Gluten-Free Corn Muffins With A Santa Fe Twist

Gluten-Free Corn Muffins - A Spicy New Recipe



Steve whipped up these chile studded golden morsels of corny goodness this week to have on hand for the Crock Pot stews we plan to make.

These would also be perfection with this tasty chili. But I digress...


Because I have something to say. Long time readers know my heart is often tugged in multiple directions. Yanked this way, and pulled that way. Like one long, drunken walk of contradiction. Opposing strategies, assumptions, and intentions collide and churn and grip my emotional little pump like a fist- far more often than I care to admit. For all kinds of reasons. If I was a believer in astrology I would now confess my Gemini imprint. Which allegedly explains my dual nature and divergent tendencies. I have always pursued two paths at once, and wrangled opposites like the celestial twins I supposedly embody.

But the only current subscription card I carry is not to the stars above in any connect-the-dot sense, but to the Big Kahuna. The Mother of All. That's right.

Love.

Because love can penetrate the darkest hour. Denial can be pinched and slapped and prodded awake. Compassion can be sexy. Golden Rule ethics are hawt. The still small voice within can be excavated. And heard. And sung.

I know, I know. My Age of Aquarius hippie artist inclusive proclivities are showing.

And if I could?

I would invite you all over for cocoa and muffins. I would make you a big bowl of mulligatawny and hand you my favorite spoon, and play some Yo Yo Ma and James Taylor on the HiFi. We could watch the deer outside the kitchen window as snowflakes spin their magic just before dark. The recipe I would make would be this new corn muffin recipe spiked with spicy green chiles and golden pumpkin.

A match made in heaven.

Or hatched by a Gemini goddess wrestling with light and dark (and rainbows!).

You decide.





Gluten-Free Corn Muffins - A Spicy New Recipe


Karina's Gluten-Free Wheat-Free Corn Muffins - A Spicy New Recipe with a Santa Fe Twist

Recipe originally posted January 2013 by Karina Allrich.

As we started gathering ingredients for our favorite corn muffins, we just so happened to have some leftover canned pumpkin in the fridge (secret ingredient!). And some Trader Joe's roasted green chiles. What happened next? A new recipe was born.

Ingredients:

1 cup sorghum flour
3/4 cup (gluten-free certified) cornmeal
1/2 cup potato starch (not potato flour)
1/2 cup organic light brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 teaspoon GF chili powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 free-range organic eggs, beaten
1/2 cup expeller pressed organic Canola oil
1/2 cup warm milk or non-dairy milk
1/2 cup canned pumpkin or winter squash
1 4-oz can chopped roasted green chiles, drained
A sprinkle of cinnamon and GF chili powder for topping

Instructions:

Preheat your oven to 375ºF. Line a 12-muffin tin with paper liners.

In a large mixing bowl whisk together the sorghum flour, GF cornmeal, potato starch, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, xanthan gum, sea salt, chili powder, and cinnamon.

Add in the eggs, oil, milk/non-dairy milk, pumpkin and beat until a smooth batter forms. You can use elbow grease and a wooden spoon, or your trusty mixer.

Stir in the chopped roasted green chiles by hand.

Spoon the batter into the muffin cups, and smooth out the tops with wet fingers. Sprinkle with a touch of cinnamon or chili powder.

 Bake in the center of a preheated oven for 20 minutes, until domed and golden. The tops should be firm to a light touch. Test doneness with a clean toothpick, if you like.

Cool the muffins on a wire rack. Serve warm for fabulous flavor.


Wrap, bag and freeze leftover muffins to preserve fresh-baked texture and taste. Reheat on a griddle with a dab of butter, or olive oil.

Wonderful with a bowl of hot soup or chili. Delicioso with Mexican food.

Makes one dozen muffins.


Recipe Source: glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com

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Gluten-Free Corn Muffins - A Spicy New Recipe


GFG Notes:


For my vegan companions- Steve made this corn muffin recipe with eggs, but I know they'd also work with Ener-G egg replacer. See this older corn muffin recipe for proof.
We used organic soy milk- but any milk or plain non-dairy milk will work.
No pumpkin on hand? I've also made a version of these using cooked sweet potato.

As for flour changes- I hesitate to recommend any rice flours these days. I'd say- use your favorite blend- but- realize you may not achieve the lovely crumb we got here, with sorghum flour, cornmeal and potato starch (there really is a difference in GF flours- the blends we are whisking up these days are not gummy or gritty or dense- they are light and tender).

Remember to keep your added ingredients on the room temperature to warm side- adding in ice cold pumpkin puree or milk will chill down the batter and require a longer bake time.


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