This Cornbread Omelet is a great way to throw together a quick supper or lunch and you can use whatever you have on hand as filling options. It also cooks up in just a few minutes.

In the past while I was at the National Cornbread Festival I came across a cornbread omelet. I was intrigued, though it didn’t sound all that good at the start but my curiosity was piqued and I was won over at first bite!

If you like omelets with all the goodies inside and you love that delicate crispness around the crust of cornbread, you’ve just met your new best friend (that’d be me–or this omelet).

Oh and it’s good. I mentioned that, right?

Let’s get cooking!

Recipe Ingredients: Milk, egg, a little bit of vegetable oil, and self rising corn meal mix and whatever you want for the omelet filling.

For the filling, use whatever you like in your omelets or whatever you have on hand.

Veggies, leftover ham, turkey, chicken, anything will do.

I’m using some frozen pepper and onion blend and bacon.

The only thing you really need for your filling is *cheese* because that is what holds this whole shenanigan together.

Place all of your cornbread batter ingredients in a bowl.

Mix that up well.

Basically this is just a thin cornbread batter, kind of the consistency of pancake batter.

So please pretend this is a clear picture. I mean, hey, it’s peppers and onions in a skillet. Good enough to demonstrate that, right?

Take a small nonstick pan and sauté your filling ingredients. I sprayed mine with nonstick cooking spray but you can use a pat of butter or a wee bit of oil if you’d like to cook them in or if your pan isn’t as nonstick as you’d like for it to be.

Cook this over medium to medium high heat until veggies are just tender.

Set your veggies aside and then spray the pan again with cooking spray, or add a tablespoon of butter or oil to it.

Place pan over medium heat again. If you opted for butter or oil, let it heat up a minute or two.

Pour a very thin layer of batter into the bottom of the skillet and immediate tilt your skillet all around a it in order to spread it out over the whole bottom. Cook for a minute or two, until bubbles form on top and the bottom is browned.

Then flip.

Cook this for a minute or so until it lightly browns on the bottom.

Flip it over again and add in your filings, beginning with cheese and ending with cheese.

Flip that over and let it cook just until the cheese begins to melt.

Take a quick photo, take a quick bite, smile and say Mmm, Mmm!

Cornbread Omelets

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Ingredients

1 Cup Self Rising Corn Meal Mix
1 Cup Milk
1 Egg
2 Tablespoons Oil
2 Cups cheddar cheese
2-3 Cups of Filling ingredients of your choice onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, cooked bacon, cooked ham, cooked chicken, etc

Instructions

Place small omelet skillet over medium heat.
In a medium mixing bowl, place milk, egg, oil, and corn meal mix. Stir until well combined and smooth.
Add filling ingredients to your skillet and sauté until tender. Remove from skillet and wipe skillet out before returning to stove eye. Spray skillet again with nonstick cooking spray or add a tablespoon of oil or butter. Allow to heat. Pour a thin layer of cornbread batter into skillet, tilting skillet around until it coats the bottom. Cook until top is bubbled and bottom is browned. Flip and cook until just lightly browned on the other side. Top omelet with 1/4 cup of cheese, 1/2 cup filling ingredients, and another 1/4 cup cheese. Fold over and press down lightly with spatula to help seal. Cook just until cheese begins to melt. Remove to plate and make remaining omelets.

Makes 4 Cornbread omelets and 2-4 happy stomachs 🙂

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113 Comments

Being a Texas gal, I like the bottom of the cornbread so much, I would flip it over in the black cast-iron skillent so the top and bottom both are crunchy! My husband (South Dakota boy – believe me, it ain’t anything like South Carolina), hated it when I did that because he likes the soft part so now I eat the bottoms and he eats the tops! But I would LOVE this omelet. He is out of town today so I know what I’m having for supper! I really love your recipes and posts. Keep up the good work and watch out for the hateful stoneware dishes!

Christy, I think you and I just might be related! Maybe you’re a long-lost daughter I didn’t know about. You sound so much like me….a younger version anyway. I’ve only been following your site since Saturday, after I saw you on a re-run Paula Deen Best Dishes show, and have wished that I had heard of you a lot sooner! Everything you say and do just falls right in line with the things in my life. Oh, and that accent that Paula and Bobby made fun of…..even though you’re from Alabama and I’m from Texas, I didn’t hear any accent! They were the ones that talked funny. Good luck to you, and keep up the good work.

Oh, and sorry about your accident. Glad you’re OK. You sure one of the Henrys didn’t climb up there and PUSH those plates down on you? 🙂

This one was really hard. I have this horrible thing where I laugh at head wounds involuntarily so it was compounded by the story behind it. If I were not posting to my good proper friend’s Christy’s blog I would say that sounds like some stupid sh…er stuff I would do. I saw a movie one time where a guy was carrying a big double armful of rakes and shovels and other make shift Zombie killing tools when the elevator doors opened. He leaned in to see the doors led down to a long fall with no elevator. He turned to get out and keep from falling only to have all the rakes and such hit the door and make him fall down the shaft. I am quite sure that will happen to me one day. lol

Hi Christy,

Sure glad you are alright. I like your thought on food photos. Interesting omelet, but it does sound good.

You’re too funny! Omelet looks great though!

Sounds great and planning on fixing it either this afternoon or tomorrow. I love cornbread. My husband and I came to the Cornbread festival last Saturday but I didn’t get a chance to meet you. (Would have loved to though). It was our first visit.

Now – where is the picture of your head injury? I would love to see your husband’s face.

See…just proves my theory…MOST hardheaded women in the South can take a “plate licking”, go get some stiches, and STILL get supper on the table! (Our crawdads up here in our Kentucky creek are all named “Steve”. lol)

Cornbread Omelet Recipe