Cornmeal has been known for its health benefits since ancient times. Nowadays, most housewives underestimate its nutritional qualities and rarely use it for cooking. It is possible to cook a lot of delicacies from it: pancakes and muffins, pancakes and tortillas, casseroles and muffins. Dishes cooked with this flour are light and fluffy. The following are selected recipes made from cornmeal.
This is a tender, tasty, airy, low-fat and very healthy dish.
Bread from this flour is crumbly, friable. It bakes well. Products do not get stale for a long time, while maintaining taste.
Pancakes made from cornmeal are tasty and very healthy, because it contains a large amount of vitamins. The dough is well baked, remaining soft and melting in the middle with a crispy golden crust around the edge.
Corn flour cookies are crumbly and satisfying with a bright yellow color.
Recipes for cornmeal cakes are different. This is a lean version, without the addition of oil. It is recommended to add a little wheat flour for a bunch to make the dough elastic. Most often, thin cakes are baked, but in fact, you can make any thickness as you like.
A healthy, nutritious treat that the whole family will appreciate.
Exquisite, delicious-tasting porridge made from cornmeal - hominy. It's quick and easy to make and requires a minimum of ingredients.
Many people buying this product think about the benefits and harms of cornmeal. Most importantly, food made from flour is low in calories, but at the same time nutritious. This is a good option to unload the body after a feast, as well as for weight loss. Due to the high content of fiber, dishes prepared from this flour normalize the functioning of the intestines, have a good effect on the functioning of the brain and circulatory system.
If you want to improve the color and texture of the skin, eat foods that include this flour for a long time. Its composition improves the condition of teeth and bones, helps to eliminate the inflammatory process in the bladder, normalizes urination and sugar levels, and slows down the aging process.
In addition to useful properties, limitations are known. It should not be eaten after surgery, as it thickens the blood. If a child has a tendency to allergies or diathesis, dishes with cornmeal should not be consumed. If there is a poor appetite and there is a lack of body weight, flour can be harmful, it interferes with weight gain. Contraindicated in exacerbation of gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, if you have a disease of the gallbladder or liver, you should consult a doctor.
Dishes made from cornmeal are softer than those made from rye flour. In the second case, the baking comes out very dense.
The corn composition is distinguished by a beautiful yellow color. Rye flour has a grayish tint and inclusions are present - small particles of grain shells.
Eh, the times are long gone when, with a light suggestion from Nikita Sergeevich (who promised the Americans to show Kuzkin his mother), corn was the queen of the fields. And then corn bread was sold in stores, and there was corn flour - heaps! But no, cornmeal dishes do not take root in our East Slavic cuisine. Meanwhile, corn flour (like cereals) has been and to this day remains a very popular ingredient in the cuisines of different peoples.
Many have heard about the famous Italian polenta or Moldavian hominy, Mexican tortillas or Georgian mchadi. Americans (Southern and Northern) still honor corn, and in Southern Europe it remains in high esteem. And we ... We have nothing to brag about in this regard (except for Soviet-era sweet corn sticks). Therefore, we can only learn the art of cooking dishes from cornmeal, the recipes of which have been inherited by modern people from the ancient Aztecs.
If we are talking about the Aztecs who founded Mexico City, then we will begin to master the recipes for cornmeal dishes from Mexican tortillas. These corn tortillas are delicious both on their own and as the basis of many Mexican dishes. For real tortillas, you need an open fire and a special clay pan. But we can do just fine with them in a regular frying pan.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
Finely chop the margarine with a knife. Sift the flour and add to the margarine, there is also a pinch of salt. Grind margarine with flour into crumbs and, gradually pouring in water, knead the dough. We divide the dough into several parts (according to the number of future cakes), cover with a towel and leave for fifteen minutes. Then we roll out round thin cakes from the dough and fry them on both sides in a dry (without oil!) Hot frying pan. Tortillas are ready! You can eat them instead of bread, or you can go ahead and cook ...
