cornbake

Scrumptious Cornbake

Posted by Muriel Hedgcock

This scrumptious cornbake makes an ideal side dish for a summer barbeque. It is so tasty that you will not be able to resist a second helping. In fact I could not even take a photo of the finished bake once it came out of the oven because it was so quickly tucked into. :)

Ingredients: serves 12-16

1 kg frozen sweetcorn
8-10 rashers bacon
2 beaten eggs
200 ml milk
2 or 3 Tbs Flour
2 Packets crushed biscuits :
Ritz, Salticrax, or savoury crackers
Salt and Pepper ( Herbamare)
Garlic pepper ( optional)
25g Butter
50g grated cheese (optional)

Put the sweetcorn in a pot, add salt and about 100ml water.
Simmer for 10 min.

Add 2-3 Tbs Flour, 25g Butter, grated cheese &
100ml milk to the sweetcorn in the pot.
Stir and bring to the boil until it thickens.

Blend slightly using a hand blender

Place the bacon on a large baking tray and grill for 5-10 min until cooked.

Use a knife or kitchen scissors to cut bacon into little bits.

Crush biscuits into small pieces and add to mixture.
Keep 6-10 biscuits aside to sprinkle on top of the bake

Grease oven-proof dish.

In a seperate bowl, mix together milk, eggs, and seasoning.
Add to the sweetcorn mixture and place in greased oven-proof dish.

Crush 6-10 salticrax and sprinkle over the corn mixture.
Place blobs of butter on top.

Bake in a 180 C oven for 60 min or until golden brown on top. Serve hot.

As I was making this cornbake for a large number of people, I used a 35 cm x 29cm x 6 cm sized pyrex dish.
You could use a smaller dish which will make the corn bake thicker.

Tip: If creamstyle sweetcorn tins are available in your part of the world, it makes the recipe much easier.

Ingredients serve 8-12

1 tin sweetcorn
2 tins creamstyle sweetcorn
6-8 rashers cooked bacon
1 egg beaten with
half a cup milk
salt and pepper
1 packet crushed salted crackers

Mix all 3 tins of corn together in a bowl.
Add 1 beaten egg and milk so the mixture is moist enough once cooked.
Add cooked bacon bits and crushed biscuits
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl and place in greased pyrex dish.
Crush about 6 salted crackers and sprinkle over the corn mixture.
Place blobs of butter on top.
Bake in a 180 C oven for 45-60min or golden brown on top. Serve hot.