Ingredients

  • 1 12 cups buttermilk
  • 3 large eggs
  • 13 cup fresh basil
  • 2 cups yellow cornmeal
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 12 cup sugar
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 12 cup unsalted butter, diced
  • 1 12 cups corn

Method

  • Preheat oven to 400F Brush muffin pans with butter.
  • Chop basil as finely as possible.
  • Whisk buttermilk, eggs, and basil in large bowl.
  • Blend cornmeal, flour, sugar, and baking powder in food processor for 10 seconds.
  • Dice 1 stick of butter (ie., 1/2 cup) and blend with dry ingredients until coarse meal forms.
  • Stir ingredients from food processor into buttermilk mixture, mixing in a little bit at a time.
  • Make sure clumps of butter have been dissolved.
  • Add corn kernels and stir thoroughly.
  • Transfer mixture to muffin pans.
  • Bake cornbread until golden on top and toothpick inserted into center comes out clean (about 15 minutes).
  • Cool 20 minutes.
  • Serve warm or at room temperature.