On the basis of tortillas, you can cook tostados - the same flour cakes, but fried in oil. If you put a filling between two tortillas, sprinkle them with cheese and fry them in oil, the result will be a quesadilla. And if the tortilla with the filling is overthrown into a tube, then the dish will already be called a burrito. It's funny. Is not it? But only Mexicans have fun like that. And, for example, in Georgia they cook more “laconic” corn tortillas.
The recipes for mchadi and tortillas are very similar, but they are still different dishes. If you are interested in “feeling the difference”, cook both options and compare.
Ingredients:
Add a piece of butter, a pinch of salt to the sifted flour and, adding water, knead a soft and slightly sticky dough. With wet hands, we form oblong cakes from the dough, which are placed on a preheated pan and baked in the oven. This method of cooking mchadi is closest to baking them in traditional stone ketsi frying pans. But many housewives fry mchadi in a pan in vegetable oil (like ordinary cutlets). These cakes are served with cheese (ideally - with Imereti or Suluguni).
By and large, polenta is a hearty and tasty porridge, which was originally considered food for the poor. But over time, the better-off Italians “saw through” it, and besides, they “ennobled” it. Polenta recipes differ mainly in additives. It is cooked with cheese, vegetables, mushrooms, seafood, minced meat. First, try making polenta with cheese.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
In advance, prepare cheese for polenta (grated) and garlic oil. For the latter, melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the crushed garlic clove in it. For polenta, we take only a thick-bottomed pan. Pour water and milk into a saucepan and boil. Then add the crumbled bread there and, stirring constantly, pour out all the flour. We cook it over low heat, without ceasing to interfere (it is more convenient to do this with a wooden spatula). After cooking polenta for fifteen minutes, add grated cheese to it. Add in small portions, waiting until all the cheese has dissolved in the porridge. At the very end, pour the garlic oil and remove the pan from the heat. Serve with greens.
Are you surprised? No, of course, the master of literary horror films himself did not invent this recipe and did not even publish it anywhere. But in his works, cornbread is very often mentioned. Remember The Green Mile? And the cornbread with which the hero of Tom Hanks treated the black giant? And, for sure, this bread was prepared according to a traditional recipe, which is held in high esteem by all housewives of the southern American states.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
We turn on the oven in advance and place an empty thick-bottomed frying pan in it (let them warm up). In the meantime, pour a tablespoon of flour into a bowl and pour boiling water over it (incomplete glass). Beating the brewed flour with a whisk, add sour milk (kefir, yogurt) and an egg to it. In another bowl, mix the remaining flour, sugar, salt, soda and baking powder and pour it all into the liquid mixture. Knead the dough (with a whisk or fork, but not with a mixer) until all lumps are dissolved.
Take the pan out of the oven and melt the butter in it. Pour the oil into the dough, and grease the entire pan with its remnants. Knead the dough again and pour it into the mold. Bake for twenty to thirty minutes. The readiness of the bread is determined by the golden crust and the moment when it begins to move away from the walls of the pan.
Note:
Spicy additives and toppings (red pepper, saffron, garlic, fried smoked meats, cheese, etc.) are added to the dough just before it is poured into the mold.
In general, cornmeal is considered a dietary and healthy product. No wonder the recipes from it are so “multinational”. So do not pass by when you see a bag of cornmeal on the supermarket counter. Try yourself in the role of a researcher of the culture of the ancient Aztecs, who not only loved corn, but also revered it, calling it their golden sun.
How should you make cornmeal cookies? The recipes for this unusual dessert will be presented in this article.
Corn flour cookies, the recipes of which all housewives should know, turn out to be no less tasty and nutritious than a wheat product dessert. Moreover, such a delicacy very often saves those who are not allowed to eat traditional pastries. After all, today there are a large number of people who have a strong allergic reaction to wheat flour. Therefore, recipes for such pastries should be kept in your cookbook.
Few people know, but corn flour is much healthier than wheat flour. According to experts, it is a good remedy for anemia. In addition, this product stimulates bile secretion and intestinal motility, and also has pronounced diuretic properties.
It is able to remove all excess fat accumulation from the body, strengthen teeth and bone tissues, and increase the elasticity of blood vessels. Also, dishes using this product serve as excellent food for people suffering from tuberculosis or gastric disorders.
