Cornmeal is the 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 tastes differently. Whole grain corn flour helps to achieve weight loss.

Corn is rich in vitamins C, B1 and B5, folic acid, dietary fiber, phosphorus, manganese. Corn products - flours and cereals are rich in antioxidants, especially lute.

Researchers in Japan have found that the anthocyanins in cornmeal effectively fight the accumulation of fat cells. Therefore, it can be used as a preventive measure for weight loss. Anthocyanins affect the function of fat cells and stabilize metabolic syndrome.

Alimentary fiber corn flour are generally favorable. They improve bowel function, relieve constipation, lower cholesterol, regulate blood sugar, and help reduce weight.

The fiber found in cornmeal prevents the consumption of excess foods and helps to reduce weight through the feeling of satiety that occurs. In addition, because of its high fiber content, corn meals are lower in calories than other foods. 200 g of cornmeal 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 fermented in the large intestine. During this process, fatty acids block the body's ability. At the same time, he begins to consume fats consumed with food, and a person's weight decreases.

Corn meal meals can be harmful to people with high blood clotting rates. At the same time, the use of products from this product should be minimized. Also should not be included in your diet a large number of meals made from cornmeal for those who have been diagnosed with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. There may be times when pesticides used in corn growing can cause an allergic reaction.

Corn baked goods

So that the fat eaten with food does not harm the figure, you need to include cornmeal dishes in your diet. Use it when baking muffins, breads, pancakes. It can be used to powder the bottom of the baking sheet to prevent cooking food from burning. Combine the seasoning with the cornmeal for breading baked fish or meat chops.

Corn flour biscuit

It is light and does not contain a lot of calories. You can cook it in half an hour. Ingredients for this cake:

• corn flour - 1 tbsp;
• eggs - 5 pcs;
• sugar - 0.5 cups;
• zest of one lemon;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 1 tbsp vinegar.

1. Separate the eggs into yolks and whites first.
2. Place the cornmeal, lemon, salt and vinegar slaked baking soda in a bowl and mix.
3. Add the yolks and sugar, whipped with a blender.
4. Mix everything again with a mixer.
5. In a separate container, beat the whites into a strong foam and combine with the other ingredients.
6. Stir them gently.
7. Pour the resulting dough into the prepared form and bake for 30 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.
8. To slightly moisturize ready dough you can soak it with lemon syrup.

Corn flour bread

This type of bread is popular in Chile. To prepare it you need:

• 0.5 kg of wheat and 0.5 kg of corn flour;
• 1 hot pepper;
• 2 onions;
• 3 eggs;
• 200 g sour cream.

1. Mix the two flours thoroughly.
2. Add finely chopped hot peppers and onions.
3. Prepare the baking sheet by greasing the bottom and sides with oil.
4. In the center of the flour slide, make a depression and add beaten eggs and sour cream.
5. Knead the dough and place in a baking dish.
6. Place in oven for 35 minutes.
7. Cut the bread into portions while still hot.

Cornmeal cookies

For cooking you will need:

• 300 g corn and 300 g wheat flour;
• 20 g yeast;
• 100 g sesame oil;
• 3 tbsp. l. fennel and caraway seeds;
• a pinch of cinnamon.

1. Add some cinnamon powder and cumin powder to the water.
2. Add flour, yeast and a pinch of salt to the mixture.
3. Stir until smooth.
4. Stir in the sesame oil and beaten eggs a little at a time. If the dough is too tough, you can add a little water.
5. Roll out the finished dough 1 cm thick and cut it with a special mold or glass.
6. Place the cut cookies on the fennel sprinkled in a saucer and press lightly with your hand. After the cookies, place them on a greased baking sheet.
7. Place in the oven when the heating temperature reaches 180 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes.

Corn flour: calories

Start taking care of your weight by finding out your ideal stats. Stay away from diets that promise rapid weight loss in a short amount of time. Exercise regularly and balance your diet. Make sure that the necessary substances (proteins, fats and carbohydrates) enter the body. Calculate the calorie content of the meals consumed so that everything is spent.

To calculate the calorie content of cornmeal meals, consider the following indicator: 100g of whole grain cornmeal contains about 300 calories. They can be used up by dancing for 60 minutes.

Salty baked goods always serves as a great addition to any main course or soup. We usually make such baked goods from wheat flour, but from corn you can also cook quite a lot of similar baked products.

Such pastries will perfectly diversify your everyday menu for home. On holidays, such a treat on the table never goes unnoticed and always comes to the guests' taste. Try our recipes for making cornmeal baked goods and you will love her forever.

Salted cornmeal muffins

These muffins go well with any salad, soup, or other main course. You can take them with you on a long journey and you can have a great snack on the way with them. They are prepared very simply, the preparation of such goodies will not be difficult.

To make salty cornmeal muffins, you will need:

• Corn flour - 2.5 cups;
• Egg - 3 large pieces;
• Dill - 1 bunch;
• Green onions - 1 bunch;
• Soda - 1 teaspoon;
• Kefir - 1 liter;
• Butter - 100 g;
• Salt to taste.

