Cornbread Omelet Recipe
This Cornbread Omelet is a great way to throw together a quick supper or lunch and you can use whatever you have on hand as filling options. It also cooks up in just a few minutes.
In the past while I was at the National Cornbread Festival I came across a cornbread omelet. I was intrigued, though it didn’t sound all that good at the start but my curiosity was piqued and I was won over at first bite!
If you like omelets with all the goodies inside and you love that delicate crispness around the crust of cornbread, you’ve just met your new best friend (that’d be me–or this omelet).
Oh and it’s good. I mentioned that, right?
Let’s get cooking!
Recipe Ingredients: Milk, egg, a little bit of vegetable oil, and self rising corn meal mix and whatever you want for the omelet filling.
For the filling, use whatever you like in your omelets or whatever you have on hand.
Veggies, leftover ham, turkey, chicken, anything will do.
I’m using some frozen pepper and onion blend and bacon.
The only thing you really need for your filling is *cheese* because that is what holds this whole shenanigan together.
Place all of your cornbread batter ingredients in a bowl.
Mix that up well.
Basically this is just a thin cornbread batter, kind of the consistency of pancake batter.
So please pretend this is a clear picture. I mean, hey, it’s peppers and onions in a skillet. Good enough to demonstrate that, right?
Take a small nonstick pan and sauté your filling ingredients. I sprayed mine with nonstick cooking spray but you can use a pat of butter or a wee bit of oil if you’d like to cook them in or if your pan isn’t as nonstick as you’d like for it to be.
Cook this over medium to medium high heat until veggies are just tender.
Set your veggies aside and then spray the pan again with cooking spray, or add a tablespoon of butter or oil to it.
Place pan over medium heat again. If you opted for butter or oil, let it heat up a minute or two.
Pour a very thin layer of batter into the bottom of the skillet and immediate tilt your skillet all around a it in order to spread it out over the whole bottom. Cook for a minute or two, until bubbles form on top and the bottom is browned.
Then flip.
Cook this for a minute or so until it lightly browns on the bottom.
Flip it over again and add in your filings, beginning with cheese and ending with cheese. 
Flip that over and let it cook just until the cheese begins to melt.
Take a quick photo, take a quick bite, smile and say Mmm, Mmm!
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Self Rising Corn Meal Mix
- 1 Cup Milk
- 1 Egg
- 2 Tablespoons Oil
- 2 Cups cheddar cheese
- 2-3 Cups of Filling ingredients of your choice onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, cooked bacon, cooked ham, cooked chicken, etc
Instructions
- Place small omelet skillet over medium heat.
- In a medium mixing bowl, place milk, egg, oil, and corn meal mix. Stir until well combined and smooth.
- Add filling ingredients to your skillet and sauté until tender. Remove from skillet and wipe skillet out before returning to stove eye. Spray skillet again with nonstick cooking spray or add a tablespoon of oil or butter. Allow to heat. Pour a thin layer of cornbread batter into skillet, tilting skillet around until it coats the bottom. Cook until top is bubbled and bottom is browned. Flip and cook until just lightly browned on the other side. Top omelet with 1/4 cup of cheese, 1/2 cup filling ingredients, and another 1/4 cup cheese. Fold over and press down lightly with spatula to help seal. Cook just until cheese begins to melt. Remove to plate and make remaining omelets.
Makes 4 Cornbread omelets and 2-4 happy stomachs 🙂
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How about these cornbread recipes…
“I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the
soul saying, ‘Ain’t that the truth.’”
~Quincy Jones
OH Christy,I am so thankful you did not pass out and the omlet burn and maybe even burn your house down! The good Lord really was watching out for you! So glad you are ok.Did they have to shave any part of your hair? We have alot of squirrels too.We once thought they lay out flat like that when they are extra hot.Guess its been hot there too! Guess we’re in for a long hot summer.Think up some “cool” dishes for us. love you girl! Rita
Now THAT my friends…is a dedicated blogger!! 😉
I love you, Christy!! HaHa!!
~giggles~ I am not sure if it was dedication or stubborness 😉 Love you too April!!
Caught between laughing and feeling sorry for you: laughing won out when I knew you ended up okay. I think all of us have had ” comical” accidents in our life. I for one have had some doozies :))
Oh, I had to laugh at myself Imogene. Some of the things I get myself it to amaze even me.
OUCH! Poor Christy! I’m glad you’re okay and were able to keep your sense of humor 🙂 And the omelet looks fantastic, what a great idea!! Just made omelets for dinner this week with mushrooms and pesto monterey jack but cornbread omelets sound great.
i hope you get to try them soon!! Let me know what you think once you do.
Christy, I can relate to your accident. Hope you’re OK. We have a big upright freezer and I was kneeling on the floor and getting something from the bottom shelf. You guessed it – something fell on my head from the top shelf. It was a very large frozen chicken. Talk about seeing stars. Don’t know how I didn’t pass out. I had a very large bump on the back of my head. When I tell this to my doctors they first start out saying :” That’s terrible” then they all laugh uncontrollobly!
Oh my goodness Helen! We must be cut from the same cloth. LOL
Oh my, I have never laughed so hard reading your post and then all the comments that were posted. Your hubby would have had an even more “surprised” look on his face if he had found you in the closet with your head in a bloody towel, face down in the carpet! Thank goodness you didn’t pass out while you were trying to finish cooking the omelet. That could have been one ‘firey-omelet’…Yikes…
Years ago I was running to grab the ringing telephone and ran into my barstool with my bare foot. My foot was in agony and I went right ahead answering the phone like nothing was wrong with me. It was someone with a wrong number and I had to go to the ER with two broken toes!! The things we get ourselves into….
“Henry?” So funny! YEARS ago I named them all BUSTER. We love your recipes and stories you tell. This particular recipe looks like one my husband would really love. I’ll have to let you know how it turns out.
Shucks, Christy! I thought the last picture on the post would be of the head wound! That cornbread crepe looked burnt to perfection…hehe.