So how do you make cornmeal cookies? Recipes for such baking may require the use of different products. If you are allergic to wheat, we recommend purchasing the following ingredients:
How should you make cornmeal cookies? The recipes for this delicacy require intensive kneading of the base. Pour sugar into a deep bowl and break an egg. After whipping the components with a mixer, sour cream is added to them.
After mixing the products again, all the cornmeal and baking powder are laid out in the same bowl.
After kneading the dough, it is wrapped in cling film and sent to the refrigerator for ¼ hours.
How are cornmeal cookies formed correctly? Recipes for the baking in question may require the use of different devices.
From the finished corn dough, pinch off small pieces, which are subsequently rolled into balls and flattened a little in the palms. Having received a neat semi-finished product, it is dipped in granulated sugar on one side. Next, the product is laid out on a baking sheet, sprinkled part up.
Having made all the semi-finished products in the same way, they are sent to a preheated oven. Bake corn dessert should be at 180 degrees for about 18-22 minutes (until browning).
Eat made from cornmeal, it is better when hot. It is laid out on a beautiful plate, and then served to guests along with tea.
If you adhere to Great Lent or limit yourself to the consumption of animal products, then the recipe in question is best for you.
So, in order to independently make lean cookies using cornmeal, you must have:
It should immediately be noted that for those people who have the strongest dessert in question, it will not work. This is due to the fact that the mentioned prohibited product is added to the dough.
So, to knead the base for homemade lean cookies, you need to mix both types of flour in a plate. Next, you need to add sugar to them. After that, vegetable oil and water should be combined in a separate container. In the future, they need to lay out table soda, quenched with natural vinegar.
Intensively mixing all the components, you get a fairly dense dough. To make it "reach", it is left under a napkin for 10-12 minutes.
After preparing the base, it is sprinkled with a mixture of corn and wheat flour, and then rolled into a layer up to 5 mm thick. Next, the resulting sheet is cut into circles using the neck of an ordinary glass or glass.
Sprinkling the upper part of the semi-finished products with roasted and crushed peanuts, they are laid out on a sheet with baking paper. In this form, the products are sent to the oven. At 180 degrees, homemade cookies are baked for about 20 minutes.
Now you know how cornmeal is used in cooking. it turns out very tasty and tender) were described in detail above. Using them, you are sure to please all members of your family.
Usually the idea for cookies comes when there is some leftover flour left. With cornmeal, this occurs much more frequently. And this is a very good idea! And most importantly - incredibly fast implementation.
This product contains all the immense benefits of corn itself. Beautiful color, special structure and unique taste - the perfect flour for baking. And it does not contain gluten, which has become a real threat not only for those who want to lose weight. Cookies from it are much healthier and safer for children in terms of allergies.
This product has a much longer shelf life. That is, the cookies remain crisp and fresh for a long time, as if they had just been taken out of the oven. It retains its taste qualities well and goes well with various additives: both sweet and unsweetened.
Shredded corn quickly saturates the body, bringing with it a lot of micro and macro elements, vitamins, and minerals. It contains a lot of vegetable protein. At the same time, it has a lower calorie content than wheat, so it is recommended by nutritionists. In addition, the high fiber content has the best effect on bowel function.
Almost all pastries from this flour are crumbly. However, it may not require eggs or butter. After all, flour is also used in cosmetology, which once again proves its usefulness and versatility.
Easy gluten free sweets recipe
How to make gluten free cornmeal cookies:
Time - 1 hour 15 minutes.
Calorie content - 447 kcal / 100 g.
Cooking:
Time - 1 hour 25 minutes.
Calorie content - 408 kcal / 100 g.
Cooking process:
Time - 25 min.
Calorie content - 363 kcal / 100 g.
How to cook:
Time - 30 min.
Calorie content - 369 kcal / 100 g.
How to make lean cornmeal cookies without eggs:
Time - 35 min.
Calorie content - 209 kcal / 100 g.
Cooking method:
The recipes given today are as simple as possible. This makes it possible to supplement them with as many different ingredients as possible. For example, you can add dried fruits (dried apricots, raisins, prunes), candied fruits, nuts, seeds. You can even add gummy bears.