Let's start cooking:

1. Use a convenient deep dough dish for cooking.
2. Pour all the kefir into a bowl at once. You can take it of any fat content, it does not matter and does not affect their taste.
3. Salt the kefir immediately to your liking. I usually put about 1 level tablespoon of salt.
4. Break the eggs into a separate bowl. Whisk them a little with a fork, just to mix the egg white and yolk. (You can break eggs directly to kefir, but it will be more difficult to combine them with kefir this way). Add eggs to kefir and stir.
5. Cut the dill as small as possible and add it to the kefir.
6. Cut the onion as finely as possible and add it directly to the kefir too. Stir kefir with herbs.
7. Melt the butter on the stove in a separate bowl. Pour it over the kefir with herbs and stir.
8. Then add a little flour, stir. Add the baking soda again and mix everything to disperse it. Then add all the flour and mix the dough.
9. Take the muffin tins. Lubricate them with a little vegetable oil. Pour the dough into molds.
10. Place muffins in tins on a baking sheet.
11. Place a baking sheet with tins in an oven preheated to 180 °, bake muffins until golden brown. Use a wooden toothpick to test if the muffins are cooked. The baking time is not indicated, because everyone has different sizes of tins and the baking time may differ.
12. Shake the finished muffins out of the molds.

Your cornmeal muffins are ready!

Pastries from corn flour

Many people love pasties, but we are used to cooking them with wheat flour, but this can also be done with corn flour. The taste is not worse at all, they turn out to be very tasty.

This recipe was given to me by a neighbor, she was taught to make such pasties at a time when there was a poor wheat harvest and wheat flour it was necessary to save.

To make cornmeal pasties you will need:

For the test:

• Corn flour - 1 cup (250 g);
• Water - 250 ml;
• Salt to taste;
• Refined sunflower oil - 1 tablespoon.

For minced meat:

• Minced meat - 500 g;
• Onions - 150 g;
• Ground black pepper - to taste;
• Salt to taste.

For frying:

• Refined sunflower oil.

Let's start cooking:

1. First you need to prepare the dough. To do this, prepare a deep dish.
2. Pour warm water into the bowl, not hot, just warm. Add vegetable oil to the water.
3. Salt a little dough to your liking.
4. In a separate bowl, combine corn and wheat flour.
5. Add a little dry mixture to the oil and water. Knead the dough. Wrap it in plastic wrap or put it in a bag. Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.
6. Now get into the stuffing. Use whatever minced meat you like. Take already ready-made minced meat or twist it yourself from a piece of meat.
7. Peel the onion and twist it through a meat grinder. You can grate or just chop very finely. Add the onion to the minced meat.
8. Season the minced meat with salt and pepper to your liking. Stir it well so that the mass becomes homogeneous.
9. Now take the dough. Pinch off pieces from it, roll the balls, then roll each ball thinly. Put the filling on the layer, pinch the edges tightly.
10. Pour oil into the pan and put it on the stove, you need a lot of oil. Chebureks should not just be fried, but cooked in oil.
11. Fry it on both sides until a beautiful, ruddy color.

Your pasties are ready!

Flaxseed Salted Corn Cookies

Delicious crispy biscuits. It goes very well with sweet coffee and tea, when you want something salty for them. You can also eat it with hot soup or dip it into a sauce. You can also use it for sandwiches or light snacks between meals.

For cooking salty corn biscuits you will need:

• Corn flour - 120 g;
• Wheat flour - 100 g;
• Refined vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons;
• Sugar - 1 teaspoon;
• Salt - 1 teaspoon;
• Milk - 120 ml;
• Flax seed, unmilled - 4 tablespoons;
• Baking powder for dough - 1 teaspoon.

Let's start cooking:

1. Use a comfortable deep dish for cooking.
2. Warm the milk a little, it should be slightly warmer than room temperature.
3. Add salt and sugar to the milk, stir to dissolve.
4. Then add vegetable oil to the milk, stir it a little with milk. You can take any oil, sunflower, olive or corn.
5. Mix corn flour, wheat flour, and baking powder separately. Stir them up.
6. Add half of the dry mixture to the milk and stir.
7. Then add the flax seeds, mix everything again.
8. Next, add the other half of the dry mixture. Knead the dough well.
9. Roll out the dough into a layer. The layer should not be thick, a maximum of 0.5 cm.
10. Then cut the layer into pieces of any shape and size. You can squeeze out with molds, the ones you have at home.
11. Take a baking sheet, cover it parchment paper... Place all the pieces on a baking sheet.
12. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 190 °, bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes. The cookies should be browning.
13. Place the cookies on a platter.

Your cookie is ready to serve!

Corn Pie "Proya" with spinach

This pie came to our kitchen from the Balkan Peninsula. The pie is delicious and nutritious. Great dish When delicious fresh spinach grows in the garden, you can of course cook it from frozen spinach, but it turns out to be much tastier from fresh one.

Try to cook it for your family, please them with a delicious and healthy pie.

To make Proya pie you will need:

• Corn flour - 500 g;
• Spinach - 250 g;
• Cheese or Feta Cheese - 300 g;
• Kefir - 200 ml;
• Refined sunflower oil - 200 ml;
• Mineral water with gas - 200 ml;
• Butter - 1 tablespoon 4
• Egg - 3 pieces;
• Salt to taste;
• Ground pepper - to taste.

