Mesa Grill Blue Corn Muffins Gluten Free Recipes

Steps:

• Position oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 400°F Grease a 6-slot muffin pan with non-stick vegetable spray.
• In a small saucepan, melt the butter. Add the onions and garlic and cook until soft.
• In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the milk and eggs. Whisk in the butter mixture. In a separate bowl, whisk together the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, soda, salt, sugar and xanthan gum. Stir in the liquid mixture and stir to combine. Fold in bell pepper, jalapeño, corn and cilantro.
• Divide the batter evenly among the muffins slots and bake for 20 minutes or until set.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F; grease a 12-muffin tin very well with butter.
• With an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar; add the eggs and chopped peppers.
• Add the cheeses, flour, cornmeal, baking powder, ancho, garlic, salt, milk, and corn (if using), and mix until blended (do not over-mix).
• Pour the dough into the tin, dividing the portions evenly between the 12 muffins.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until a tester comes out clean; turn the muffins out to cool.
• Makes 12 muffins.
• Note: some people like corn muffins sweeter, so feel free to add more sugar to taste; jalapeno peppers are also good in this recipe, use as much as you like for the level of spiciness you prefer.

Steps:

• *Noteon Masa: You can buy prepared masa dough at most Mexican and specialty food markets.
• Or you can readily purchase Masa Harina (made by Quaker Oats) which is dried corn that has been ground and treated.
• It is the basic ingredient used in making tamale dough (also called masa).
• Soak corn husks in hot water for 30 minutes until pliable.
• Drain.
• Place vegetable shortening and butter in a mixing bowl and beat on medium speed until mixture becomes fluffy and creamy.
• Add masa and mix on low speed for about 2 minutes.
• Add water and mix well on medium speed.
• Grind the corn coarsely in a food processor.
• In a large mixing bowl combine the corn meal, sugar, whipping cream, baking powder and salt.
• Add the masa mixture and the ground corn and mix well.
• To steam the corn cake, line the steamer basket with the softened corn husks.
• Fill with corn cake batter.
• Cover with more corn husks and a tea towel to absorb moisture.
• Steam on the stove for about 2 1/2 hours.
• Batter should not stick to husks when corn cake is done.
• If it does, it needs to steam longer.
• **Noteon steamers: You can also improvise a steamer by placing a rack on cans in a large stockpot or Dutch oven with a tight-fitting lid.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees and lightly grease 12 muffin tins.
• In a medium bowl, mix dry ingredients.
• In another bowl stir together milk, oil and honey until well blended, then add egg and egg yolk, beat (not with electric beater but with wire whisk!) until slightly foamy. If using additional sugar, beat in the sugar until liquid is smooth.
• Pour liquid into dry mix, blend until everything is just blended - don't overmix!
• Divide batter into muffin tins and bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
• Let cool in muffin tins, don't remove muffins before cooled to handwarm or they might break.

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
• Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
• Mix all ingredients together.
• Fill muffin tins 3/4 full.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes.
• For cornbread: Follow directions above. Pour into a greased 8-inch square pan and bake for 20-25 minutes. Makes 9 servings.