Make these 3 Recipes Tastier with a Touch of Corn Flour!

If you are gluten-intolerant, try the gluten-free corn flour which helps in digestion, and controls weight loss and diabetes.

Corn flour is generally of two colours – white and yellow. The only difference between the two is white corn flour blends seamlessly with other flour to make cakes and pastries. The yellow corn flour leaves a yellowish tinge to the manufactured product.

When people search on the internet “corn flour buy online”, the result pages are pretty confusing.

So, don’t get confused between corn flour and corn-starch while you buy them online or from your local store. Corn-starch is a product made from processed corn and is used to thicken sauces. However, when you finely ground the corn to make it into flour, this is what you call corn flour. You can use corn flour in various recipes to bring a crunchier taste to them.

1. Butter Cake

Ingredients: Corn flour – 1 cup, powdered sugar – 1/4^th cup, butter – 3/4^th cup, milk – 1/4^th cup, baking powder – 1 tsp., vanilla essence – 1 tsp., egg – 1.

Directions: First, sieve the cornflour and baking powder, and keep them aside. Beat the partially melted butter, sugar, egg, and milk together until you get a creamy texture.  Then slowly add the sieved corn flour and baking powder into the creamy mixture. Pour the mixture in a tray. Preheat oven to 170°C before baking your corn flour cake for 40 minutes.

2. Halwa

Ingredients: Corn flour, water, sugar, ghee, cardamom powder, chopped nuts, lemon extract and orange food colour.

Directions: Add corn flour to the water and mix them well so that no lumps are there. Now switch on your oven and boil some water and sugar in the pan in medium heat. This is your sugar syrup. Add a teaspoon of lemon extract and the corn flour mixture to the syrup. Then add the orange food colour to bring the exact texture and colour of the halwa. Continue stirring until the mixture thickens. Transfer this mixture to a greased pan and let it cool. Your tasty corn flour halwa is ready in no time.

3. Butter cookies

Ingredients: Melted butter, wheat flour, corn flour, eggs (optional), baking soda, and salt (to taste).

Directions: Add the dry ingredients in the melted butter. Make sure the melted butter is not hot. If you prefer adding eggs, mix the butter and eggs well before pouring in the dry ingredients. Mix the ingredients to make the dough and ensure that its surface is smooth. You can add chunks of chocolates or cranberries in it as well.

Make smaller round-shaped dough from it. Put these in a greased tray and bake it in your oven. Enjoy the hot butter chocolate or cranberry cookies with a glass of milk.

Corn flour has high nutritional values. They are suitable for people who have heart problems or suffer from high blood pressure, and still can’t resist tasty food. The high fibre content in corn flour also releases good cholesterol in your blood.

The complex carbohydrate content helps you lose weight. Since corn flour takes a little longer to digest, your stomach remains full for a longer time. It, hence, stops you from eating unnecessarily.