Let's start cooking:

1. Cooking should start with spinach, because it still needs to be prepared.
2. Rinse the spinach and let the water drain off. Do not chop the spinach finely or just chop it.
3. Take a frying pan and place it on the stove. Put butter in a frying pan, in the recipe I was given exactly a tablespoon, I just do it with a tablespoon, but for this it must be soft.
4. Once it has melted, add the spinach to the skillet. Season with salt and pepper to your liking. The spinach must be blanched for 10 minutes.
5. Then place the cooked spinach and butter in the bowl in which you will cook the dough.
6. Add kefir to it, you can replace it with unsweetened yogurt. Stir.
7. Rub the cheese on a coarse grater and add to the spinach as well.
8. Break the eggs into a separate bowl, beat them with a fork and pour over the spinach.
9. Add to the spinach mass mineral water, you need just mineral and highly carbonated.
10. Mix everything.
11. Mix flour with dough. Add it gradually to the spinach mass. Knead the dough well until smooth.
12. Now take a baking dish, I take a detachable one with a diameter of 28 cm. Grease it with vegetable oil and pour the dough into it.
13. Place the pan in an oven preheated to 180 °, bake the cake for 40 minutes. It must cover golden brown... Be sure to check the readiness with a toothpick.
14. Ready pie take it out of the mold.

Your pie is ready to serve!

Corn biscuit with cheese and tomatoes

This dish is similar to pizza and tastes delicious. It is prepared very simply and preparation will not be difficult for you. It is better to eat it, like pizza, hot, but it is also quite tasty cold. Cook it for your loved ones, please them with a new yummy in your menu. The ingredients on the menu are for 1 serving.

To make corn biscuits, you will need:

• Corn flour - 50 g;
• Wheat flour - 50 g;
• Egg - 1 piece;
• Sugar - 0.5 teaspoon;
• Salt - a quarter teaspoon;
• Refined sunflower oil - 30 ml;
• Tomato - 1 piece;
• Processed cheese - 100 g;
• Hard cheese - 50 g.

Let's start cooking:

1. Take a convenient dish for the test. There will be little of it and small dishes are also needed.
2. Break an egg into a bowl, add salt and sugar to it. Mix them well.
3. Mix corn and wheat flour. Add the flour mixture to the egg. Stir everything well.
4. Roll the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic, or put it in a bag. Put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
5. Then roll out a layer of dough.
6. Leaving about 2 cm from the edge, rub and smooth the cream cheese in the center.
7. Wash the tomato, cut it into half rings and put it on top of the melted cheese.
8. Then rub hard cheese on top.
9. Next, pinch the edges of the dough that you left in a circle. The center should remain open, the dough should cover only part of the filling.
10. Place the biscuit on a baking sheet and place it in the oven. Preheat the oven to 180 °, bake the biscuit for 20 minutes. She should be reddened.

Serve the cooked biscuit hot. Bon Appetit!

Corn bread

Very tasty corn bread... He will create variety in bread products for you. This bread is just perfect for any dish you cook. If you haven't tried cornbread yet, then you should try it.

To make corn bread you will need:

• Corn flour - 1 cup (250 g);
• Wheat flour - 1 cup (200 g);
• Sugar - 100 g;
• Kefir - 250 ml;
• Salt - 1 teaspoon;
• Butter - 100 g;
• Refined vegetable oil - 70 g;
• Egg - 1 piece;
• Baking powder for dough - 2 teaspoons.

Let's start cooking:

1. Take a dish that is convenient for making the dough.
2. Heat the kefir a little, it should be slightly warmer than room temperature.
3. Add sugar and salt to kefir, stir them.
4. Melt the butter on the stove, it should become liquid.
5. Add vegetable oil to the butter. Stir them together.
6. Add the butter mixture to the kefir and stir.
7. Combine corn flour, wheat flour, and baking powder in a separate bowl.
8. Add the whole dry mixture gradually to kefir. Mix everything well together.
9. Take a bread pan, or whatever. Lubricate it with a little vegetable oil.
10. Pour all the dough into a mold.
11. Place the pan in a preheated 180 ° oven and bake the bread until golden brown. The baking time is not indicated, because everything takes its shape and the time is always different.
12. Once it's ready, shake it out of the mold.

Your cornbread is ready!

Cream Cheese Corn Tortillas

Highly delicious tortillas that you can easily prepare at home. These flatbreads go well with any dish, no matter what you cook. They can also be used as an independent dish, for example, with a cup of tea or a glass of milk, it is very good to take with you on the road.

For the test:

• Cornmeal - 2 cups (200 ml)
• Wheat flour - 2 cups (200 ml);
• Water - 350 ml;
• Refined sunflower oil - 3 tablespoons;
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons;
• Salt - 1 teaspoon;
• Oregano - to taste;
• Dry yeast - 2 teaspoons.

For filling:

• Processed cheese - 500 g;
• Vegetable oil - for lubricating the cake.

Let's start cooking:

1. For cooking, immediately take a deep dish in which it will be convenient to prepare the dough and in which it can fit.
2. Heat the water until warm. Pour it into a bowl.
3. Add dry yeast, sugar and salt to the water, stir everything well.
4. In a separate bowl, combine corn flour, wheat flour, and dry oregano. Mix everything.
5. Add dry mixture to yeast water. Add the dry mixture gradually, stirring constantly.
6. Knead the dough. Knead it on the table if necessary.
7. Let the dough rise in a warm place for 10 minutes.
8. Then divide the dough into 5 pieces.
9. Roll each part into a round layer.
10. Lubricate each such layer with vegetable oil, necessarily refined, you can use olive or corn oil.
11. Rub 100 grams of processed cheese into the center of each layer.
12. Then pinch the edges of the flatbread as you would when making a whitewash.
13. Then roll out the cake thinner.
14. Place the tortillas on a dry baking sheet.
15. Use a fork to top each cake to prevent it from blowing up like a bubble.
16. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 °, bake them for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
17. Remove your tortillas from the oven and off the baking sheet.

