Ingredients: (this serves a lot!) 1 medium onion 1 bell pepper chopped 1 lb ground beef or ground pork 4 boxes of Jiffy Cornbread, made per directions 1 pkt taco seasoning mix 1/2 can black beans drained, rinsed 1/2 can corn drained 1 can rotel, undrained (can use diced tomatoes if you dont want spice) couple cups fresh spinach 2 cups cheese for cornbread, plus a little for sprinkling on top

I also know this as tamale pie, I add olives, mushrooms as well, and when it comes out of the oven to prevent a dry crust on the cornbread, I lightly roll a cube of butter over the crust & to top it off I sprinkle a layer of cheese over it with & top with a sprinkling of green onions& thinly sluced tomatoes.. Yummm!

When money was tight, I would bake the Jiffy cornmeal mix on top of a can of chili in an 8” X 8” pan. Kids loved it….we’d pour a little honey on it for a treat.

I too realize this is a year old post but KZfaq suggested your channel to me. First, I was soooo happily surprised and impressed that a mom/cook boosted the nutrition profile by adding the spinach. All of these delicious looking comfort food recipes are always “3 blocks of Velveta, 2 containers is sour cream, 2 blocks of cream cheese, a bag of precooked white rice, 2 cups of sugar, 4 cans of mushroom soup,and a topping of Fritos!” Usually that is followed by “ don’t worry about any old vegetables in here, no sir. It’s straight processed fat, fake cheese, and a whole bunch of preservatives!” The finished product looks good but it wouldn’t be allowed in our house, let alone in our kids ! I could always alter the recipe but the whole point is to find a completed, good recipe I can quickly follow. Why do so few mom’s not understand the purpose of food….to nourish the people who eat it. Good job “mom” and thanks. I will be making this …..a lot of goodness here!

I ate this dish often as a kid. One difference is my mom would add some sliced black olives to the mix. Great recipe.

When a cook’s first words are “hey y’all” just go ahead, buckle up and get ready for some good food with a southern edge. 😁

I like her she use ingredients that's easy to access at any grocery store.. And this is a great recipe for beginners.

You have high protein beef & beans, hi fiber, vitamin C, antioxidant & lycopene in tomatoes, and of coarse the spinach. So you see, you HAVE presented all of us with a one pan, healthy meal!! Thank- you most kindly😃🙏❣️

My husband loves cornbread, so I made this for tonight's dinner. I didn't have any Jiffy Cornbread mix or taco seasoning, so I had to make the taco seasoning and cornbread from scratch. My veggie chopper was broken, so I had to chop everything by hand. The whole thing took me an hour, leaving me crabby and out of sorts when I put the dish into the oven. But it was TOTALLY WORTH IT! Not only did my husband love it, but it tasted delicious and plated up beautifully--good enough for company! From now on, I'll have Jiffy Cornbread Mix and taco seasoning in my pantry. Many thanks for sharing this wonderful casserole.

I know you posted this a year ago but I found your channel today. KZfaq recommended your channel. I made a huge crock-pot full of chilli today. So I decided to make this with it! It turned out fantastic! My family loved it!! Thank you!

To make your own taco seasoning mix, just mix up: garlic powder, onion powder, salt, black pepper, cumin, chili powder, paprika....a tablespoon or so of each to your taste.

I made this on a whim today. I know I hit a home run when one of the kids came into the kitchen after taking one bite and said "You gotta make this more often, it rocks." This particular kid NEVER even notices what she eats. Tastes great, filling, not expensive. A great recipe. Thanks!!!

I watch this video a couple of times now, couldn’t figure out what it was about the way you cook. Now I know what it is! You have such a gentle and loving hand, it really makes a difference.

@3:45 "We've got a little piece of the end of the onion..." And she pulls it out. That is love, right there. ♥

A good southern cook well done! Looks delicious 😋

My grandfather taught me to never ever stir the beans. If you’re planning to stir the food, add the beans last and gently fold them in so as not to rupture the skins. He was a really good pioneer country cook who loved the taste and nature of beans. Great looking Mexican Cornbread recipe, I can’t wait to try it, thanks for sharing.

Tried this tonight. Had to let mine cook for about 30 minutes or so in a glass Pyrex dish. Came out well, served with avocado slices. The cornbread is a bit sweet but balanced the meat mixture perfectly.

The spinach is a nice idea and adds some pretty color to it as well! 🙂

I just made mine, oh my God is so good instead of spinach I put cilantro and it gives it more of a Mexican taste. Thank you so much for this recipe five stars

Made this with: Ground Turkey Mild Tomato Salsa 30 less sodium taco seasoning And only put pepper Jack cheese on top Delicious!!! 🎉

Krista I made this meal for my family and now it's their special request. My friend loves it and she even has hers for breakfast with her coffee. Thanks a lot!

