Sausage Chilli Con Carne With Cornbread Muffins

katea · nigella.com · Serves: 6

Against 250 cornbread recipes

Less egg than 98% of recipes and less salt than 86%.

How it compares

Against the typical pan: the median of 250 cornbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.

Less egg than 98% of recipes: 15% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 34%, about half as much.
Less salt than 86% of recipes: 0.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about half as much.
More leavening than 81% of recipes: 5.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.1%.
Less buttermilk than 76% of recipes: 81% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 93%.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

1 teaspoon cumin≈ 4.9 g
1 teaspoon chili powder≈ 4.9 g
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper≈ 1.2 g
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 1.3 g
½ teaspoon unsweetened cocoa≈ 0.9 g
1 teaspoon oregano≈ 4.9 g
1 tin kidney beansn/a
4 ounces sliced chorizo113 g
1 large sliced red onionn/a
2 cloves chopped garlicn/a
1 pound sausages (if using normal, chop up into 3 or just use cocktail sausages)454 g
1 tablespoon oil≈ 14 g
1 can tinned tomatoes (normal sized can)n/a
marsala (a big slug)n/a
lemon juicen/a
saltn/a
peppern/a
¼ pint chicken broth≈ 119 g
6 ounces all-purpose flour (or self-raising flour)170 g
4 teaspoons baking powder (if using self-raising flour, reduce to 2 teaspoons)≈ 18 g
6 ounces cornmeal170 g
3 ounces granulated sugar85 g
¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
1 egg≈ 50 g
3 ounces butter85 g
9 fluid ounces milk≈ 275 g

flour 340 gbatter 1572 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 250 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: cornmeal share, buttermilk, fat, sugar, egg, leavening, salt.