Your tortillas are ready!

Sausages in corn dough on a skewer

Highly unusual dish for the holiday and everyday life. Such sausages are very fond of children, they are prepared right on a skewer and it is very convenient to eat them without getting your hands dirty.

Add the corn dough to the tortillas special taste, it turns out to be tender and crunchy. A very convenient dish for outdoor recreation. We prepare these sausages for children's parties, such a treat for children is incredible delight.

To make sausages in corn dough, you will need:

• Corn flour - 100 g;
• Wheat flour - 100 g;
• Dried sweet paprika - 1 level tablespoon;
• Sugar - 1 level tablespoon;
• Salt - a pinch;
• Egg - 1 large piece;
• Milk - 10 tablespoons;
• Sausages - 700-800 g;
• Refined sunflower oil - for frying.

Let's start cooking:

1. To prepare the dough, you will need a deep dish in which it will be convenient for you not only to prepare the dough, but also to dip the sausages.
2. First, pour 8 tablespoons of milk into the dishes.
3. Add the egg to the milk. It should be large, if you have small ones, then put 2 eggs. Toss eggs with milk.
4. Add sugar, salt and paprika. Mix everything again.
5. Combine corn flour, wheat flour and baking powder separately in a separate bowl.
6. Add the dry mixture to the milk mass. Stir. You should have a dough with a consistency like a thick batter, if the dough is thicker, add more milk, add milk until the dough is of the desired consistency. The amount of milk depends on the quality of the flour.
7. Now take the sausages. If you take large ones, then it will take you about 10 pieces. I always take small baby sausages. If you have large ones, cut each into 2-3 pieces.
8. Immediately place the oil on the stove to warm up. It needs to be poured into a bowl in which you can conveniently dip the sausages. I use a 1 liter mug. You need to pour a lot of oil. I pour 0.5 liters of oil into a mug. Sausages should be cooked in oil.
9. Now pin each sausage on a skewer, dip it into the dough and send it to boiling oil. To make the dough take better, I first roll them in flour.
10. Fry the sausages until golden brown.
11. I put them directly on a waffle towel so that the excess fat goes away, and then I put them in a vase with a sausage up and serve it on the table.

Bon Appetit!

Spicy corn tortilla with sprinkles

These are incredible fragrant cakes our whole family loves. A friend from Abkhazia gave me this recipe. After her incredibly delicious story about these cakes, which are always cooked in their family, I really wanted to try them.

After the first time, everyone fell in love with such cakes. Now I bake them even for a holiday for guests, they just fly away from the dish and bread is no longer needed.

To make tortillas you will need:

• Corn flour - 130-140 g;
• Kefir - 100 ml;
• Egg - 1 piece;
• Baking powder for dough - 1 teaspoon;
• Salt - half a teaspoon;
• Dried Italian herbs - 1 teaspoon;
• Dried green onions - 1 teaspoon;
• Dried garlic - 1 teaspoon;
• Dried sweet paprika - 1 teaspoon;
• Refined vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
• Poppy - 1 tablespoon;
• Sesame seeds - 1 tablespoon;
• Vegetable oil for lubricating flat cakes.

Let's start cooking:

1. For cooking, take a convenient container in which you will prepare the dough.
2. Pour all the kefir into this bowl.
3. Break an egg into kefir and add salt, mix kefir with an egg using a fork or whisk. They should become a homogeneous mass.
4. Then make a dry mixture in a separate bowl. Add all the flour, baking powder, dry mixture of Italian herbs, dried green onions, sweet paprika, and dried garlic. Mix everything well.
5. Add the entire dry mixture gradually to the kefir and egg. Knead the dough.
6. Divide the dough you get into 6 equal parts. Roll them into balls.
7. Roll out a cake from each ball, its thickness should be about 0.5 cm. Place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
8. Then grease each cake with vegetable oil, you can take any vegetable oil that you like.
9. Then sprinkle each cake with sesame seeds and poppy seeds. Press the sprinkle lightly onto the dough with your hand.
10. Place a baking sheet with tortillas in an oven preheated to 180 °, bake them for 15 minutes.

Your corn tortillas completely ready!

Salted Corn Waffles with Canned Corn

We are all used to the fact that waffles are sweet baked goods, but these waffles are cooked salty. They are just perfect for breakfast. Such waffles for breakfast will give you a boost of vivacity for the whole day and enrich your body with a mass of useful substances.

To make corn waffles you will need:

For the test:

• Corn flour - 140 g;
• Wheat flour - 140 g;
• Egg - 2 pieces;
• Milk - 1 glass (200 ml);
• Butter - 100 g;
• Canned corn - 100 g;
• Salt to taste;
• Ground pepper to taste.

To grease waffles:

• Butter - 100-150 g;
• Canned corn - 150 g.

Let's start cooking:

1. Immediately prepare the dishes in which it will be convenient for you to mix all the dough.
2. Pour all the milk into it at once, it must be heated to a temperature slightly warmer than room temperature, but do not make it very warm.
3. Crack the eggs into the milk and beat with a fork or whisk.
4. Then add salt and pepper to your liking.
5. Discard the canned corn in a colander, its juice is not needed in the dough. Add 100 grams of corn to the milk.
6. In a separate bowl, combine corn and wheat flour. Add it to milk, and mix everything thoroughly, there should be no lumps of flour.
7. Then melt the butter, pour it into the dough and mix thoroughly until smooth. (The butter can be replaced with margarine, the taste will not change from this, but the cost for itself will decrease).
8. Then you need to bake the waffles in the waffle iron as usual. Here, do everything as usual.
9. The finished waffles must be cooled completely.
10. Then brush them with butter and sprinkle with the remaining canned corn on top.