In addition, you can use unsweetened ingredients. It can be olives or pieces of crispy bacon. Of course, then you need to reduce the amount of sugar. You can add various spices: nutmeg, various herbs, mix in ginger, cinnamon, coconut, chocolate drops, even chili! It just depends on your own preferences.
The versatility and special taste of cornmeal are only a small part of its advantages. Cookies from it always turn out crispy and at the same time tender. Making it for tea in the evening is a matter of a few minutes!
*** Gluten is a plant protein found in some grains. Approximately 1% of people on the planet suffer from a congenital intolerance to this substance or celiac disease.
Patients with celiac disease are forced to follow a lifelong gluten-free diet.
The following foods should disappear from the diet forever:
Wheat, rye, barley, oats and their derivatives: bread, cereals, starch, flour, pasta, kvass and so on….
The most commonly used flours and products for gluten-free baking are:
Products for 8 cookies with a diameter of 7.5 cm
*** Note: not corn grits (polenta) is used for baking, but corn flour!
jam or jam 8 tbsp
*** Remember, in cooking you can taste and create to your taste, but baking requires strict weights and measurements, otherwise you risk getting a completely different product!
Cookies made from cornmeal - preparation method
Heat the oven to 200°.
Prepare baking pans - these can be any muffin molds.
Or like this with a notch -
*** You'll find out later why these are the best!
If the molds do not have a non-stick coating, then you need to grease them with oil.
Dough cook
Sift flour.
Mix dry ingredients: flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt.
Pour in milk and add butter.
Bring the mixture to a boil.
Stirring all the time, cook over low heat for 7 minutes.
Cool down.
Mix in the eggs.
Add baking powder.
Mix.
BAKING cornmeal cookies
Remove the fire in the stove to 180 °.
A. If you bake in muffin cups, then
Put 1 tbsp. test
1 tbsp thick jam, or jam, or whole berries from jam
Top 1 tbsp. test
*** There may be such problems: when baking - if the jam is liquid - it may sink to the bottom of the molds.
B. If you bake in molds with notches (as in the photo) - then
Put 2 tbsp. Testa.
Bake 25 minutes.
Make a test with a splinter.
Remove cookies from oven and leave for 5 minutes.
Remove cookies from molds and cool on a wire rack.
INNINGS
If you baked in molds with recesses, then
After the cookies have cooled, you can fill the recesses with jam, jam berries, jam, any cream ... Etc.
*** It all depends on whether you have to follow a diet.
… so find your own way!
These corn flour cookies with filling are soaked in jam and become very juicy and tender!
By the way, these cookies are not very sweet.
Medical nutrition offers delicious and interesting recipes! Diet and diet recipes - for you!
*** And remember: diet food is health food!
You should not eat on diets without first consulting with your doctor!
Therapeutic nutrition will not replace therapeutic measures, but will contribute to recovery!
Very simple, tasty and light cottage cheese cake for tea.
Ingredients:
Curd 2%: 240 g
Cottage cheese soft 0%: 150 g.
Egg: 2 pcs.
Corn flour + rice flour: 70 g + 50 g
Butter: 15 g.
Vanillin: 2 g
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Stevia: to taste
Delicious and delicate dietary lemon cake, with a pleasant citrus taste and aroma.
Ingredients:
Corn flour: 50 g.
Oat flour: 70 g
Butter: 15 g.
Egg: 3 pcs. + 1 egg white
Ricotta: 250 g
Cottage cheese soft 5%: 200 g.
Lemon zest: 2 tsp
Lemon juice: 1-2 tbsp
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Stevia: to taste
The history of the appearance of this cake in my kitchen is very prosaic - there was a large tray with fresh mint in the refrigerator, and I absolutely did not know what to do with it. I bought it to make tea and maybe decorate a couple of dishes, but for some reason mint is sold in large trays, and I can’t drink so much tea, with all my desire!) I had to improvise. And by the way, I really liked the result - an unusual, juicy, tasty, fragrant and minty cupcake. Can be made into muffins.
