Recipe: Easy Skillet Tamale Pie — Recipes from The Kitchn

Every year for the Super Bowl, my roommates and I make a big pot of chili and a fresh batch of corn muffins. We eat it for lunch, relax and digest for a few hours, and then go back for seconds at dinnertime. After Thanksgiving, it's quite possibly my favorite food day of the year.

It may come as no surprise then that I think tamale pie is one of the greatest food mash-ups ever created. Instead of baking cornbread separately from cooking chili, the batter gets spread atop a simmering mixture of ground beef, beans, tomatoes, and corn, then transferred to the oven and baked until golden. Needless to say, my Super Bowl meal just got way easier.

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