Leftover Cornbread Ideas

During strawberry season, I cut the squares in half or crumble them sprinkle with sugar or your choice of sweetener and warm slightly in microwave & make it into strawberry shortcake (or other fresh fruit) Whipped cream too of course.

My grandmother pan-fried it and served it with gravy for breakfast. Absolutely no good for you, but delicious!

Split a square in two, butter each side and put them face down on a hot griddle

I would freeze it; and then make cornbread crumbs when a recipe calls for them!

lovely as a base for sauteed mushrooms. add a poached or fried egg and you have brunch.

Italian bread salad with cubed toasted cornbread or cornbread salad.

Make a crumble/buckle/betty/pie topping out of it. It's already cooked through once, so I'd pre-bake a blueberry/blackberry/peach crumble for half of the normal time. Take it out of the oven, and add your cornbread crumble-basically substitute the cornmeal for the flour component, reduce the sugar if your cornbread was made with sugar, add butter and pulse away in the food processor. Jacques Pepin uses this technique even with bread.

Makes an awesome breakfast strata too.

I use cornmeal in my corn pudding (https://food52.com/recipes/28509-summer-corn-pudding-with-basil-and-chives) - I'm thinking that you could crumble in dry cornbread instead, for a savory cornbread pudding.

You may have already considered this, but how about this recent Genius salad? https://food52.com/recipes/31347-chris-schlesinger-john-willoughby-s-grilled-sausage-and-cornbread-salad

I crumble it and stir into chili as it cooks. The great thing is, you can do this even if the cornbread gets really dry, because the liquid softens it. Yum!

I love it as a toasty buttery crouton on top of any salad.

Thats exactly what I would do save it for dressing but I dry it and put in airtight container and keep for Thanksgiving.

Especially since it’s the weekend, I’d never get past just toasting it and slathering with butter!

Lots of good stuffing recipes on this site, which you could probably freeze.

Cubed and lightly toasted in the oven, then used as a bed for roasting a chicken. Sort of a take on Zuni’s chicken and bread salad – that recipe is on this site too.

There have been some great recipes/Columns on the site lately, for roasted winter vegetables. Toss in some cubed, lightly-toasted cornbread.

Hello, lucky you! My family loves leftover cornbread warmed up and spread with jam for breakfast or snacks, if it helps!