Vegan Cornbread recipe (dairy, gluten, egg, refined sugar, and soy free)

Yum!

Just make sure to buy organic, fine ground cornmeal or regrind it yourself till it's powdery.

I used organic coconut palm sugar as my sweetener.

Recipe:

Combine dry ingredients:

• 1 cup yellow cornmeal
• 1/2 cup gluten-free flour blend (I get mine at Trader Joe’s. It’s a blend of brown rice glower, potato starch, rice flour, and tapioca flour.)
• 2 T sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 Tablespoon aluminum-free baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

{You can store this mix in your pantry for a few months, if you wish.}

When ready to bake, you need to essentially make a dairy-free buttermilk. The buttermilk will substitute for egg as a leavening ingredient in your cornmeal. To make this buttermilk, mix together:

• slightly less than 1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
• 1T distilled white vinegar

Let it sit for five minutes.  Satisfy your inner scientist as you watch it bubble up like an experiment. 

Then, add:

• 1/4 c palm shortening or coconut oil
• additional 1/4 c of coconut milk

Pour the buttermilk and shortening into the dry ingredients and mix just until blended. Do not overmix.

Pour into greased muffin tins, or a greased 9 x 9 glass baking dish. For muffins, bake at 375 degrees for 22 minutes. For the 9 x 9 pan, bake at the same temperature, testing at 20 minutes for done-ness.

I love to top with butter and a drizzle of honey, and crumble over whatever chili or beans I’m serving up. Just home-fried, down-home, southern-baked amazingness. The end.

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For a more moist, super yummy muffin, add "some" of this delicious creamed corn:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cream-Corn-Like-No-Other/

Note: I left out the pepper and cheese. I  used coconut cream instead of heavy cream and unsweetened almond milk instead of whole milk. For the sugar I used coconut palm sugar. I also used my gluten free flour mix instead of regular all purpose flour. I made it in the rice cooker instead of on the stove. After about 10 minutes I switched it from "on" to "warm" and let it sit for a while till the liquid reduced.