Gluten-free cornmeal waffles

[nisaa]

I modified a recipe I found here:
http://breadbaking.about.com/od/flatandpocketbreads/r/cornwaffles.htm
All of the notes in parentheses are from me.

Makes about 4 waffles.
Ingredients:

* 3/4 cup cornmeal
* 1/4 cup gluten-free flour (I used Bob's Redmill GF flour, thanks to klwalton. This is the right amount for this flour in a waffle recipe. If you use it straight, you get a dense garbanzo flavored waffle that I call "falafel waffle")
* 1/4 tsp xantham gum (if your flour mix doesn't have any in it)
* 1 tbsp sugar
* 2 tsp baking powder
* 1/2 cup milk
* 1/4 cup butter, melted
* 1 egg, separated

Preparation:

1. In medium bowl, mix together cornmeal, flour, sugar, and baking powder.

2. In small bowl, mix together milk, butter, and egg yolk.

3. In another small bowl, beat egg white until stiff. (Note: A secret I learned about beating egg whites is that the bowl needs to be dry and cold so I stick it in the freezer for a few minutes.)

4. Begin heating waffle iron.

5. Add wet, milk ingredients into dry ingredient and mix well.

6. Fold in egg white.

7. Bake in waffle iron according to your model’s instructions.

8. Serve with butter and your favorite syrup.

(These waffles fall apart in your mouth in the very buttery way instead of the no gluten way. I almost ate all of them in one sitting but saved some for tomorrow's breakfast.)

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, the falafel waffles were pretty doggoned tasty, too. But then, I'm a big fan of falafel. (-:

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I think I really should try the falafel waffles someday with tahini and salad on top instead of maple syrup and butter and see how it tastes.

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

That may be an interesting idea!

Also those waffles sound lovely.

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

YOU are one of the reasons I post these recipes.

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

You are awesome darling!

[divineseduction.livejournal.com]

Given my diet changes, I am now FAR more interested in these kinds of posts. ;)

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Try tahini and honey (my own most common substitute for peanut butter, which I don't especially like). It would be YUMMY!

[divineseduction.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I bet you could use a nice millet/superfine rice as the flour blend, and have it taste quite tasty. I got some sorghum flour at the asian grocery not too long ago, only made one thing with it (that my body didn't like at the time), so not sure if it'd be good in this.

How important do you think the egg white whipping is here? It's a pain to break out the hand mixer as I usually do things by hand, but whipping egg whites isn't one of them.

Also, related, made a flourless chocolate cake thing last night. Not too bad. Texture was kind of strange, though. 16 oz chocolate (bittersweet ghiradelli for me - no dairy, less sugar), 1 stick butter, 5 eggs. Melt choco + butter. Whip egg whites to stiff peaks. Blitz egg yolks. Let choco-butter cool. Mix in yolks. Fold in whites. Bake for 20-25 mins at 375. Voila. From here. Thought it'd be a nice, hopefully safe-ish treat for me. In very small doses, it is.

And tangent - a falafel waffle could be a nice brunch idea... spice it up, make a tahini-maple dressing/syrup, something else to mentally bridge breakfast-sweet and lunch-savory... Can you tell I'm hungry? ;)

[divineseduction.livejournal.com]

*snerk* You had the same idea... (your comment to kightp above).

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

Great minds . . .

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how important beating the egg whites is. This is the first time I've made them according to this recipe. However, I have been known to be lazy in the past and just dump an unbeaten egg into a different waffle mix and they came out just fine. I'm not sure what beating the egg is supposed to do other than making it lighter (and maybe that's the point).

[rosrua.livejournal.com]

hum...perhaps a candadate resapie for the taiyaki?

[extraspecialk.livejournal.com]

9. Say 'falafel waffle' 10 x fast.