Irina Kamshilina
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A cereal such as corn is of great industrial and nutritional importance. Flour from it can be found in almost any supermarket. The most important advantage of this cereal is its higher yield compared to traditional grain crops: wheat and rye. Corn flour - you can use this product to prepare dishes for both a family dinner and a holiday table; all you have to do is choose the appropriate recipe for cookies or other delicacies.
This valuable product is made from different varieties of corn. Its composition is rich in B vitamins, potassium, iron, magnesium, calcium. In addition, this product made from corn grains contains starch, which is easily absorbed by the body. This product is known for its dietary properties, i.e. it will help in losing weight. Compared to wheat, corn is considered a gluten-free crop.
As for harm, this product promotes blood thickening and prevents weight gain, which is why it can harm people who are underweight. In addition, baked goods made from corn flour and the product itself can cause excessive bile secretion and contribute to the deterioration of the diseased liver. In addition, such a product is poorer in nutritional value than its wheat counterpart.
The described product has a pleasant yellow color and a sweetish taste. The calorie content of corn products (dietary) is 330 kcal per 100 g. Using a product of this type, you can prepare, for example, porridge, corn flakes or some dessert for tea or coffee. Fine grinding is widely used for delicate and fluffy culinary products, and coarse grinding can be used to bake liver or homemade bread. The latter is very easy to prepare:
Before making cornmeal dough, choose a suitable baking option that your whole family and guests will enjoy. For example, you can use it to make cheesecake, cheese buns, Mexican flatbread, kefir pie, cupcake, etc. Carbohydrate-rich corn baked goods make a great choice for gluten-free cookies, a great breakfast item.
If you decide to treat your family and friends with a dietary dish with the taste of corn, pay attention to mamaliga in Abkhazian, Moldavian and other options. In addition, you can make summer vegetable cutlets, for the preparation of which you will need carrots and cheese. An excellent option would be dietary kefir pancakes, Italian polenta, which is essentially porridge, vegetable steak, etc.
Before answering the question of how to cook dishes from corn flour (often called maize flour), choose the appropriate step-by-step recipe. Pancakes, pancakes, and cookies made from this healthy dietary product are very popular. There are many recipes for baking, especially all kinds of pies. If you don’t know what to choose, especially if you urgently need to prepare lunch or dinner, then pay attention to the following options:
Even a young housewife can prepare bread from corn, which contains vitamins and minerals necessary for the human body, at home. At the same time, it is best to combine such flour with wheat flour, because... it does not contain gluten, so baking from corn products in their pure form with yeast, without any additives, is not very successful. In this regard, for cooking you will have to add other types of flour.
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When planning to make something delicious, pay attention to the cake, which can be a great addition even to the holiday table. The light “Violet” cake without puff pastries and rich cream can please anyone. To answer the question of how to prepare such a confectionery masterpiece, you need to purchase the necessary products and be patient. But the result will exceed all expectations.
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Delicious gluten-free cookies can replace almost any breakfast. For many, recipes for baking from corn products are still perceived as a bit of a novelty, but in fact, people began to use this product for making cookies, bread and tortillas for a very long time. Corn played an important role in the history of America; its homeland is considered to be the territory of modern Mexico.
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What do you need to make delicious pies using corn raw materials? It is necessary to prepare a suitable filling. An excellent option would be eggs with cabbage. The finished products will turn out not only satisfying, but also very nutritious, because... Corn grains are rich in minerals, vitamins and amino acids. You can snack on these pies during any meal.
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Along with various Mexican dishes, tortillas are also very popular, the recipe for which anyone can master. In Mexico, Tortillas is the national bread, which can be used to prepare dishes such as tacos, enchiladas, burritos, etc. Not only corn, but also wheat products can be used for tortillas.
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This healthy and tasty Romanian and Moldavian dish is rolled into balls or cut into pieces before eating. It is also popular among some Caucasian peoples. They eat mamalyga with melted cracklings, grated cheese, butter and sour cream. It is served as a side dish with fish or meat. To learn how to make delicious hominy, check out the ingredients and cooking method below.
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Corn flour is great for pancakes, which will differ slightly in taste from their wheat counterparts. The finished baked goods will have a pleasant aroma and taste. While preparing the pancake batter, you can experiment by adding a pinch of cinnamon or vanilla. It is advisable to consume them warm immediately after cooking. Serve them with jam, honey, condensed milk or sour cream.
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Beneficial properties and harm of corn flour - recipes with photos
Each of us often comes across corn flour on store shelves, but, unfortunately, not everyone knows what can be made from it, and yet there are a huge number of baking recipes.
