A recipe for lean corn tortillas

The traditional cornbread It's called mchadi in Georgia. This dish is prepared in at least three ways. Today we will share simple recipes of delicious corn flour cakes.



These flatbreads can replace bread, become an excellent snack for soups or a main dish along with vegetable salads. It will take a few minutes to prepare them and very few ingredients. You do not need to cook dough on yeast and wait for it to fit, and then bake. It's much faster and easier.



Mchadi on the water Ingredients
  • 300g cornmeal
  • 150 ml of water
  • 1 pinch of salt


Preparation
  1. Mix the flour with water and a pinch of salt.
  2. Mixed with elastic dough. Since there is no gluten in cornmeal, it will be crumbly. To give the tortillas the shape was easier, during kneading dough all the time wet your hands with water.



  3. Put the dough in a baking mould, cut the top like a pizza.



  4. Bake mchadi on the water in the oven heated to 200 degrees 20-25 minutes. You can also cook cakes in a dry pan.





It turns out lean corn bread, if you cook cakes without butter. If desired, you can cook them in vegetable oil, add greens for taste or serve with jam to tea. And cornmeal cakes in the oven Many housewives use kefir instead of water and add 0.5 tsp. soda.

Mchadi with cream Ingredients
  • 300g cornmeal
  • 150ml cream
  • 1 pinch of salt


Preparation
  1. Mix flour, cream and salt. You may need water to make the dough more elastic.
  2. Use your hands to form flat cakes. Do not forget to wet your hands in water to make it easier to sculpt the dough.



  3. Roast it. cornmeal cakes with vegetable oil up to the golden crust.





Mchadi are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Excellent cakes for lunch are cooked no longer than 10 minutes.

Mchadi with cheese Ingredients
  • 300g cornmeal
  • 250g sulugun
  • 1 egg
  • 80 ml of mineral water
  • 100g sour cream
  • 1 pinch of salt


Preparation
  1. Rub the cheese on a large grater. If there is no suluguni, and a regular hard cheese will do.



  2. Mix cornmeal and mineral carbonated water.
  3. Mix the egg with sour cream and add them to the dough. Stir everything thoroughly and salt a little.



  4. Add to the dough grated cheese and mix everything to uniformity.
  5. Form oval cakes, but do not flatten them.



  6. Roast the mocha and cheese in a hot pan with sunflower oil until golden.





To be honest, this is the most delicious version of corn flour cakes. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that these mchadi have their own name – chwishtari. More about how these delicious corn cakes are prepared, the hostess Mary tells on her channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=JGzQ-ny-F9c

I hope that you like the recipes of corn cakes and you will definitely try to make Georgian cakes at home. Why not? After all, their preparation takes no more than half an hour. And to prepare all three types.