I’m in love with these savory Bacon and Chive Cornbread Waffles.
In our house, we LOVE waffles. I remember being a little kid and waking up to my dad surprising us with waffles on a Saturday morning. In college, I found a loophole in policy that allowed me to have a waffle iron in my dorm room. Boy did I get popular! One of my dorm hall-mates gifted us with a fancy 4 waffle iron for our wedding, and we have used it almost every Saturday morning since then. We typically make our Saturday morning waffles with Alton Brown’s dry mix I featured as one of My Top 5 Go-To Recipes, but I like to mix it up sometimes, especially when we have breakfast for dinner.
In the last few years, I’ve become obsessed with savory waffles and have been experimenting with waffles at meals other than breakfast. These savory bacon and chive cornbread waffles are the perfect base for your favorite chili, a poached egg, some fried chicken, pot roast, or just some whipped honey butter. The best part is how fast they are to throw together.
Bacon and Chive Cornbread Waffles
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 5
- Total Time: 10
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
A savory waffle with bacon and chives
Ingredients
- *2/3 cup white flour (or gluten-free)
- *1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
- *3 Tbsp granulated sugar
- *1 Tbsp baking powder
- *1/4 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup milk (or non-dairy milk)
- 1/4 cup crumbled bacon
- 2 Tbsp dried chives (4 tbsp fresh)
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar
- *(1 box of Jiffy corn muffin mix may be substituted for the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt.)
Variations (choose 1 addition)
- 3/4 cup shredded sweet or regular potatoes
- 1 (4.5oz) can diced green chilies, drained
- 1/2 can of corn
Instructions
- Combine dry ingredients together in a medium bowl.
- Add in remaining ingredients and stir thoroughly until batter is smooth.
- Prepare as you would normal waffles according to the directions on your waffle iron. (Or make pancakes if you don’t have an iron.)
- Makes 4 large waffles.
Notes
- It may expand a bit more than regular batter, so be conservative when you pour it in the iron.
- Top with chili, fried chicken, pulled pork, a poached egg, pot roast, a burger, or just some warm honey butter or syrup.
I’ve never had a savory waffle before, but I love cornbread and bacon. I also have lots of chive to use from the garden. I am so curious about these, I will be making them soon!
Savory waffles are quickly becoming my favorite! Fresh chives would be amazing in these. I only had freeze dried chives on hand.
chives? I don’t think I ever thought of using them in waffles. But I have also experimented with savoury waffles so probably this combination is not that bad.
I guess you just inspired me to blog my next recipe…
I started out to make a baked potato to go with our pulled pork and ended up with these instead. (No potatoes.) I guess that’s how the fresh chives stayed in the mix. They’re incredibly yummy though. I put them out at a brunch and they disappeared before the regular waffles!
I’ve never tried savory waffles of any kind, but these ones sure sound great! I’m so happy that you shared it with us on The Yuck Stops Here link party this week! Hope to see you again next week with another delicious recipe! HUGS
Savory waffles are where it’s at these days. I recently saw an instagram of a mac and cheese waffle. (I totally have to try them.) Thanks for hosting!
Wow, that looks amazing! I will definitely give this a try…I just need to find a waffle maker! Thanks for sharing at the Say G’Day Saturday linky Party. I’ve pinned your recipe.
Best wishes and hope to see you again for this weekend’s link up.
Natasha in Oz
If you don’t find a waffle iron, it can actually be made into pancakes (or baked in a cake pan like regular cornbread!)
I have a little waffle maker and we don’t use it often enough. I’ve never made waffles with cornmeal! You have my intrigued now! Thanks so much for linking this at The Yuck Stops Here Party. I hope you will join us again next week!
These cornbread waffles are essentially a runny cornbread recipe. You can’t go wrong with cornbread right?
Steph, I just wanted to let you know that I am featuring your bacon chive cornbread waffles as my featured favorite on The Yuck Stops Here which goes live at 8pm EST tonight. Be sure to grab your feature button and link up with anything new you may have this week! Thanks for sharing!!!!
Thank you so much for the feature!
A savory waffle sounds wonderful and I’d love to try making one with cornbread. Pinned. Thanks for sharing on Merry Monday.
Savory waffles are the best. (Plus, you can’t go wrong with bacon!) Thanks for the pin!
These look yummy – we are going to try this recipe tonight, but I have a question – are the variations completely optional or do I need to pick one of them?
Hi Lindsey. Good question, I’m sorry that wasn’t clear! All three additions are completely optional. You don’t need to choose any of them (only the ingredients under the “Ingredients” heading.)
I was trying to explain that if you wanted to mix it up, you didn’t want to have potatoes and green chile and corn and all of the original ingredients too – the waffles would be crazy packed!
Thanks for the response Steph, that helps, and thanks for all the creative recipes!