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Pour well warm drinking water into a bowl with corn flour, mix, cover with a lid and set everything aside for about 35-40 minutes. Now add a chicken egg into this bowl, sift the wheat flour here, sprinkle everything with salt and knead a thick dough. We make a sausage out of it and cut it into not very large circles, which we then flatten a little and get neat flat cakes. Coat the bottom of a heated Teflon frying pan generously with a piece of good, fresh lard. Place the cakes here and, reducing the heat to a minimum, bake them under a closed lid, not forgetting to turn them over when a golden crust forms.
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Melt the butter together with margarine in the microwave and add it to a container with eggs, which we first grind (until white) with granulated sugar. Whisk everything together and pour it into a bowl with two types of flour and potato starch combined together. We start kneading the dough and get an elastic, smooth lump at the end. We roll it out thinly with a wooden rolling pin and, using special molds, press the cookies, which we then move onto a baking sheet covered with parchment. We bake these wonderful cookies in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for no more than 25 minutes.
Cornmeal is a staple food in America. It is used for making baked goods and drinks. Flour is produced by grinding dried corn kernels. Depending on the type of corn, it may taste different. Whole grain corn flour helps achieve weight loss.
Corn is rich in vitamins C, B1 and B5, folic acid, dietary fiber, phosphorus, and manganese. Corn products are flours and grains rich in antioxidants, especially luten.
Researchers from Japan have found that anthocyanins contained in corn flour effectively fight the accumulation of fat cells. Therefore, it can be used as a prophylaxis for weight loss. Anthocyanins affect the function of fat cells and stabilize metabolic syndrome.
The dietary fiber in cornmeal is beneficial overall. They improve bowel function, relieve constipation, lower cholesterol, regulate blood sugar and help reduce weight.
The fiber found in corn flour prevents the consumption of excess foods and helps reduce weight due to the resulting feeling of fullness. In addition, due to its high fiber content, corn dishes have fewer calories than the same amount of other foods. 200 g of corn flour contains about 10 g of fiber. Therefore, it makes sense to include corn in your diet to suppress hunger and lose weight.
Corn contains a special type of carbohydrate called starch. Which, unlike ordinary ones, do not turn into fat and are not digested in the small intestine, but are fermented in the large intestine. During this process, fatty acids block the body's ability to . At the same time, he begins to consume the fats consumed with food, and the person’s weight decreases.
Cornmeal dishes may be harmful to people with high blood clotting rates. At the same time, the use of products made from this product should be kept to a minimum. Also, those who have been diagnosed with gastrointestinal diseases should not include large amounts of cornmeal dishes in their diet. There may be cases where pesticides used on corn may cause an allergic reaction.
To ensure that the fat you eat with food does not harm your figure, you need to include dishes made from corn flour in your diet. Use it when baking muffins, bread, pancakes. It can be used to coat the bottom of a baking sheet to prevent food from burning. Mix seasonings with cornmeal to coat baked fish or meat chops.
It is light and does not contain many calories. You can prepare it in half an hour. Ingredients for this cake:
This bread is popular in Chile. To prepare it you need:
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Corn flour is a dietary product; it contains a large amount of protein and starch, which are easily and quickly absorbed by the body. The components that make up the flour can promote better bile secretion, reduce cholesterol and have a beneficial effect on the production of red blood cells.
Thanks to the properties listed above, you can not be afraid to use corn flour for making baked goods and desserts, even for small children. Therefore, every housewife should have in her arsenal a small collection of recipes for dishes that can be prepared using this flour.
They turn out unusually bright and fragrant.
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Pancakes are easy to prepare; this dish is perfect for breakfast. First you need to mix eggs, sugar and salt, then kefir is added to this mixture.
You need to add corn and wheat flour and baking powder to the mixture. To avoid lumps, you should mix everything thoroughly.
You need to fry the pancakes in a frying pan greased with vegetable oil. A golden color will indicate that the dish is fully prepared.
You can serve cornmeal pancakes with jam, honey, and sour cream.
It's worth pampering your household.
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150 grams corn flour
50 grams each of walnuts, almonds, peanuts, raisins
50 grams of sugar
½ teaspoon baking powder
2 tbsp. tablespoons vegetable or olive oil
2 tbsp. spoons of water
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You need to chop the nuts, chop the raisins finely, you can add figs, dried apricots, etc. to the mixture to taste.
Corn flour, sugar, baking powder, and water are also added here. From the prepared dough you need to form several pieces of small cookies and place them on a baking sheet.
At a temperature of 190°C, such products are baked for only 20-25 minutes. Milk or tea with ginger will perfectly complement this delicious and healthy dessert.
