Corn: how to dry at home and how to cook it then?

Who is not familiar with corn? Everyone knows it from childhood, but not everyone knows its useful properties, as well as ways to harvest this queen of cereals. It is used not only in cooking, but even in the treatment of diseases.

Recipes of folk healers contain corn for medicinal fees and infusions. Now corn is used even in cosmetology, but of course the best way to use it will be to cook a tasty dish and eat it with the whole family.

Features

For every 100 grams of corn kernels accounted for 338 Kcal. This is a very high energy value of the product, but nevertheless corn is included in the diet, for people who want to lose weight and build up.

Its undoubted advantage is that it quickly creates a feeling of saturation in humans, which eliminates the further risk of overeating. In addition, it feeds a living organism with important vitamins and microelements, which are so necessary for a person, especially in urban settings, where it is difficult to find high-quality fruits and vegetables from autumn to spring.

Crop and other products for the winter will be an excellent way out. So why do nutritionists advise eating corn?

These are the properties that make this grass so valuable:

1. Micro and macro elements - iron, iodine, manganese, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, zinc.
2. Vitamins:
   • H (anti-inflammatory, eliminates skin problems and brittle nails).
   • PP (improves liver function, condition of hair and skin).
   • A (normalize vision, improves the condition of the skin and mucous membranes).
   • B1 (regulates carbohydrate metabolism).
   • E (necessary for the normal course of pregnancy, slows down the aging of cells, protects them from destruction, prevents oncology).
3. Acidsdue to which the level of cholesterol in the blood is regulated.

Beneficial features

When a person eats corn, the nutrients are quickly absorbed and begin to participate in the metabolism. The result of constant use of corn - the body does not have a deficiency of vitamins and minerals, increases resistance to stress, and it is in good shape.

Important! Corn has no contraindications, it can be used both for adults and children.

These are the most important properties of yellow cereal:

1. It has a mild laxative effect, which contributes to the normalization of intestinal microflora. Young corn will help cleanse the body of toxins and toxins, as well as heavy metal salts (how to cook young corn and how long it needs to be cooked, read here).
2. Corn starch is very important because it feeds nerve cells and forms muscle tissue.
3. Glutamic acid, a component that is useful for children, due to the fact that it improves memory and stimulates the brain.
4. It has a positive effect on the liver, as it has a choleretic effect.
5. It is useful for women - reduces menstrual pain and blinks easier to go through the period of menopause.

Options blanks

So how to dry it at home and what happens to the corn after drying? After you dry the corn it becomes hard and it can be easily stored all winter, without fear that it will spoil. Consider the various options for harvesting corn.

Basement and cellar

For the happy owners of a cellar or basement, the following method of drying with whole cobs is suitable:

1. We sort out the cobs, throw away the spoiled, leaves bent down strongly, but do not pick them off.
2. We tear off the corn stigmas - brown-green hairs.
3. Tying one by one on a rope, or weaving it into "tresses".
4. We hang to where air does not stagnate, but is in motion.
5. We check for readiness - if the grain, when shaken, is sprinkled from the cob, the corn has dried.
6. Knock the grains out of the corn and fold them into canvas bags, or into hermetically sealed containers.

In the apartment

Residents of apartments, of course, also want to have dried corn kernels in their blanks so that in winter they can cook dishes from the yellow beauty.

Tip! The apartment is not so much space as in the cellar, so the best place for drying would be a loggia or a balcony, where you can also hang the cob.

Another way is drying in the oven, for this you need:

1. Sprinkle the washed seeds, from which excess moisture has been removed, with a layer of 3 cm on a baking sheet lined with parchment.
2. Set the temperature to 100 ° and hold until full readiness for half an hour.
3. After that, remove and leave to cool in air at room conditions until the final drying.

Convective drying

1. Hold the corn kernels at the bottom of the colander for 10 seconds over the steam. This will preserve the bright color of the corn.
2. Lay out a thin layer on the surface of the dryer tray.
3. Enable heating at a temperature of 45-60 °.
4. After 10-12 hours the corn will be ready for storage.

Before using this device, read the instructions.

Popcorn Maker

To make popcorn, you just need to get it out of the freezer, put it on a hot frying pan and cover with a lid. A tasty and healthy product will be ready in a couple of minutes.

Corn silk

1. We collect them from summer, young, dairy corn.
2. Lay out on paper in a ventilated area, or in an electric dryer (at a temperature not exceeding 40 degrees) or in an oven with the door fully open.
3. Pour dried stigmas into canvas bags.

For drying, only those fibers that are inside the leaves are suitable. Black tops remove.

How and how much to cook dried corn?

1. Pour the grains with water so that they are slightly covered with it.
2. Boil 10 minutes.
3. Add a little water and continue cooking, adding small portions of water every 1-2 hours.
4. At the end of cooking add oil.
5. You can also soak the grain in water overnight. Then the corn will have to cook for just an hour.

Corn is a very tasty and healthy dish that will delight the whole familyand even children will not be able to resist him. Choose the most suitable method of preparation for yourself, because drying the corn allows you to store the grain for several years.

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