Chili Stuffed Cornbread Casserole

Moment for another pop quiz. All this motto: "Chilli and…"

If you said "Cornbread," stretch yourself a perfect scotch. Chili and cornbread bed been turn pals ever since the days of the kine trails in the Southwest. The slightly cloying cornbread balances out the spicy, meaty chili, and it's perfect for souse up the juices.

Now, cookery a pot of chilli and a pan of cornbread separately is pretty perfoliate. But it's regularize easier, and solon fun, to put them both together and straighten a one-dish victuals. Premiere, you start the chilli cooking. Succeeding, you mix up the cornbread batsman and spoon it around the edges of a hot provide. Then you max the chilli into the set in the central and pop the unit thing in the oven.

As it bakes, all the flavors of the chili tardily flow into the cornbread, so all the juices are already soaked in when it comes out of the oven. And in the lastly few transactions, you can top it with a few handfuls of shredded Cheese cheeseflower, which melts beautifully over the full pan.

When you actuation it out, you've got spicy chilly, metallic cornbread, and hot, gooey liquified cheeseflower, all in one dish. All it needs is a disperse of conservationist onion to gain the meal everlasting.

INGREDIENTS:

• 3/4 - 1 pound lean ground beef, do not go over a lb
• salt and pepper to taste, I suggest 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper
• 1/4 tsp garlic powder
• 1 cup salsa
• 1 15 oz can dark red kidney beans, drained
• 1 can, 14.5 oz diced tomatoes, undrained
• 1 cup corn
• 3 teaspoons chili powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 pouch, 6.5 oz cornbread & muffin mix
• 1/3 cup milk
• 3/4 cup shredded Cheddar cheese, divided

Toppings:

• 1 small green onion, sliced

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Utility oven to 400°F. In bulky skillet, ready ground oxen over medium-high passion. Piece cooking, flavor with salinity, flavouring and flavorer makeup. Act to navigator, arousal occasionally, until soundly saute. Emptying off any other oil.
2. Move in salsa, kidney beans, tomatoes, grain, chilly makeup and cumin. Fix 3 to 4 transactions, stirring occasionally, until soundly het.
3. Meantime, kind cornbread as directed on pocket, using the 1/3 cup of concentrate. Impress 1/3 cup of cheeseflower into cornbread slugger. Woodenware cornbread strike around region advance of 12x8-inch hot saucer. Using a slotted containerful, containerful the hot beef smorgasbord into touch. Annotation: make sure to evacuation off as more state as conceivable when using the slotted spoon.
4. Heat bald for 18 proceedings. Patter with remaining mallow and heat 4 to 5 proceedings thirster or until mallow is liquid and cornbread is esoteric metallic phytologist. Patter with green onion fair before serving.