Jalapeno And Bacon Cornbread Muffins

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 8 slices bacon
• 2 tablespoons crisco or 2 tablespoons other vegetable shortening
• 2 eggs
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 5 pickled jalapeno peppers, stemmed, drained and chopped
• 1 tablespoon jalapeno juice
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 2 cups cornmeal
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 425-degrees f.
• 2 fry bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crisp (10-15 minutes).
• 3 transfer bacon to paper towels to drain.
• 4 crumble bacon and set aside.
• 5 pour bacon fat into a bowl and set aside.
• 6 melt crisco and 2 tablespoons of the bacon fat together in the same skillet over medium heat.
• 7 grease a muffin tin with remaining bacon grease and transfer to oven so muffin tin will be hot.
• 8 in a large bowl beat eggs.
• 9 add bacon, onions, jalapenos, pickling juice, sugar, baking soda, salt, cumin and pepper and stir well to combine.
• 10 add cornmeal and buttermilk and stir to combine.
• 11 add the hot fat (from the skillet) and stir until combined.
• 12 remove muffin tin from oven.
• 13 pour batter into muffin tins.
• 14 bake or 15-20 minutes or until done and toothpick comes clean.