Corn Bread-Topped Chicken and Vegetable Cobbler

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Potpies are conscionable plain appealing, but the crust and filling are loaded with abdominous and calories.

Here, maize breadstuff takes the spot of a modular pastry crust. It brings fiber, spirit and a savory-sweet homeyness to the dish. I similar to commencement with the look connected the backmost of a cornmeal package, but consciousness escaped to improvise.

I usage cornstarch, not the accustomed butter-and-flour roux, to thicken the filling. The lone tricky portion is that there's nary cleanable ratio of cornstarch to broth. You mightiness request to adhd other cornstarch dissolved successful wine, broth oregon acold water.

Adapted from a look connected the Indian Head marque cornmeal package, by columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8

For the filling

2 tablespoons mild olive oil
1 mean onion, finely chopped (1 cup)
Kosher salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
6 ounces carrots, scrubbed well, past chopped into pea-size pieces (generous 1 cup)
Kernels from 2 ears of maize (may substitute 1 1/3 cups defrosted maize kernels)
1 lb cooked skinless white-meat chicken, chopped oregon torn into bite-size pieces (from 1 1/2 pounds raw)
10 sprigs thyme
3 1/2 cups homemade oregon no-salt-added chickenhearted broth, oregon much arsenic needed
7 ounces frozen peas, defrosted (1 1/2 cups)
3 tablespoons cornstarch, oregon much arsenic needed
1/3 cupful adust achromatic wine, oregon much arsenic needed

For the topping

1 cupful yellowish cornmeal
1 cupful flour
1/4 cupful sugar
1 tablespoonful baking powder
1/2 spoon salt
1/4 cupful mild olive oil
1 cupful low-fat beverage (2 percent)
1 ample egg, beaten

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

Calories
450
Fat
15 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
50 g
Sodium
540 mg
Cholesterol
90 mg
Protein
26 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
10 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from a look connected the Indian Head marque cornmeal package, by columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published April 30, 2013

Updated March 14, 2026