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MAKE CORN MEAL
Making your own cornmeal in a commercial blender is fast, inexpensive and healthy. The boxes you buy at the grocery store are costly, and contain preservatives. With a Blendtec or Vitamix blender you can grind regular popcorn into fresh corn meal or corn flour, and use for baking such as corn bread, muffins, polenta, tortillas, tamales, or frying. Remember to minimum cover the blade of your blender, and make up to 2-3 cups at a time. If you make more than a recipe requires and wish to keep, store in a Ziploc bag in the freezer. Be sure the kernels are dry before grinding them in your Blendtec or Vitamix blender.
Note: When grinding hard grains, it may pit the BPA free jar interior, resulting in a “fogged” appearance. Blender Babes uses and recommends keeping one jar specifically for dry goods and one for all else – since cosmetic alternations are not covered under warranty.
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How to Make Fresh Cornmeal by @BlenderBabes
- 1/4 to 2 cups unpopped popcorn (preferably organic)
- Place popcorn in the jar
- Blendtec: Press the SPEED UP Button to Speed 10 and run for 50 seconds (full cycle)
- Vitamix: Use special dry grains jar. Select VARIABLE, speed 1. Turn on machine and quickly increase speed to Variable 10, then to high. Grind to desired degree of fineness, about 1 min.
- All done! Enjoy!! Now take a photo, rate it, and share your accomplishments! 🙂 Tag @BlenderBabes & #BlenderBabes
HEALTH BENEFITS & FUN FACTS ABOUT CORNMEAL
Many indigenous people used lime (the mineral, not lemon’s cousin) water in preparation of cornmeal. This was the tradition of early peoples, who probably had no idea what the many health benefits of doing so entailed.
Cornmeal is packed with many nutrients. This whole grain is a good source of riboflavin, pantothenic acid, folate, niacin, thiamine, and vitamins B-6, E and K. Cornmeal also contains 18 amino acids and minerals such as iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese and selenium.
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read about popcorn to corn meal nutrition. It is equivalent to eating
card board…. and has NO NUTRITION. This is written in several internet
sites.
Interesting Russell, I hadn’t heard that before. I still use cornmeal for recipes and it has turned out really well…
Can this be ground in a nutri-ninja? I wanted to make homemade corndogs and found the cornmeal I had in my cupboard was out of date.Thanks in advance for a reply.
The Nutri Ninja manual recommended to NOT blend dry goods – however in my testing I did blend rice flour quite easily in their Nutri Ninja blend and go cup just fine – you can see my results and other testing in this ninja vs nutribullet review. Since it did so well with flour I imagine it would do well with cornmeal too. I think the cups and/or blade are replaceable if the blade gets dull over time from grinding dry goods. Homemade corndogs sounds AWESOME and so much healthier! Love that idea! 🙂 HAPPY BLENDING! ~Tarashaun
I’ve been wanting to try this, but my recipe calls for cornmeal MIX which already has some additional ingredients added such as soda, salt and baking powder. Any idea how much of these ingredients should be added per cup of plain cornmeal to make a cornmeal mix?
Thanks!!
3/4 cup regular cornmeal.
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour.
1 tablespoon baking powder.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
XOXO! HAPPY BLENDING!
Thank you! I’ll give it a try!
Just wanted to let you know mine turned out great! Wish I could share my pictures too. I did post them on Instagram. @TenleyGreen Thanks again!
I’ll check it out Tenley! Glad it turned out well! XOXO HAPPY BLENDING!
you recommend soaking the kernels before grinding but you don’t say for how long. do you soak for a few hours or overnight?
Hey Joe I think that was an error. You want your kernels to be dry before grinding. Just be sure to use organic corn so it’s NON-GMO. 🙂 HAPPY BLENDING!
Wow! off to make Polenta NOW
We are going to try blending our corn meal into corn flour in our vitamix tonight. As far as I know, corn flour is just a finer version of corn meal. Can’t imagine life without an amazing blender!
Yay Kari! Isn’t it amazing! Grinding corn meal and corn flour in our blender was one of the first homemade flours we ever tried. Yes you are correct, the longer you blend the finer the grain will get, so your corn meal will make a nice corn flour in a minute or two. Let us know how it worked for you and what you made. 🙂
Just so happen to have some popcorn on hand. Put a 1/4 cup in my Blendtec and it came out perfectly. I also made the rice flour which was great too. Thanks!
Awesome Vandy! Thanks for sharing with our community! You’re reminding us of a jalapeño corn bread recipe we’ve been wanting to test! 🙂 HAPPY BLENDING!
Can this be done with a food processor or blender? Dont have a Vitamix and live on an island in the Philippines. Also, they sell corn here. They grill it, but seems more like field corn. Could I buy that, shuck it, dry a bit, blend and then dry some more?
It needs to be hard to make cornmeal. We’ve never tried this, but don’t think a regular blender or food processor are strong enough to grind. :-/ SORRY!
WOW! Now this is new to me…what a great idea I can only imagine what fresh tastes like!