Mexican Johnny Cakes (Hoe Cakes) With Our Pinto Beans

In Sep 2022, I posted about our meal of Pinto Beans and Hoe Cakes but this meal is different in that we used our recipe for Mexican Cornbread for the cakes.  Johnny Cakes are made along the eastern seaboard from New England into the Caribbean Islands and are often called Hoe Cakes in the US South.  For this meal, I cut our Mexican cornbread recipe in half to get the one below.

MEXICAN CORNBREAD

Ingredients:

1 cup self rising corn meal mix (White Lilly or Martha White)

2 med eggs, lightly beaten

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1/2 sml onion, finely chopped

1/2 sml green pepper, finely chopped

1/2 cup cheese, shredded

1/2 cup buttermilk (more or less for desired consistency)

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 ea Jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely diced

1/2 cup whole kernel corn, drained

Melted bacon grease

Directions:

1. Preheat griddle then brush on bacon grease.

2. Mix together meal, eggs, oil, soda, and buttermilk.

3. Stir in other ingredients.

4. Pour the cornbread batter onto a fairly hot griddle, cook until side one is done, then flip onto regreased surface and cook until done.  I wanted them to be a little crispy on the edges.

We also had a little salad with it.

I had a bit of a snafu with the beans.  Bev said she wanted to have extra to make into refried beans for the freezer so I just got out our bag of beans and dumped them in our stock pot with water to soak overnight.  However, I didn’t notice that it was a four-pound bag and the next morning, the eight quart pot was pretty full of soaked beans. 

So, I just doubled the pinto bean recipe shown in the above link, cooked them in our 16 quart pot, and began to plan for using the beans.

The Verdict:

Cindy said she wasn’t sure she would like this meal (she wasn’t familiar with a johnny cake) then after eating it she wanted to have it again the next day.  It was a simple and delicious country meal and the Mexican cornbread worked very well as johnny cakes and this will be the go-to recipe for the future.

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Have a great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.

Larry

9/7/23 meal date