The healthiest food is simple and rough enough. That is why, despite the development of culinary human thought, as well as the food industry, we sometimes want to cook some very simple food, known to man since ancient times. By the way, the dishes cooked according to such relic recipes are the main repertoire of various diets, popular now and very effective.
For example, lozenges - this is exactly one of the most ancient dishes of mankind, since it learned to grind grain of various cereals into flour.
Tell you how to make tortillas from corn flour. Of course, we remember that corn is a fantastically useful and very common cereal crop, which came from America and was known to the indigenous population of these continents from ancient times. Corn cake - the main bread of pre-Columbian American civilizations - fell to taste and other people growing corn.
You can, of course, bake cakes from corn flour without adding wheat, but the dough with the addition of wheat flour will be much more elastic, it is more convenient to work with.
The easiest recipe for corn tortillas
Ingredients:
- cornmeal - 3 measures (for example, a glass);
- wheat flour high-grade - 1-1,5 measures;
- a little vegetable oil;
- a piece of lard;
- water hot and cold;
- common salt - 1 pinch;
- garlic;
- Red pepper;
- cheese brine (type of brynza);
- sour cream;
- greens are different fresh.
Preparation
We measure in a bowl of corn flour and steam it with a very small amount of boiling water. Stir, and let stand for 20 minutes to ensure the swelling of the particles. At the end of this time, add a pinch of salt to the bowl, 1 tbsp. spoon of vegetable oil and gradually pour the flour, while stirring (it is most convenient to do this with a fork). Add water, how much will it take to get a fairly steep dough (carefully weave it).
Now tell you how to bake corn tortillas. Well we warm up a large frying pan and grease it with a slice of fat (if you use vegetable oil - cakes will be roasted, on bacon they will be baked, so it will not only taste better, but also healthier).
We form from the pastry dough by hand or roll out with a rolling pin (they should not be too thick). Bake cakes with a rollover to a characteristic golden brown tinge. We serve ready ruddy corn tortillas with cheese (it can be cut into pieces or rubbed), with sour cream, seasoned with red pepper and garlic. We eat with greens with great pleasure. It would be nice to serve a mute table wine or rakia (as is customary in the Balkans or the Caucasus). Well, or serve corn tortillas in Mexican with tequila, mescal, pulque, beer or hot fresh mate.
Of course, with corn tortillas (as they are a separate dish and bread), you can serve different meat and fish dishes, as well as vegetable salads and fruits.
You can somewhat complicate the recipe and make them more nutritious and spicy.
Corn tortillas on kefir or milk
Ingredients:
- cornmeal - about 1-2 glasses;
- wheat flour - about 0.5 cup;
- kefir or milk;
- Chicken egg - 1-2 pcs .;
- common salt - 1 pinch;
- curry mixture;
- fat to lubricate the frying pan (slice).
Preparation
Fill the corn flour with a little kefir or milk and leave the minutes for 20-30 for swelling. When the flour is slightly swollen, add salt, egg, curry, sifted wheat flour and, if necessary, some more milk or homemade kefir . Mix a relatively steep dough, divide it into approximately equal parts and form (or roll out) flat cakes. Lubricate the heated frying pan with a piece of fat. We bake flat cakes with a twist to get a good brown on both sides.