Your waffles are ready to serve!

Corn pizza

A great option for pizza based on corn dough. The dough is very tasty and the pizza is very unusual. Such a treat can be served on the table for guests on a holiday.

My family is very fond of pizza in any of its versions, and this one was no exception. Be sure to try making it on this dough as a variety in your home menu. Ingredients for 2 x 25 cm pizzas or one large

To make corn pizza you will need:

For the test:

• Corn flour - 80 g;
• Corn starch - 40 g;
• Egg - 2 pieces;
• Low-fat cottage cheese - 200 g;
• Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
• Baking powder for dough - 2 teaspoons;
• Salt to taste.

For filling:

• Ketchup - 6 tablespoons;
• Sausage - 300 g;
• Champignons - 250 g;
• Canned corn - 150 g;
• Tomato - 2 pieces;
• Any cheese - 200 g.

Let's start cooking:

1. Let's start cooking with dough. For the dough, you need a convenient container to prepare it.
2. Put all the cottage cheese out immediately, if you have a large one, then remember a little with a fork, so that it becomes small, you do not need to grind it into a paste with a blender.
3. Add eggs to the curd and mix everything well.
4. Add vegetable oil, you can take any to your taste or just the one that you have in the house. Stir the butter with the curd mixture.
5. Then, separate the cornmeal, cornstarch, and baking powder separately.
6. Add dry mass to curd. Knead the dough thoroughly, if suddenly it sticks to your hands, then add a little more corn flour.
7. Then divide the resulting dough into two parts if you will bake two pizzas. Or cook from the whole piece if you are going to make one large one.
8. Two small ones need to be rolled into layers with a diameter of 25 cm, and of course a large one with a diameter of 50 cm or according to your shape.
9. Put the finished layer on the form in which you will bake.
10. Send the finished dough for the base to the oven, preheated to 180 °, let it stand there for 10 minutes. (It's just corn flour - it's harder, and if you put the filling on all the raw dough- it will be damp).
11. Next, remove the dough from the oven and start filling it.
12. Grease the top of the dough well with ketchup, you can mix it with mayonnaise.
13. Then cut the sausage as you like and spread it over the dough.
14. Then cut the tomatoes into half rings and arrange them in the same way.
15. Then cut the mushrooms into slices, put them on the filling.
16. Lastly, rub the cheese directly onto the pizza. You can take any cheese you like and what you can afford, I cook with different cheeses from melted to solid.
17. Send the pizza to the oven preheated to 180 °, bake it for 25 minutes.
18. Take it out and serve it hot.

Bon Appetit!

Corn muffins with sausages and hard cheese

These muffins are perfect for a snack any time of the day. It is good to cook them both for breakfast and for lunch or dinner. They are perfect for taking with you on the road. My children often take this delicacy to school and for a walk. Even on a holiday, they are great for serving guests.

To make cupcakes you will need:

• Corn flour –2 cups (250 g each);
• Butter - 100 g;
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons;
• Salt - 0.5 teaspoon;
• Egg - 2 pieces;
• Kefir - 250 ml;
• Baking powder for dough - 1 teaspoon;
• Dutch cheese - 150 g;
• Sausages - 7 pieces.

Let's start cooking:

1. For cooking, take a container in which it will be convenient to prepare the dough.
2. Pour all the kefir into a bowl.
3. Add sugar and salt to kefir, mix.
4. Break the eggs into kefir, mix everything with a whisk.
5. Melt the butter until liquid, pour the melted butter over to the kefir. Stir.
6. Then mix the flour with baking powder.
7. Gradually add flour to the kefir mass, knead the dough well. There should be no lumps.
8. Then take the sausages, peel them from the packaging. Cut the sausages into small cubes.
9. Pour the chopped sausages to the dough, mix well.
10. Then grate the cheese on a coarse grater, pour it into the dough.
11. Stir the dough well so that all the ingredients mix well, pay special attention to how the cheese disperses in the dough, it can stick together in lumps. I usually rub a little at once into the dough and stir constantly.
12. Then take the cupcake molds, you can use disposable paper ones. Lubricate the molds with a little vegetable oil.
13. Fill the molds with dough a little more than half, you should not pour more, because the dough rises well and can go beyond the edges of the mold.
14. Place the molds on a baking sheet. Send the baking sheet with the tins to the oven preheated to 180 °, bake the muffins until golden brown.
15. Be sure to check the readiness with a toothpick. I do not indicate the baking time due to the fact that all molds have different sizes and therefore the baking time is always different. (I use regular, standard size iron pan. This size usually takes about 25-30 minutes to bake.)
16. Gently shake the finished muffins out of the mold. If you used disposables, then naturally you do not need to do this.

It is best to serve the muffins hot, but they are also quite tasty when cold.

Enjoy your meal!

Usually, the cookie idea comes up when there is a little unused flour left. This is much more common with cornmeal. And this is very good idea! And most importantly - incredibly fast.

Benefits of corn flour

This product contains all the immense benefits of corn itself. Beautiful color, special structure and unique taste - ideal flour for baking. It is also gluten-free, which has become a real threat not only for those looking to lose weight. Cookies made from it are much healthier and safer for children in terms of allergies.

