Have you ever wondered how to cook corn grits? If you do not have children, then it is unlikely. Yes, and you probably cooked porridge with milk and nothing else for the children. And let's see what else can be cooked and what is the use of corn grits in general. Recipes from her dishes are presented below.
To begin with, the correct name for corn grits is maize. Her ancestral home is South America, and this culture itself is very ancient. Corn has a lot of useful properties, and most importantly, it has the unique property of not losing useful substances after heat treatment.
Corn grits: porridge recipes
Believe me, porridge from this cereal can also be prepared in very different ways. Let's start with the most common recipe.
Corn porridge: a classic recipe
4 large tablespoons of raisins should be soaked in warm water for 10 minutes. Rinse a glass of corn grits, pour 2.5 cups of hot water, add salt to taste, a little butter and raisins. Then cover the pan and put in the oven. Ready porridge should be soft. Mix it and add a little more oil. When serving, add sugar to taste.
Porridge with feta cheese or feta cheese
It is very tasty to eat corn porridge with salty feta cheese. To do this, you need to boil a glass of cereal (you can in the oven, as in the previous recipe, or you can in the pan, the main thing is that it becomes soft). Sugar must be added to the porridge to make it sweet enough. Then you need to grind 100 g feta or feta cheese and sprinkle porridge with them already in the plate. The combination of sweet and salty is very juicy.
Corn grits: casserole recipes
Porridge from this cereal is very tasty if you make a casserole from it.
Casserole with corn and cottage cheese
600 g of cottage cheese need to be wiped through a sieve to become very small. Add 4 egg yolks, 100 ml milk, 20 g butter, sugar 60 g, a little vanilla, 50 g flour, 30 g raisins (or walnuts — which you like best), mix everything well, and then gently inject 4 whipped into a protein foam. This aromatic mass must be put in a saucepan, previously sprinkled with crackers, and baked. When serving, you need to pour sour cream.
Casserole with corn, minced meat and vegetables
Pour 100 g of corn grits into 400 ml of boiling meat broth and cook for 15 minutes. Soak one stale bun in water, squeeze and mash by hand. Mix it with 1 egg and half a kilogram of ground beef. Season with pepper, salt and nutmeg.
Put the porridge in the pan, put the minced meat on top and bake for about half an hour. Meanwhile, cut 100 g carrots into small pieces and boil together with 200 g green peas in 100 ml. broth. Put carrots and peas on minced meat, sprinkle grated gouda cheese (200 g) on top and bake for another 10 minutes.
Corn grits: baking recipes
Mchadi (tortillas)
Two glasses of corn grits need to be washed, salted and gradually, gradually add hot water to it and knead. First mix with a spoon, and when it becomes plastic, start kneading with your hands, like a regular dough. The ideal dough for mchadi should be sticky. Then from it, again with your hands, you need to separate the small pieces and form flat cakes (their thickness should be no more than a centimeter). In a frying pan, you need to heat the sunflower oil and fry the cakes on both sides on it (they should be covered with a golden brown). To prevent the cakes from becoming greasy, put them on napkins so that the oil is absorbed. The last step is to cut the ready-made still hot cakes along and put thin slices of cheese inside, for example, suluguni. It will thaw slightly from hot cakes, and you will get a very tasty dish!
Yogurt Pie
200 g of cornmeal should be mixed with a pinch of soda. Another 200 g - with a spoonful of sugar, two glasses of yogurt, 3 eggs, a spoonful of butter and a pinch of salt. Mix everything thoroughly and combine both mixtures. Put this dough on a baking sheet and bake for 40 minutes. You will get a delicious low-fat pie. It can be served with sour cream or jam.
I hope that now you do not have a question what to cook from corn grits!