What to cook from corn grits

The content of the article

• Corn grits
• Fucking
• Pie
• Cookies
• Hominy
• Banosh
• Beneficial features

Corn grits can be found in many grocery stores. Among Russian consumers, it is not particularly in demand.

Corn grits

A variety of delicious dishes can be prepared from corn grits. Many of them belong to Moldavian or Latin American cuisines..

Fucking

For the preparation of pancakes using cereals from corn, you need:

• corn grits -? st .;
• milk – 2 tbsp .;
• wheat flour – 50 g;
• sugar – 40 g;
• egg – 1 pc.

The cooking process consists of the following actions:

1. Make cereal porridge and cool.
2. Add egg and sugar.
3. Form cakes and roll them in flour.
4. Fry in a frying pan on both sides in vegetable oil.

If you wish, you can put dried apricots or raisins in the porridge.

Pie

To make corn grits pie, the latter is ground in a blender or coffee grinder.

What you need to make a pie:

• egg – 1 pc.;
• corn grits flour – 80 g;
• wheat flour – 80 g;
• sugar – 50 g;
• butter – 100 g.

For cooking you need:

1. Grate butter with sugar and egg.
2. Add wheat and corn flour to the products gradually.
3. Knead the dough and put it in a baking dish.
4. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and put the future pie in it for 15 minutes.

Sprinkle the cake with icing sugar or grated chocolate..

Cookies

Cooking cookies is similar to cooking pancakes. First, porridge is cooked from cereals, and then cooled to room temperature. Next, make the dough and cook cookies in the oven. To make healthy cornmeal cookies, you need to:

• cereal porridge – 1.5 tbsp .;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• sugar – 4 tbsp. l .;
• vanillin to taste.

The cooking process includes:

1. Put sugar, egg and vanilla in the prepared cold porridge.
2. Mix everything with a blender.
3. Use a spoon on a baking sheet to spread medium-sized cookies.
4. Preheat oven to 160 degrees.
5. Bake cookies for 10 minutes.

After the cookies have cooled, they can be removed from the pan..

Hominy

Mamalyga is the national dish of Moldova. It is a very dense porridge that can be cut with a knife. To prepare it, you will need the following products:

• small corn grits – 200 g;
• water – 600 ml;
• garlic – 1 clove;
• chili pepper – 2 pods.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the cereal well, pour it with hot water and cook on low heat for half an hour.
2. At the end, add garlic and pepper to the porridge.
3. Put on a board and cut with a knife.

Banosh

Banosh is a Hutsul porridge. It is prepared from the finest ground corn grits or ground ordinary grits in a coffee grinder. Sour cream for banosh use only homemade. The following products are needed to prepare this dish:

• corn grits – 200 g;
• sour cream – 300 g;
• milk – 0.5 l;
• salt – 1 tsp;
• feta cheese – 100 g.

Cooking a banosh consists of the following steps:

1. Pour milk into a saucepan and add sour cream to it..
2. Bring to a boil and reduce heat so that the foods continue to simmer a little..
3. Pour groats into a pan with a thin stream, while stirring vigorously with a wooden spatula.
4. Add salt and continue to stir in a circle in one direction (this is very important).
5. After about 5 minutes the oil should come to the surface. When this happens, remove the pan from the heat..
6. Banosh is served hot, and sprinkled with cheese grated on top.

Beneficial features

Corn contains few proteins that can cause allergic reactions. It is rich in various vitamins and minerals. It contains silicon, which allows you to maintain a healthy state of the gums and teeth. In addition, corn has the following useful qualities:

• contained vitamins A and E support the beauty of the skin;
• B vitamins contribute to the normal functioning of the nervous system;
• porridge made from corn grits will cleanse the body of toxins and toxins. She will also remove radionuclides, which is the prevention of cancer;
• in corn there are substances that strengthen nerve fibers. This helps maintain memory, attention, and good learning abilities;
• with regular use, corn will reduce bad cholesterol and bring pressure back to normal;
• corn cleanses the intestines well. It positively affects the digestive system;
• corn prevents the absorption of fats with other products, which helps to reduce excess weight;
• Corn grits are especially useful for children. It will strengthen the protective functions of the child, make him more calm. Thanks to the iron contained in corn, porridge from it will be an excellent product for the prevention of anemia. It is possible to give porridge to babies from 9 months.

Corn grits – a product from which you can make a lot of tasty and healthy dishes. Regular consumption of products from corn grits will saturate the body with important trace elements and maintain its healthy state..