Delicious, fragrant diet apple cake with raisins is a great addition to tea or coffee. I eat for breakfast and snacks. And maybe for dinner. 🙂
Ingredients:
Rice flour (you can c / o wheat): 100 g.
Corn flour: 100 g
Egg: 2 pcs.
Homemade yogurt (or kefir): 200 ml.
Curd 2%: 60 g
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Apples: 200 g
Raisins: 35 g
Stevia: to taste
Today we have healthy corn pancakes for breakfast with different fillings for every taste: with suluguni cheese, homemade yogurt, date jam and honey. Delicious and nutritious breakfast.
Ingredients:
Corn flour: 80 g.
Corn starch: 30 g
Milk 0.5%: 200 ml.
Olive oil: 5 ml.
Egg: 2 pcs.
Salt: a pinch
Boiling water: how much will it take (≈200 ml.)
Another healthy and tasty muffins for breakfast, this time - lemon with candied fruit.
From the number of ingredients below, I got 6 muffins. The calorie content of one muffin is 115 kcal.
I like muffins for breakfast so much - it's very tasty and convenient. In addition, there are always a few things left for a snack. And my daughter just loves them. And since all my muffins are not only very tasty, but also very healthy, I don’t worry at all that the child eats “buns”. For example, today we have diet carrot muffins with raisins and cherry jam for breakfast.
From the number of ingredients indicated below, I got 8 muffins. The average calorie content of one muffin is 85 kcal.
A very simple and quick version of Italian focaccia: diet focaccia with tomatoes and rosemary. It is easy to prepare, it turns out very tasty and healthy. Such pastries can be for children. The basis is cottage cheese, which does not taste at all, and pastries are much healthier and less caloric.
Millefeuille is a very popular French pastry, which literally means “thousand petals” because it is traditionally made from puff pastry. Diet millefeuille with raspberries may not consist of a thousand petals, but nevertheless, the dessert turned out to be unusually tender and tasty. And, most importantly, unlike its French counterpart, it is absolutely healthy and many times less high-calorie.
The season of raspberries begins, which means we need to urgently cook something with it. We will cook a very light, insanely delicious diet pie with raspberries. With fresh raspberries to preserve all their vitamins and beneficial properties.
homemade crackers
Make crunchy, delicious, golden crackers. This is delicious!
Garlic bread
Garlic bread is a great addition to a plate of borscht!
polenta ramming
The famous Italian polenta - please the family with such porridge!
Fried bream
Do you love fish? Prepare delicious, ruddy bream!
Xylitol cake
Cook cakes with xylitol - delicious and much healthier than with sugar!
Pelamushi
Georgian dessert is something worth trying!
cheese fondue
Exquisite cheese fondue recipe straight from Switzerland!
Roasted mullet
Grilled mullet is perfect for any table.
Recipes for cornmeal dishes were created by our great-grandmothers. They knew that it was made from fine grinding or coarse. What to eat? It is up to the gourmet to decide, but everyone is obliged to cook interesting pastries at home. From a coarser grinding, a crumbly, granular flour is obtained. As for the second type, bread rises much better. All national cuisines have features and subtleties in the preparation of products from this product. Hominy or Mexican flatbread, which is traditionally served to tourists. Today, delicious dishes made from this type of flour are found everywhere, as the demand for it has grown incredibly. Chips are a delicacy that is quite popular from Europe to America. Fishermen manage to catch fish on them and the catch is always pleasing. And in Africa, they prepare a specific African hardened ugali. Contains up to 330 calories, especially recommended for athletes and those who follow the figure.
sweet cornmeal bread
Corn flour a very useful product, although we are used to baking from wheat flour, you can also bake from corn flour. There is a fairly large number corn flour recipes.
We will introduce you to corn flour recipes. With them, you can easily diversify your family's menu and your family will be able to try something completely new for them. This pastry is worth trying to cook at home, especially since cornmeal is on sale in any large supermarket and it is quite affordable.
Casserole with cottage cheese and cornmeal
It would seem that nothing new, another cottage cheese casserole. In fact, this is how it is, but neither wheat flour nor semolina is included here, they are replaced by corn flour.
