Winter dishes made from maize flourImage Credit source: cookwithharshi/virajnaikrecipes/naturallynidhi
In the winter diet, such things should be made a part of the diet which not only nourish your body but are also helpful in keeping your body healthy by keeping it warm from within. For this, different types of grains should be made a part of the diet. Maize is also hot in nature. Most people make maize bread, but apart from this you can make many tasty and healthy things from maize flour. Let us know what you can make from maize flour for winter.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, it also contains protein, fiber, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, folate, vitamin A (carotene beta, carotene alpha), lutein, zeaxanthin, and amino acids.
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You will like the traditional winter dish of Rajasthan, Maize Dhokla or Dhokla. Basic spices and green fenugreek leaves are added to it and after giving shape like medu vada, it is steamed. It is served with dal, chutney and desi ghee. Hot corn syrup tastes amazing.
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If you want to make comfort food from maize in winter, then you can make its raab which is easy to eat even for small children. This is a kind of soup. In which first the maize flour is roasted a little and then curd, basic spices and water are added to it and cooked till it thickens.
Make Corn Nachos
Children also like nachos very much, so you can make nachos with corn flour in winter. This is also a perfect snack for those on a gluten free diet. You can mix a little wheat flour and a little rice flour in corn flour. After this, add sweet soda, a little ghee, basic spices, curry leaves and knead it. After keeping it covered for some time, roll the roti and cut the nachos. You can either bake it in the oven or make it in an air fryer if you have one. Apart from this, deep frying can also be done, but this increases the amount of fat.
cornmeal dumpling
To make Dhebra, mix wheat flour with corn flour and add coarse ginger, garlic and green chilli paste to it. After adding some oil, salt, chopped fenugreek leaves and other spices, add grated boiled potatoes to it and knead a soft dough. Roll it out like a paratha, bake it and serve it with chutney. If you want, you can sprinkle some sesame seeds on it after rolling, which makes the Dhebra look very tasty after baking.
Make tasty halwa and eat it
In winter, you can make pudding of maize flour and eat it. For this, first fry the maize flour in desi ghee till the aroma comes and then heat water in a pan, add cardamom powder and sugar and let it boil. Add roasted maize flour in it and cook. When this halwa is ready, add desi ghee on top and add some nuts like cashew-almonds, chopped or crushed. If you take desi ghee in equal quantity as flour then this halwa becomes very tasty.