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Blending 101: How to Make Fresh Cornmeal

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HOW TO MAKE CORN MEAL

Making your own cornmeal in a high power blender that can handle dry goods is fast, inexpensive and healthy.

The boxes you buy at the grocery store are costly and contain preservatives.

With a good blender, such as 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 high powered 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 Cornmeal


Course: Grinding
Author: Blender Babes
Ingredients
  • 1/4 to 2 cups unpopped popcorn preferably organic/NonGMO
Instructions
  1. Place popcorn in the jar
  2. For Blendtec: Press the SPEED UP Button to Speed 10 and run for 50 seconds (full cycle)
  3. For 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.
  4. All done! Enjoy!! Now take a photo, rate it, and share your accomplishments! 🙂 Tag @BlenderBabes & #BlenderBabes
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CORNMEAL HEALTH BENEFITS AND FUN FACTS

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.

Tarashaun Hausner
Tarashaun Hausner
Tarashaun founded Blender Babes after discovering that high power blenders are a game changing tool for healing an unhealthy relationship with food. She offers programs and support to help people eat healthier, feel better, and heal themselves. Try her free juice detox! She also tests, reviews, and shares the best healthy lifestyle products, services and GIVEAWAYS with her blending-loving tribe. See all her videos on YouTube, join the fun on Facebook, share hers and their recipes on Pinterest, go behind the scenes on Instagram and add me on Google+

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  1. 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.

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    • Interesting Russell, I hadn’t heard that before. I still use cornmeal for recipes and it has turned out really well…

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    • Health Benefits of Corn-Based Food
      Whole grain cornmeal is a fair source of thiamin and magnesium.

      Cornmeal products made from dried corn, such as grits, polenta, and masa flour are also a good source of vitamin B6 and folate.

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    • Stick to empiracle studies. The internet is full of opinions, and when know what opinions are like (everyone has one). There are also tons of people who consider themselves nutritionist because they watched a few youtube videos and read a blog as well as learned a few buzz-words. As for the actual nutrion of Z. maize…

      A.-S. Hager, … E.K. Arendt, in Breadmaking (Second Edition), 2012

      Corn
      Corn (Zea mays) is the most widely grown crop in the Americas. Corn flour is composed of the endosperm, which generally contains between 75 and 87% starch and 6–8% protein (Shukla and Cheryan, 2001). Zeins, the storage proteins of corn, represent 60% of the proteins and are located in protein bodies (Lending and Larkins, 1989). Since corn is considered a gluten-free cereal, it can be used in the production of gluten-free bread. However, little research is available on the production of breads from maize. This may be due to the distinctive flavour and colour attributes (Arendt and Dal Bello, 2008a). Ács et al.

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  2. 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.

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    • 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

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  3. 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!!

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    • 3/4 cup regular cornmeal.
      3 tablespoons all-purpose flour.
      1 tablespoon baking powder.
      1/2 teaspoon salt.

      XOXO! HAPPY BLENDING!

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  4. you recommend soaking the kernels before grinding but you don’t say for how long. do you soak for a few hours or overnight?

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    • 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!

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      • There is no reason to use organic corn. Organic corn uses twice the resources to produce a bushel and is often sprayed with many more chemicals than conventional corn. There is NO evidence from any source that organic corn is superior in safety, nutrition or environmental impact. There isn’t a single case of harm from conventionally grown crops. Anti GMO is anti-science.

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        • There is actually lots of evidence that organic food is better for you than food that is laced with pesticide residues. And there are a number of studies raising serious questions about the safety of GM foods. And the idea that being opposed to a certain technology makes you some how anti-science is frankly laughable.

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