Instead of nuts, you can add flax or sesame seeds to the cookie dough, replace sugar with honey, and also add a handful of oatmeal and candied fruits. The result is an equally delicious dessert that is perfect for a children's holiday table.
Thanks to such simple dishes you can significantly diversify your family's diet. In addition, dishes made from corn flour have excellent nutritional properties and contain a large amount of substances beneficial to the body.
Eh, long gone are the days when, at the easy suggestion of Nikita Sergeevich (who promised to show Kuzkin’s mother to the Americans), corn was the queen of the fields. And then corn bread was sold in stores, and there was heaps of corn flour! But no, dishes made from corn flour do not take root in our East Slavic cuisine. Meanwhile, corn flour (like grits) was and to this day remains a very popular ingredient in the cuisines of different nations.
Many have heard about the famous Italian polenta or Moldavian mamalyga, Mexican tortillas or Georgian mchadi. Americans (Southern and Northern) still revere corn, and in Southern Europe it remains held in high esteem. And we... We have nothing special to boast about in this regard (except for sweet corn sticks from Soviet times). Therefore, we can only learn the art of preparing dishes from corn flour, the recipes of which were inherited by modern people from the ancient Aztecs.
Since we are talking about the Aztecs who founded Mexico City, we will begin to master recipes for dishes made from corn flour and Mexican tortillas. These corn tortillas are delicious on their own and as a base for many Mexican dishes. For real tortillas you need an open fire and a special clay frying pan. But we can handle them just fine in a regular frying pan.
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Finely chop the margarine with a knife. Sift the flour and add to the margarine, along with a pinch of salt. Grind the margarine and flour into crumbs and, gradually adding water, knead the dough. Divide the dough into several parts (according to the number of future flat cakes), cover with a towel and leave for about fifteen minutes. Then roll out the dough into round thin flat cakes and fry them on both sides in a dry (no oil!) hot frying pan. Tortillas are ready! You can eat them instead of bread, or you can go further and cook...
Based on tortillas, you can make tostados - the same flour tortillas, but fried in oil. If you put the filling between two tortillas, sprinkle them with cheese and fry them in oil, the result is a quesadilla. And if the tortilla with filling is rolled 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 prepare more “laconic” corn cakes.
The recipes for mchadi and tortillas are very similar, but they are still different dishes. If you are interested in “feeling the difference,” prepare both options and compare.
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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 the dough into oblong cakes, which we place in a heated frying pan and bake in the oven. This method of preparing mchadi is closest to baking it in traditional stone frying pans “ketsi”. But many housewives fry mchadi in a frying pan in vegetable oil (like regular cutlets). These flatbreads are served with cheese (ideally Imeretian or Suluguni).
By and large, polenta is a hearty and tasty porridge that was originally considered food for the poor. But over time, wealthier Italians also “saw through” her, and besides, they “ennobled” her. Polenta recipes differ mainly in additives. It is prepared with cheese, vegetables, mushrooms, seafood, and minced meat. First, try making polenta with cheese.
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Prepare the cheese (by grating) and garlic butter in advance for the polenta. For the last one, melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the crushed garlic clove in it. For polenta, use only a thick-bottomed pan. Pour water and milk into a saucepan and boil. Then add the crumbled bread there and, stirring constantly, pour in all the flour. Cook it over low heat, constantly stirring (it’s more convenient to do this with a wooden spatula). After cooking the polenta for about 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 in 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 come up with this recipe and did not even publish it anywhere. But cornbread is mentioned very often in his works. Remember The Green Mile? And the cornbread that Tom Hanks' character fed 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.
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Turn on the oven in advance and place an empty thick-bottomed frying pan in it (let it warm up). Meanwhile, pour a tablespoon of flour into a bowl and pour boiling water over it (not a full glass). Whisk the brewed flour and add sour milk (kefir, yogurt) and an egg. In another bowl, mix the remaining flour, sugar, salt, baking 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 frying pan out of the oven and melt the butter in it. Pour the oil into the dough and grease the entire pan with the rest. Mix the dough again and pour it into the mold. Bake for twenty to thirty minutes. We determine the readiness of the bread by the golden crust and the moment when it begins to move away from the walls of the pan.
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Spicy additives and fillings (red pepper, saffron, garlic, fried smoked meats, cheese, etc.) are added to the dough only before it is poured into the mold.
In general, corn flour is considered a dietary and healthy product. It’s not for nothing that recipes for dishes made from it are so “multinational”. So don't pass by when you see a bag of cornmeal on the supermarket counter. Try yourself as a researcher of the culture of the ancient Aztecs, who not only loved corn, but also revered it, calling it their golden sun.
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