This product is stored ready-made for much longer. That is, the cookies remain crispy and fresh for a long time, as if they had just been taken out of the oven. She keeps her taste qualities and goes well with various additives, both sweet and savory.

Chopped corn quickly saturates the body, bringing with it many micro and macro elements, vitamins, and minerals. It contains a lot of vegetable protein. Moreover, it has a lower calorie content than wheat, so nutritionists recommend it. Plus, a high fiber content has the best effect on bowel function.

Almost all baked goods made 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 benefits and versatility.

A simple recipe for gluten-free sweets

Algorithm for making gluten-free cornmeal cookies:

Shortbread cookies for children

• 7 g vanillin;
• 220 g corn flour;
• 6 g salt;
• 60 g icing sugar;
• 220 g wheat flour;
• 190 g butter.

Time - 1 h 15 min.

Caloric content - 447 kcal / 100 g.

Preparation:

1. Sift both types of flour together with salt into one large bowl, and then mix them with a spoon;
2. In a smaller bowl, cut the butter into pieces. It is desirable that it be soft, then it will be easier to mix it with vanilla and icing sugar... You can use sugar, but the powder will dissolve faster;
3. Beat this creamy mass with a mixer for about two minutes so that it increases in volume;
4. Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter and knead the dough. You may need less flour. You do not need to knead much, it is enough to make the dough gather in a ball;
5. This ball must be placed in the refrigerator for an hour. It is better to wrap it in foil so that it does not dry out;
6. Pull the ball out after a while and hold it in the room for about five minutes. When it has become softer, you can form smaller balls and put them on a baking sheet;
7. Cookies should be baked for about twelve minutes, they should only change color slightly at a temperature of 170 degrees.

Rice and Corn Flour Cookies

• 3 g dough powder;
• 75 g rice flour;
• 1 egg;
• 25 g corn flour;
• 60 g sugar;
• 60 g butter.

Time - 1 hour 25 minutes.

Caloric content - 408 kcal / 100 g.

Cooking process:

1. Mix in a container first soft butter with sugar, then beat in an egg and beat the whole mass with a mixer. It should rise, and the sugar grains should dissolve;
2. Sift rice and corn flour together with baking powder and add to the butter mass, kneading the dough;
3. The ball of this dough must be cooled in the refrigerator, it takes about an hour;
4. Roll the cooled ball into a bar and cut it into neat squares. For it to cut well, the knife must be warm;
5. Chop the squares with a fork and send them on a baking sheet to bake over medium heat. They do not need to be kept in the oven for more than fifteen minutes. Store in an airtight container.

Cornmeal Nut Biscuits

• 130 g walnuts;
• 225 g corn flour;
• 120 g sugar.

Time - 25 minutes.

Caloric content - 363 kcal / 100 g.

How to cook:

1. Beat cold eggs with sugar, foam should form on top;
2. Sift flour here and stir in it;
3. Heat the nuts quite a bit in a frying pan, and then grind them in your hands to remove excess husks. Then immerse them in a blender or mince them to make a nut gruel. It needs to be added to the rest of the ingredients. Instead of walnuts, you can use absolutely any other nuts, including a mix of them;
4. Mix all the ingredients and transfer them to a pastry bag. If it is not there, you can spread the cookies directly on the baking sheet with a spoon. You can give any shape;
5. Bake for about fifteen minutes at 200 Celsius.

Fasting baked goods

• 110 g sugar;
• 90 ml of water;
• 225 g wheat flour;
• 15 ml vinegar;
• 6 g of soda;
• 210 g corn flour;
• 110 ml of oil.

Time - 30 minutes.

Caloric content - 369 kcal / 100 g.

How to cook lean cookies from corn flour without eggs:

1. Both types of flour must be sifted and sugar added to them, mixed;
2. Combine oil with water in a separate container, stir with a fork or whisk;
3. Dissolve soda in a large spoonful of vinegar, and then pour it into an oil-water liquid, stir;
4. Now pour the liquid into the flour mixture, stir and knead the rather fatty dough. You should not add more flour;
5. Let the dough rest for ten minutes, then cut it into pieces that need to be rolled into balls. Put them on a baking sheet, it is not necessary to grease it;
6. After that, send to bake at 180 Celsius for a maximum of twenty minutes.

Banana Corn Flour Cookies

• 15 ml of oil;
• 4 g of soda;
• 1 banana;
• 10 ml apple cider vinegar;
• 60 g corn flour.

Time - 35 minutes.

Caloric content - 209 kcal / 100 g.

Cooking method:

1. Peeled banana must be mashed with a hand blender. If there is no blender, you can just knead it well with a fork;
2. Then add a little oil to the puree and stir;
3. Pour sifted flour into the same bowl, and also add a little soda, quenched with vinegar. To mix everything;
4. The dough will be quite dense. It needs to be rolled into a layer, not too thin;
5. Cut out future cookies with a mold. Can be made in the form of emoticons or asterisks, as you like. Transfer to a silicone mat;
6. Bake over medium heat for about ten minutes. Let cool and serve.

The recipes presented 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 and unsweetened ingredients... These can be olives or crispy bacon slices. Of course, then you need to reduce the amount of sugar. Various spices can be added: nutmeg, various spices, stir in ginger, cinnamon, coconut flakes, chocolate drops, even chili peppers! It only depends on your own preferences.

The versatility and special taste of corn flour are only a small part of its advantages. Cookies from it are always crispy and tender at the same time. To prepare it in the evening for tea is a matter of a few minutes!