It's not gourmand fare, but more families should cook like this instead of going out. Krista, this is an outstanding recipe.

Before I even got the dinner assembled the family was helping themselves to the meat, Rotel, pepper, and beans and eating it with chips. They loved it! And they loved the casserole! Thank you!

This recipe is a good one. It's been around for a long time only known as tamale pie. The cornbread was put on top of the filling along with green olives and cheese mixed in the topping. I love the spin on spinach. Thank you for sharing.

Not even watched the video yet. Already 'liked' it, already saved it, already hungry! This looks sooooo good! 😋

New subscriber here - that recipe is a winner! Learning how to cook meals that fill you up - in one "pot" - is a skill sorely missed there days!!

Yum! My mom made something like this when we were kids (40+ yrs ago) called "tamale pie" 😂 it was one of my favorite meals, it's so fun to see something similar - brings back fun memories and looks so good!

I watched it 10/10/22 I tried it 10/11/22. My family wants me to cook it again!! Thank you

Adding spinach was great idea. I love spinach!! Awesome recipe thanks

I don't know why this video came up in my feed, but I'm glad it did. I'm trying this sometime this week, it looks delicious!

I like that, see how it turned out THIS TIME. A lot of my dishes turn out that way, different every time.

This looks pretty good! I routinely add spinach to some pasta dishes! What I always say about spinach is that if it's good enough for Popeye, it's good enough for me!

Good video, good comfort food. We called this tamale pie growing up. But we didn't add greens, used a scratch corn bread made with buttermilk, green chiles and chopped green onions in corn bread batter with gobs of cheese. Also sliced olives in filling, no beans. It was so good! Glad I came across this, and I will make this for my neighbors tomorrow, using the spinach from my garden, too.

I add chopped spinach to a lot of things that I cook. The family thinks it’s parsley since I cut it up into small pieces. I agree about the added nutrients.

Krista this is a great meal. I will definitely be making this. I look forward to more of your recipes because I am a one pot meal person. My grandchildren are gonna love this for the holidays. Thanks for sharing.

Krista my family, friends and especially my grandchildren absolutely love this dish. I have made it several times and they are requesting it again. I love it with a cup of coffee. Good way to get some vegetables in the kids. I can't thank you enough for this recipe. It's my top ten in my recipe box.

Here in Mexico we make something similar called _pastel de maíz._ It does not rely on quite as many commercially processed ingredients - and Cheddar cheese is very hard to find here - but it's a great way to use up any leftover _guisado_ as the filling.

I made this & I put spinach in it too. It was delicious! The whole family loved it! Thank you for sharing 😃

I've learned that when my wife is cooking that I stay the heck out of the kitchen. I don't even go get a glass of water. But I make sure that I eat faster than everybody else which I actually don't like to do but the purpose is that I can get up and clean the kitchen right away. Trust me, it pays dividends down the road.

I made empanadas recently, and the meat mix you made is similar to one i saw and used, except it was chicken. Your recipe is next on my list. The base meat mix is easily adjustable for flavors and other ideas for things. Thanks, cant wait to make this.

Keep up the great videos of your food ! You have a great pace while demonstrating your recipes and You don’t take all day to show it . Plus the manner in which you speak is very pleasant to listen to ! Again great job!

I know this as Tamale Pie You can make the cornbread by scratch if you don’t like the sweetness of Jiffy

I imagine it would be tasty with sausage instead of beef. Or even ham or chicken. Wow thanks for the ideas. I like to make a breakfast casserole that includes leftovers.

Very interesting, thank you. Usually I serve plain cornbread on the side with chili or pinto beans. Cheers from Southern Virginia!

I made this recipe tonight and it was real tasty! My wife doesn't like tamale pie but she really enjoyed this for dinner.

Thank's for your recipe . Of the stuffed Mexican cornbread . Looks so delicious . And a quick meal . Have a great weekend .

I have been making a dish similar to this for about 30 years. But I use jalapeno pepper and onion. 2 packages of unsweetened cornbread mix. One can of cream style corn and 2/3 cup milk. I add the cheese to the cornbread batter. Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes. That gives suffecient time for the ground meat to become tender. I usually make a pot of pinto beans to go with it. This cornbread is also delicious with warm enchilada sauce poured over the top.

I’ve never had this recipe exactly, but this is the kind of food I grew up eating. It looks so good. Thanks for sharing this creation.

