Beefy Cheesy Tamale Pie EASY
today I'm going to show you how to make an easy tamale pie I know it's tamales and Tamal but for searchability purposes we're calling it tamale pie and it's easy because I'm going to be using Jiffy cornbread mix instead of making it from scratch if you do have my cookbook I do have scratch made cornbread recipe that goes with the chili con carne the beefy cheesy goodness either way it's going to be good and it's a meal that is in one baking dish so good here we go in a preheated pan a pound of lean ground beef a little bit of cooking oil I should have added that first like two tablespoons because I am going to make a roux after I cook this and there's not enough fat but if you're using 80 20 then you don't need to add cooking oil so I'm going to break this apart while the ground beef is cooking I'm going to show you out of my cookbook I like to make enchiladas the Tex-Mex way and the red sauce here these are the ingredients I'm pretty much going to be using to make the red sauce to make my chile con carne and if you take a look at that screenshot it I'll probably put it in the comment section but that's pretty much the ratios and list of ingredients that I'm using to go into the ground beef and here I've added all of those dry seasonings flour bouillon powder it's all mixed up in here and it's going into my ground beef okay going into my ground beef I'm going to shake in all of this seasoning spice blend with a flour in the mix because it's going to create a roux and it's going to become the chili con carne Saucy beefy goodness that goes into this tamale pie and I'm going to work this in and cook this for a couple of minutes two cups of water going in you want to work that in a little bit scraping up any fond at the bottom of the pan and it will start to thicken as it simmers and Cooks going in with the rest of it give it a mix let it simmer bring it to simmer and let it thicken and then it's done and I'm going to set that aside when it's done it has thickened and it's simmering for a couple of minutes you'll want to shut off the heat and you'll also want to taste it for salt and seasoning and adjust to your preference for the cornbread part I'm going with an can definitely make your cornbread from scratch I just wanted to go easy today I'm also going to add a small can of green chilies you could do mild medium or spicy or just leave it out I'm also going to go with a can of corn one large egg you want to make sure that it's a good egg Good Egg going in foreign cup of milk I'm going with just a handful of cheese maybe we'll do like three to four ounces of cheese I had a whole block of colby jack cheese that I um grated it was an eight ounce block and part of it goes into the cornbread the other part I'm gonna top this with and I'm just going to give this a good mix you hear my cat in a buttered 12 or 8 by 12 this is a quart baking dish and 8x12 I'm going to add all of my cornbread mixture so you want to spread this out and now I'm going to pour all of my chile con carve on top right on top and just kind of spread that out don't worry about covering it with more cornbread mixture it's going to bake and get all nice and you know what there is a little bit left I'll just throw that just do that okay now with the rest of my colby jack cheese going on top okay oh yes this is done oh so good it smells wonderful and look at that how cute there's a cornbread Island right in the center so I'm going to remove this from the oven carefully before my face melts off but yeah this is done okay so I want to check this because typically I divide the dough in half half on bottom half on top so it might need longer to cook but I think it's done oh yes oh my gosh look at that that's the cornbread so if you do want to divide the dough to make it like layered you can I just went for an easy version of this I'm going to let this set for about 10 to 15 minutes before diving into it I'm going to garnish with some chopped scallions and I have a little bit of Mexican sour cream here we go Moment of Truth so it has set for like 10 minutes longer would be better I'm just going to cut into this and I'm just going to scoop it out it's gonna slide because this is just a saucy cheesy bake if you want more cornbread to meat sauce ratio then Maybe double the Jiffy here look I'm getting all of this look at that the cornbread cooked so nicely going to do my Crema I'm really trying to make it look like something and then my scallions on top a lot of people like to do black olives salsa your choice it's your world it's your tamale pie World we're just living in it but that's dinner oh it's hot layers of cornbread cheesy beefy Saucy goodness.
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