Eh, the times are long gone when, with a light feed from Nikita Sergeevich (who promised the Americans to show his mother to Kuzkin), corn was the queen of the fields. And then corn was sold in stores, and corn flour was - heaps! But no, cornmeal dishes do not take root in our East Slavic cuisine. Meanwhile, corn flour (like cereals) has been and still remains a very popular ingredient in the cuisines of different nations.

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 boast of in this regard (except for sweet corn sticks Soviet times). Therefore, we can only learn the art of cooking dishes from corn flour, the recipes of which were inherited by modern people from the ancient Aztecs.

Tortillas from Mexico

If we are already talking about the Aztecs who founded Mexico City, then we will begin to master the recipes for corn flour dishes from Mexican tortillas. These corn tortillas are delicious on their own and as a base for many Mexican dishes. Real tortillas require an open fire and a special earthenware pan. But we will perfectly cope with them in a regular frying pan.

Ingredients:

• Corn flour (one and a half cups)
• Water (half glass)
• Margarine (50 g)

Preparation:

Finely chop the margarine with a knife. Sift the flour and add to the margarine, there is also a pinch of salt. We grind the margarine with flour into crumbs and, gradually pouring in water, knead the dough. Divide the dough into several parts (according to the number of future cakes), cover with a towel and leave for fifteen minutes. Then roll out round thin cakes from the dough and fry them on both sides in a dry (no oil!) Hot frying pan. The tortillas are ready! You can eat them instead of bread, or you can go ahead and cook ...

On the basis of tortillas, you can make tostados - the same flour cakes, 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 you throw the stuffed cake into a tube, then the dish will already be called a burrito. It's funny. Is not it? But only the Mexicans are so amused. And, for example, in Georgia they prepare more "laconic" corn cakes.

Mchadi from Georgia

The recipes for mchadi and tortillas are very similar, but still this different dishes... If you are interested in "feel the difference", prepare both options and compare.

Ingredients:

• Corn flour (3 cups)
• Butter (50 g)
• Water (one and a half glasses)

Add a piece of butter, a pinch of salt to the sifted flour and, adding water, knead the soft and slightly sticky dough. With wet hands, form oblong cakes from the dough, which we put in a preheated pan and bake in the oven. This method of cooking mchadi is the closest to baking them in traditional stone pans "ketsi". But many housewives fry mchadi in a pan in vegetable oil(like regular cutlets). These cakes are served with cheese (ideally with Imeretian or suluguni).

Polenta from Italy

By and large, polenta is satisfying and delicious porridge, which was originally thought to be food for the poor. But over time, it was "figured out" by the better-off Italians, and besides, they were "ennobled". Polenta recipes differ mainly in additives. It is prepared with cheese, vegetables, mushrooms, seafood, minced meat... Try making polenta with cheese first.

Ingredients:

• Corn flour (350 g)
• Water (600 ml)
• Milk (400 ml)
• Butter (150 g)
• Cheese (200 g)
• Clove of garlic
• A piece of stale bread
• Greens

Preparation:

Prepare cheese (grated) and garlic oil for polenta in advance. For the latter, melt the butter in a 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. Cook it over low heat, without ceasing to interfere (it is more convenient to do this with a wooden spatula). After boiling polenta for about fifteen minutes, add grated cheese to it. Add in small portions, waiting until all the cheese dissolves into porridge. At the very end, pour out the garlic oil and remove the pan from the heat. Serve with herbs.

Cornbread from America (by Stephen King)

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 that the hero of Tom Hanks used to treat the black giant? And, for sure, this bread was prepared according to traditional recipe, which is held in high esteem by all housewives in the southern American states.

Ingredients:

• A glass of cornmeal
• Cup sour milk
• A tablespoon of sugar
• Incomplete glass of water
• Butter (2 tablespoons)
• Baking dough (sachet)
• Baking soda (quarter teaspoon)

Preparation:

Turn on the oven in advance and place an empty thick-bottomed pan in it (let them warm up). Meanwhile, pour a tablespoon of flour into a bowl and pour boiling water over it (an incomplete glass). Whisk 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, 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 the lumps are dissolved.

We take out the frying pan from the oven and melt the butter on it. Pour the oil into the dough, and grease the entire pan with its remnants. Mix the dough again and pour it into the mold. We 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 fillings (red pepper, saffron, garlic, toasted smoked meats, cheese, etc.) are added to the dough just before it is poured into the mold.

In general, corn flour is considered dietary and useful product... It is not for nothing that the recipes from it are so “multinational”. So do not pass by when you see a bag of cornmeal on the counter of the supermarket. 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.

Corn is a traditional agricultural crop, known since the time of the Mayan Indians. In Mexico and Brazil, some states of the USA and South America, Romania, Moldova, in the south of Ukraine, corn fields are as much an integral part of the rural landscape as the crops of oats or rye in central Russia. Naturally, this culture is used not only as food for domestic animals, but also found the widest application in national cuisines.

What is corn flour

Few have not tried boiled or baked baby corn on the cob. Soft, sweet, seasoned with salt and garlic, fragrant, it melts in your mouth, awakening a truly gigantic appetite and making you reach for the next portion. And we gladly put canned beans in soups and borscht, add to salads. And then we just feast on it. However, in cooking for cooking various dishes corn flour is often used. "What is this product?" - you ask. We answer: these are peeled and crushed grains of yellow corn - just like wheat is crushed into flour. The product can be finely ground (premium, extra, first grade) and coarse. Both types are irreplaceable in many national dishes.