Hey, Krista! I tried this recipe for my family and we didn't care for the sweetness of the cornbread. BUT! I made it yesterday with a different cornbread mix (Marie Callenders) and it was just right, in fact, perfect. I took it to my BFF picnic and we gobbled it up. This one is a keeper! Thank you so much. We will make it often 💋

I used this as inspiration for yesterday's dinner. We are vegetarian so I used more of the beans and vegetables as well as some Impossible Burger to make the filling. I also added some Chipotle pepper powder to the mix and chopped some canned jalepenos to the cornbread. The bottom crust seemed to take forver to cook, but it was well worth the wait! I made ours in an.8×8 pan and made 4 smaller helpings for the freezer. This is definitely a keeper! Thanks.

I like additional spice so I added about 1/2 cup of drained, pickled jalapeno peppers to the meat mixture just prior to placing it on the cornbread. So good. Using this to food prep for work lunches for the week.

No need to sauté the onions and peppers beforehand; just cook them with the hamburger meat. Plus I drain the grease off mine before adding the taco mix. You can also use refried beans mixed into the burger. Great addition with the spinach. Your recipe is awesome as is, just commenting for other folks who might want to spin it a little. Love this dish!

We make this, too & call it Tamale Pie. Like you, I add spinach & any other healthy veggies I have in the fridge along with jalapeno & pablano peppers. It's a definite easy, quick meal & a kid pleaser.

I like how you added spinach to use it up. I’ve actually chopped up spinach fairly small and mixed it in tuna salad when I needed to use it up. You can’t taste it and it adds some pretty color and nutrients to the salad.

Absolutely delicious! Easy to make. Would definitely make again!

I've been working on a longterm food storage for our family. This means I now have more dehydrated foods to incorporate into recipes. I've really grown to luv dehydrated Jalapeños and Green Chile (milder). They still pack lots of flavor. Also, home bottled Pinto beans and garden tomatoes. Tex-Mex food is so versatile and I think it's all packed with nutrients.

I watched it today and made it today. Only had 3 boxes of cornbread. I used about 3 pounds of ground beef. I had a little extra meat filling so I served a scoop of the meat on their plate. I'm carnivore, I can't eat any of it. If my picky husband eats it anyone will😂. It looks delicious! Turned out great! Thanks. I wish I could post a picture.

I know several variations of this recipe and it can be made with left overs as well. Always turns out great!

WITH HUNDREDS OF VARIATIONS POSSIBLE, my leftover chili was phenomenal. Tks!

I LOVE THIS ! I LEARNED A COUPLE EXTRA INGREDIENTS TODAY ! THANK YOU ! NOW I GOTTA GO MAKE SOME FOR DINNER 🍽

She made a classic tamale pie, outstanding.... 👍😎

Like the way you put things together in your videos and instructions are very clear. Thanks.

Can't wait to try this for our Wed night potlucks. It would be nice if you added the oven temp and time at the top of the recipe to make it easier to write down. Thanks so much

Krista, after listening closely to you and watching, we made Mexican Cornbread. Two of us had it two days. It is delicious. We will be making it again. Thank you for sharing with us. We used cream corn and will use whole kernel next time. We also used ground turkey because we don't eat beef.

Looks yummy ,I'm definitely trying this recipe!!

Terrific recipe! I just made our second pan to utilize the left over beans & corn from the first time I made this a week ago. The first pan provided 3 meals for me and my husband, and no doubt this batch will do the same. I appreciate that the next two meals will be a quick heat up in the microwave, and no cooking on my next few work days. This is a tweak-able dish, and next time I'll try subbing kidney beans in place of the black beans. I omitted the bell pepper as I didn't have it on hand, and we still love it! I'm glad your video passed through my feed. Bless you!

I made this just for 2 people I used 1 box of jiffy mix put it in a 8x8 pan. 4 boxes of jiffy mix just seems to much corn bread for 1 lb of hamburger meat for 9x13 . Maybe I will try it when I have someone over for dinner. Tks for recipe 😋 mine is still cooking sure it will be good 👍 😋

WOW!!!. That's a lot of ingredients in one dish!!....,you ll be all set for dinner, everything in one casserole. Thank you for the idea,,I ll try it with less ingredients

This video just popped up on my KZfaq, I'm glad it did because I'm going to use this recipe so that I can have not only for a good supper but something I can take to work and eat also

They sounded really yummy gonna give it a try I may change it a little bit of this and that but it’ll be basically how you put it together thank you so much my dear friend for so much great information hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie

This was a suggested video, from you tube. Normally I ignore them but your thumbnail hooked me and I watched the entire video. This looks Yummy! I can't have Bell peppers so when I make it, tomorrow night, I am going to use Hatch chile peppers instead. I cannot wait to surprise my hubby with this. Thank you!

