Hoecakes not only are tasty in itself, but also are good with various fillers. Try to make thin Mexican tortillas in which it is possible to inwrap any stuffing or dense Latin American sauce. Or make thick flat cakes of corn flour according to recipes of the Caucasian cooks.
Hoecakes in Mexican "Tortillas"
Ingredients:
- 250 g of corn flour; - 170 g of wheat flour;
- 50 g of a desi; - 1 cups of water; - 1 tsps of salt. Get a desi from the fridge for half an hour prior to cooking. Sift corn and wheat flour through a sieve and connect them in one bowl. Add the softened oil, salt there, quickly mix and pour in the small portions in hot water, kneading dough. You knead it to elasticity, then divide into 6-8 parts and thinly roll.
Cover tortillas with damp fabric while you prepare a stuffing (cheese, meat, vegetables and so forth) that they didn't dry up.
Give to each layer the correct round shape, having imposed the turned plate of the necessary diameter and having cut off superfluous a sharp knife. You stick together one more or two lumps from offcuts and make additional tortillas. Heat a frying pan and fry hoecakes for 30 seconds from each party without oil addition.
Hoecakes with cheese a la "Khachapuri"
Ingredients: - 300 g of corn flour; - 1.5 tsps of baking powder; - 1 cups of sparkling water; - 1 egg; - 3 segments of garlic; - 200 g of a hard cheese; - 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Mix flour with baking powder and sparkling water, knead dough, cover it with a clean towel and leave for 10-15 minutes. Meanwhile grate cheese and the garlic peeled from a peel on a small grater. Implicate both prepared ingredient and also 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a flour basis of flat cakes and knead everything together.
Spread out flat cakes on a dense paper towel after preparation, and it will absorb excess fat.
Having divided pliable dough fingers on 8-10 of equal parts, at first roll from them balls with a diameter of 3-4 cm, and then flatten out everyone to thickness no more than 1 cm. Lay out flat cakes in the warmed vegetable oil (2 tablespoons) and fry on average fire 5 minutes from each party.
Hoecakes in Georgian Mchadi
Ingredients: - 300 g of corn flour; - 0.5 cups of milk from 3.2% of fat content; - 0.5 cups of water; - 30 g of a desi; - sugar pinch; - 0.5 tsps of salt; - 50-70 g of suluguni; - vegetable oil. Mature butter half an hour at the room temperature. Warm up milk and water to 40-45oC in one ware, pour corn flour, sugar and salt, put the oil which became soft and mash dough hands. It has to turn out a little damp that didn't crack when frying. If it not so, pour a little water or milk and knead again. Create thick flat cakes as in previous recipes and prepare them in vegetable oil. Eat them just like that or knife still hot sharp lengthways and enclose in everyone a slice of suluguni.