What we cook from flour

Corn flour top grade goes for homemade baking, cooking hominy, banush, porridge. Coarser varieties - cereals - are used for dressing soups, for stuffing stuffed cabbage rolls, for breading meat, fish, dough products. Corn flour is a dietary product, since it is extremely rich in useful microelements. It is very easily absorbed by the body, improves digestive processes, is a high energy product, actively restores strength and calories. Therefore, food, which includes cornmeal, is recommended by nutritionists when drawing up a menu for debilitated patients. But also as everyday meals, corn dishes will perfectly diversify your table!

Her majesty hominy!

In Moldova, Romania and the border regions of Ukraine, for about 5 centuries, one of the most popular dishes is hominy. This is a thick, even cool porridge, yellow like the summer sun, with a slight sweetish aftertaste. They eat it with milk and sugar, with salted cheese and cracklings, fried meat and sauces. Previously, not a single solemn feast was complete without this food. Now, of course, in cities it has become less common in home culinary delights. But in rural areas it is still not losing ground. Main ingredient delicacy - all the same corn flour. Hominy recipes may differ slightly in the composition of the components, but the cooking technology is always the same. Which one - you will find out now.

Ingredients and proportions

As they say about pancakes, that the first of them is lumpy, so mamalyga rarely turns out to be successful for the first or second time. It takes a lot of skill and dexterity to cook it. Special requirements are imposed on flour - it should be only of the highest grade, carefully sifted and well dried in the oven. The dish is cooked in a cast-iron pot: no enamel or thin-walled pots are suitable. And it interferes with a long wooden spoon or spatula, rolling pin. The ratio of ingredients is about 1 to 3. So, let's start preparing this dish using corn flour. Pour one and a half liters of water into the cast iron, add an incomplete tablespoon of salt. When it boils, pour in the cereal in a thin stream, stirring all the time. Or add directly from a sieve. Another way is to first throw in a handful, and as soon as the water boils again - after a minute - pour in the rest of the portion at once. Screw the fire down to a small one and cook the dish, stirring it clockwise all the time, along the walls of the iron pot. Cooking time is about 30 minutes. Then reduce the heat to low and simmer the porridge for another 15 minutes. It should be very thick, so that it does not stick to the mixer.

Mamalyga: end of cooking

Now the crucial moment: soak an aluminum spoon in water and separate the hominy from the walls of the dishes with it. Let it bake for another 5 minutes on the stove to better lag behind. And then it's simple: shake the iron pot a couple of times and turn the contents onto a cutting board. If the mamalyga is successful, it will retain its shape and will not fall apart. Cut the food into slices with a thin coarse thread or fishing line, like a cake. And bring it to the table - surprise your family and friends! Just don't forget to submit to her fresh cucumbers and tomatoes, green onions and garlic, dill and parsley. And be sure to eat cheese! Believe me, you will get a real feast of the gods.

Tortillas, tortillas, tortillas!

But in this paragraph, you will learn how to make cornmeal tortillas. In the Caucasus, in Mexico, they often replace bread and are a full-fledged dish or an important additional component for some kind of food. Such cakes can be baked in the oven, fried in a pan with or without butter. The simplest recipe is: 2 cups of sifted flour, hot water or milk, salt to taste. Knead the ingredients into an elastic dough. It should be neither brittle nor liquid. Next, divide the dough into equal parts, roll out round cakes (about a centimeter thick) and bake in a frying pan in vegetable oil. If you wish, you can add feta cheese or grated cheese to the dough when kneading (then do not salt!) Put the finished cakes on napkins so that they are not too greasy. You can eat just like that, hot, or you can wrap pieces of meat in them, grease them with jam, etc. The main thing is that it will be very, very tasty!

Butter baked goods

If you didn't know, let's clarify: corn flour is as complete a product as wheat flour. Doesn't make for great pastries and desserts. In addition, cornmeal baked goods do not stale for a long time, they have a high-quality presentation. For example, this delicious cookie. You will need a glass of flour, 100 g butter or baking margarine, 150-200 g of sugar or powder, a dozen chicken eggs, some vanilla and a couple of teaspoons of cinnamon. Separate the yolks from the whites, rub the first ones well with sugar and butter until white. And from the proteins, beat a strong foam. Then connect the components. Mix the cinnamon, vanilla and flour and add a little to the prepared ingredients. Knead the mass well, spread it in a layer on a greased baking sheet. Place in a preheated oven and bake the cornmeal cookies over low heat for about 10 minutes. Then cut the still warm dough into squares and cover with warmed honey, prick the surface with a fork. Let the dessert cool and serve with tea! Everything will be eaten very quickly!

Corn pie

And here's another really cute recipe for real cornmeal pie. More precisely, from cakes prepared on its basis. Take 200 g of kefir or sour milk; fresh whey is also suitable. And also 250 grams of flour of two varieties - wheat and corn. 100 grams of semolina - for the airiness of the dough. Salt and sugar to taste. Knead the dough, roll into a ball, let stand to swell the semolina. Then roll it into flat cakes of the same size, even number. On one put any filling you want (like shawarma, or even just pieces of meat, vegetables, even sausages), cover the other, etc. The edges need to be pinched. Place the product on a baking sheet, bake in the oven until golden brown (temperature 180 degrees). Cut the finished "pie" into slices and serve on the table. You can serve it with ketchup or your favorite sauce. Bon Appetit!