Cornmeal gives the casserole a whole new taste and smell. And this casserole is more useful than the classic one. And the yellowish color that corn will give is very popular with children.
To prepare the casserole you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Enjoy your meal!
Cornbread with ginger and lemon
Simply incredibly delicious cookies with an oriental touch. If you love the ginger-lemon taste, then this cookie will delight you, you will get a lot of pleasure from it.
The recipe for this cookie was brought by friends from a vacation in Turkey, and since then all our friends and relatives have been preparing it.
To make Ginger Lemon Corn Cookies you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Bon appetit!
Cornmeal Cookies
Unusual cornmeal biscuits, will bring a novelty to your sweet homemade pastries. These cookies are very tasty and crunchy.
Cookies are great with tea or a glass of milk. So it is well suited for a snack for children on a walk, it is quite nutritious and just perfect for such snacks.
To make cornmeal cookies you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Your cookies are completely ready!
Corn flour muffins
Delicious cornmeal muffins, perfect for family tea drinking or serving to guests. Blackcurrant in the dough gives just an incredible aroma and a pleasant aftertaste. I often cook these pastries for children, they love them very much and take them with them for walks.
To make cornmeal muffins you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Your muffins are ready!
Corn pie in a slow cooker
Increasingly, we began to cook and bake in a slow cooker. And this cake is cooked in it. The cornmeal makes it very tasty. This pie is very easy and very quick to make. It is quite possible to serve it on the table to guests on a holiday.
Let's start cooking:
Your pie is ready to serve!
Corn pies with berries
In this recipe, not one large pie is prepared, but 3-4 small pies. They turn out just incredibly tasty, and the berries soaking it with their juice make it even tastier. It is better to make such pies in the summer during the season of berries.
To make corn pies you will need:
For syrup:
Let's start cooking:
Your pies are ready!
Corn pie with poppy seeds and pears in a slow cooker
This delicious cake is worth serving on the festive table. Poppy and pear make it just special and incredibly tasty. It is prepared in a slow cooker, which makes it very easy to prepare.
Corn pie goes well with tea, milk or a cup of aromatic coffee. Be sure to try to cook it, you will love it forever.
To make this pie you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Your pie is completely ready!
Shortbread corn biscuits
These cookies are prepared very quickly and will take almost no time. It turns out very crumbly and tasty. These cookies are just the perfect accompaniment to tea. Of course, it is difficult to take them with you for a walk, they crumble very easily.
To make cookies you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Bon appetit!
Corn Pie with Pear and Orange
Delicious cake will perfectly diversify your tea drinking. Even a small piece of such a pie will bring a lot of pleasure. Our family loved it from the first bite and now we cook it all the time. It can be easily prepared even for a holiday to serve to guests.
To make Pear and Orange Corn Pie, you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Your pie is ready to serve!
Crispy corn biscuits
Very tasty and crunchy biscuit goes well with any drink. Children eat such cookies simply on both cheeks. The grains of seeds in the dough make it even more attractive to children, who love both products.
To make cornbread you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Bon appetit!
Corn biscuits with dried cranberries
If you love cranberries, you will love these cookies. The cookies turn out to be very tasty and crumbly, and the cranberry gives it a slight sourness. Making it even tastier and more palatable. It goes great with tea or milk.
To make cranberry cornbread you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Bon appetit!
Corn pie "Delight"
Such a corn pie will make any tea party bright and tasty. Its delicate and pleasant taste is simply irresistible. Chocolate icing on top makes it simply magically delicious and such a cake can easily replace a cake.
To make corn pie you will need:
For the pie:
For glaze:
Let's start cooking:
You can serve your cake either warm or completely chilled.
Bon appetit!
Corn pie with cottage cheese
The most delicious and tender cornmeal cake you could ever taste. This recipe was given to me by a confectioner, he cooks it in the restaurant where he works and he stands there, I’ll tell you, it’s pretty much not like a piece of an ordinary pie. You can cook it just at home and please your family with a new yummy.
To make corn pie you will need:
Let's start cooking:
Bon appetit!