Easy Tamale Pie
Easy Tamale Pie

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, easy tamale pie. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Tamale Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Easy Tamale Pie is something which I have loved my entire life.

Savory and full of Southwestern-inspired flavors, this easy tamale pie is a weeknight dinner that's sure to fill you up. This Easy Tamale Pie will make a great weeknight meal. My grandma used to make a Mexican casserole with the same flavors as this tamale pie and it was one of my favorite childhood meals.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have easy tamale pie using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Tamale Pie:
  1. Take Filling
  2. Take 1 lb ground beef
  3. Make ready 1 onion diced
  4. Get 1-2 jalapeños (or as many as you like)
  5. Get 2 (15 oz) cans of pinto or black beans
  6. Prepare 1 can (28 oz) crushed tomatoes
  7. Prepare Topping
  8. Make ready 1 box Jiffy cornbread mix
  9. Make ready 1 (14 oz) can creamed corn
  10. Make ready 1 egg
  11. Make ready 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Layers of cornbread, ground beef and cheese. Made in one skillet and ready in a jiffy. Ground beef, cornmeal, tomatoes, and black olives are mixed together and baked until hot and bubbly in this easy tamale-inspired pie. My Mom has made this for years and it was always one of my favorites growing up.

Steps to make Easy Tamale Pie:
  1. Preheat oven to 400
  2. In a cast iron skillet brown the beef, then drain.
  3. Add the onions and jalapeños to the beef and cook for 1 minute. Then remove from heat.
  4. Combine the beans and tomatoes with the beef and onions.
  5. In a mixing bowl mix the 1st 3 ingredients for the topping.
  6. Add the cornbread mixture on top of the beef mixture.
  7. Add cheese and bake for approximately 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Something about the Southwestern flavors and the cheesiness and the warm cornbread topping just gets me every time. Most tamale pies consists of a flavorful ground beef base and cornbread topping. Instead of covering the beef with a cornbread. Chef John's ground beef and cornbread casserole gives you delicious tamale flavors in an easy weeknight dinner. Chef John's ground beef and cornbread casserole gives you delicious tamale flavors in an easy weeknight dinner..

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