Fried Cornmeal Mush Recipe

How to make it

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• Boil water.
• While waiting for water to boil, add ice cubes and water to loaf pan and set aside so that the loaf pan will get very cold.
• Add salt to now boiling water.
• Slowly add two cups of corn meal and whisk all the while to prevent any lumps in your "corn meal mush".
• Once mixture starts to boil (big bubbles will pop up out of the mixture), turn down heat to a simmer and put lid on top of sauce pan.
• Continue to cook for 15 minutes.
• Pour out ice cold water and ice cubes from loaf pan.
• Add cooked cornmeal mixture to loaf pan let cool for five minutes before wrapping and covering loaf pan with plastic wrap.
• Place load pan into fridge with the cooked corn meal in fridge overnight to set.
• ****Wake up time - and time to fry....
• In large skillet or cast iron skillet, let skillet get hot with preferred shortening of our choice.
• Take out loaf pan, remove plastic and cut 1/2" slices of the corn meal mush.
• In flat bowl or plate, add 1/2 cup of flour, dredge corn meal mush slices on both sides with flour and shake off any excess and carefully place into hot skillet.
• You might have to do this in batches if making it for a crowd.
• So heat up the oven to 275 degrees and have a cookie sheet with some paper towels placed on top and into the oven to transfer any cooked corn meal mush until ready to serve.
• I have done this so many times for crowds and having the oven on a "keep food warm" heat really helps - the cookie sheet helps keep the slices crisp.
• The corn meal mush will take about 7minutes per side.
• Be careful that your skillet is not too hot, you don't want a smoky kitchen, but rather you want the corn meal mush to slowly fry.
• Using spatula, carefully flip over when one side is done.
• This is literally one of my favorite (only a couple times of year) naughty breakfast dishes - the slices are crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside - serve with warmed up syrup and your favorite butter along with sausages or bacon makes for an amazing and naughty breakfast!
• See comments for alterations for making an interesting savory appetizers that can be reheated for your parties!
• Photo shown has corn meal mush fried then cut into half which I do not do. I will place a photo of my own soon. Happy corn meal mushing!