Croup of corn: recipes for cooking tasty and healthy dishes

Have you ever thought how to cook corn grits? If you do not have children, it is unlikely. Yes, and children, you probably cooked porridge with milk and nothing else. And let's see what else you can cook and how useful the corn groats are at all. Recipes of dishes from it are presented below.

To begin with, the correct name for corn is maize. Her forefather is South America, and this culture is very ancient. Corn has a lot of useful properties, and most importantly, it has a unique property not to lose useful substances after heat treatment.

Groats of corn: recipes of porridge

Believe me, cereal from this cereal can also be cooked very differently. Let's start with the most common recipe.

Corn porridge: a classic recipe

4 large spoons of raisins should be soaked in warm water for about 10 minutes. Rinse a glass of corn groats, pour over 2.5 cups of hot water, add salt, a slightly creamy oil and raisins to taste. Then the pan should be covered and put in the oven. Finished porridge should be soft. It must be mixed and a little more oil added. When serving, add sugar to taste.

Porridge with feta cheese or cheese

It is very tasty to eat corn porridge with brackish feta cheese. To do this, you need to boil a glass of cereals (you can in the oven, as in the previous recipe, but you can in a saucepan, the main thing is that it becomes soft). In the porridge you need to add sugar, so that it becomes sweet enough. Then you need 100 g of feta or cheese to grind and sprinkle porridge on them already in a plate. The combination of sweet and salty is very spicy.

Croup of corn: recipes of casseroles

Porridge from this cereal is very tasty, if you make a casserole out of it.

Casserole with cottage cheese

600 g of cottage cheese needs to be wiped through a sieve to become quite small. Add 4 egg yolks, 100 ml of milk, 20 g of cream butter, 60 g of sugar, a little vanilla, 50 g of flour, 30 g of raisins (or more like walnuts), mix well, and then gently add 4 whipped In the foam protein. This fragrant mass should be put in the saucepan, previously sprinkled with breadcrumbs, and bake. When serving on the table you need to pour sour cream.

Casserole with corn, minced meat and vegetables

100 g corn grits pour in 400 ml of boiling meat broth and cook for 15 minutes. One stale bun is soaked in water, wring out and crush by hand. Mix it with 1 egg and half a kilogram of pork-ground beef. Season with pepper, salt and nutmeg.

Put the porridge in a mold, top with minced meat and bake for about half an hour. Meanwhile, 100 g of carrots cut into small pieces and boil along with 200 g of green peas in 100 ml. Broth. Put the carrots and peas on the ground meat, sprinkle the top with rubbed cheese gouda (200 g) and bake for another 10 minutes.

Groats of corn: recipes for baking

MCHADY (flat cakes)

Two glasses of corn grits need to be washed, add salt and gradually, gradually add hot water to it and knead it. Mix with a spoon first, and when it becomes plastic, start kneading with your hands like a regular dough. The ideal dough for mchady should be sticky. Then from it, again with your hands, you need to separate small pieces and form cakes (their thickness should be no more than a centimeter). In a frying pan you need to heat sunflower oil and on it to fry cakes from both sides (they should be covered with a ruddy crust). To make flat cakes do not turn out to be fat, put them on napkins so that the oil is absorbed. The last step is to cut the ready-made hot cakes along and put inward thin pieces of cheese, for example, suluguni. It slightly podtaet from hot cakes, and get a very tasty dish!

Pie with curdled milk

200 g of corn flour should be mixed with a pinch of soda. Another 200 grams - with a spoonful of sugar, two glasses of curdled milk, 3 eggs, a spoonful of butter and a pinch of salt. Mix thoroughly and mix both mixtures. Put this dough on a baking tray and bake for 40 minutes. You will get a delicious low-fat cake. It can be served with sour cream or with jam.

I hope, now you will not have a question, what to cook from corn groats!