Also was suggested today. I have yet to try it,but am excited to. Also,easy meals are great when you have kiddos. Love how she still added nutritional value

Been looking for something like this. I'm a Bachelor so I might just try it with the Cornbread on top. I get preoccupied and tend to burn the bottom of things. Nice.

Hi 👋 I was looking for a recipe to use left over cornbread when I came across your recipe, made it and it is delicious! My whole family has decided this will be on our weekly menu 🙂 thank you for the recipe.

Omg I am in love with cornbread and anything you can drench in hot sauce and lots of veggies. This is genius.

Oh thank you for opening up your kitchen. That is a great idea and will be done at home too. The boys just love corn bread, both savory and sweetened.

Thank you for this recipe! I made a version last night with what I had on hand, which was Manwich sauce, ground turkey, onions, corn, black beans and cornbread mix (the just add water type). It came out great! I look forward to trying it again sometime with all of the ingredients you used.

This looks great. I love that you added the spinach. Perfect.

Looks DELISH!!!! This would be great to bring to my next holiday covered dish party.

Thank you thank you thank you and thank you!!! I've eaten Mexican stuffed cornbread twice in my whole entire life and I have been looking for recipes for it For years! I've tried to make it from memory of what all was included in it when I ate it. That didn't work out too well. It was good but it wasn't good to me because it wasn't what I was looking for! So thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart for this recipe! I've seen other recipes and they weren't nothing like what I had eaten before! So thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you and God bless you! You are my new Bestest friend! Lol. 🙏😇✌️

It’s never occurred to me to put crust at the bottom of some thing like this. Counting calories, my whole life evidently. I admire your not reshooting the oops on the amount of cornbread you first mixed up. That’s humble and transparent. How refreshing. Thanks so much.

Love, love, love the added fresh spinach! Great job!!!!!!

Thank you so much for sharing this recipe here! I've tried unsuccessfully to make this recipe on my own but never got the correct measurements of dry ingredients vs. wet ingredients. I probably wasn't cooking @ a high enough temperature as well. So, here we are. Finally success. It was absolutely delicious too. Appreciate you.

Going to try this on Saturday, (after I shop for the needed ingredients ) !! "Thank you" for posting ... 😉👍

I live in the South grew up in the North. I grew up eating Jiffy - my husband grew up eating homemade cornbread. He hates Jiffy lol. I now make homemade cornbread and it is great. Think I will try this but make my own cornbread.

Girl thank you so much I am excited to make this it looks so yummy

It sounds and looks delicious. I am going to try that, I like the jiffy mixes, they are good and easy..

What a beautiful bowl it looks like the Pioneer Woman line or Martha Stewart I am definitely going to try this you did really good chef 😊

Delish!!! My family loved this!!! Thanks Krista!!!!

Substitute the green pepper with green chilis, add shredded cheese and mix your own cornbread and serve with just a little sour cream. Most people who say "Hey Y'all" don't make their cornbread as sweet as Jiffy(not that its a bad thing, just a preference)

Holy cow. I came up with a cornbread dish much like this years ago. Its cheap and easy to make. Kids called it Dads Cornbread pie. Lol. However I precook the bottom layer of cornbread in the microwave first. Takes about 5 minutes and that keeps the filling from sinking to the bottom of the cornbread mix.

I that you used ingredients that are not hard to find or cost a lot of money. It looks so good. This will be on my meal prep plan. Thank you for this post.

This was ok. I left out the bell pepper (never heard of putting it in tamale pie). I used frozen yellow and white corn yuk on canned corn. Forget the spinach. Added diced green chilies, sliced black olives , and the black beans (the whole can). It is good with any ground meat or poultry. Taco seasoning and a little ground cumin. Cheese always. Serve with sliced avocado and sour cream. I have been making tamale pie for 65 plus years. It never fails. Jiffy never fails > It is good for many things and can be mixed with bisqick for a great topping.

This looks delicious & easy. I’ll definitely be making this! I have a little gadget called a chop stir that I got on Amazon. It has a 4 way end on it to brown the ground beef & crumble it at the same time. I love mine & highly recommend it.

Just mad this dish. Used pepper Jack. Topped with sour cream. Really love this dish. Recommend. Thanks for the suggestion 😊

I love to cook, professionally I always found good reliable dishwashers where treasures, believe you me. I love how you cook, up front home cooking thats relative quick to make,,,because of your multi tasking time compression, bravo Excellent recipe too

Oh my that looks so wonderful and yummy

I can't wait to try this recipe!

i made this before, except i didnt add the black beans and spinach,, i added home canned pinto beans and like you used pepper jack cheese it turned out great!!

I'd love to come home to this cutie pie after work. She's cute and can cook!!