Celebrate A Party with Homemade Waffle & Maple Syrup

Waffle is directly derived from the Dutch ’wafel’and with ancient origin tracing back to the neolithic age. A waffle is a batter-based or dough-based cake cooked in a waffle iron patterned to give a characteristic size, shape and surface impression.

Waffles are eaten throughout the world, particularly in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and the United States.

My first experience with waffles was when I had it in the US and can never forget its wonderful crispy texture with the tasty maple syrup. Recently my SIL gifted me a waffle maker which are available in India too. It fired me up to prepare the waffles at home.

The perfect combination is to have waffles with a spoonful of maple syrup. In India maple syrup is expensive so I found a alternative recipe on the internet courtesy to Peggy on About.com which tasted as good.

So celebrate a waffle party with your family

Ingredients for Homemade Maple Syrup Substitute

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1 teaspoon maple extract or vanilla extract

Preparation:
Place granulated sugar in a heavy skillet. Heat until the sugar melts and turns brown.

Meanwhile, place brown sugar into a heavy saucepan. Pour water over brown sugar and bring to a boil without stirring.

Add caramelized white sugar to the melted brown sugar in the saucepan. Simmer, stirring often, until syrup is thickened.

Remove from heat, and whisk in butter and maple or vanilla extract. 

Waffle Ingredients

• 1.5 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 3 eggs seperated
• 3 tbsp butter melted
• 2.5 cup milk
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking powder

Seive the dry ingredients together and keep aside

Seperate the egg white and egg yolk, beat the egg yolk along with butter and milk till it blends

Mix the above dry ingredient to it and make a smooth paste.

Now beat the egg whites in a medium speed till small peaks form

Now add the egg white to the batter and fold it carefully with spatula until it gets incorporated. Dont fold too much

Heat the waffle maker and pour a scoop of batter in each segment and close it. Let it cook until the waffle maker gives the green indication or until it turns golden brown, it will take approximately 7-8 minutes per session

Note:
1. You can replace the butter with oil

2. Batter should be mildly flowy

3. You mix chocolate chips with the batter and make chocochip waffle.

Corn Burger With Fresh Herbed Wholewheat Buns

The American culture is synonymous with fast food. Burgers are easy to pack and carry along on short trips filling you up with energy. Children would love it and this burger has a healthy twist

Burger bun preparation

Ingredients

• 2 cups wholewheat flour
• 1 tbsp yeast
• 1 tsp sugar
• 4 tbsp warm milk
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 cup warm water
• 1 tsp chopped garlic
• 1/2 tsp dry oregano
• 1/2 tsp dry parsley
• 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
• 1 tbsp coriander chopped / cilantro
• 3-4 tbsp milk (for brush)
• 1/2 tsp sesame seeds to sprinkle

Step 1: Making the Dough

In a big bowl add yeast,sugar,salt n warm water let it sit for 10 min. It will become foamy. Then add oil , milk,chilly flakes,chopped garlic and chopped cilantro n all dry herbs and mix nicely. Then add flour slowly 1/2 cup at a time n stir with spatula. Then take it out of the bowl n on a lightly floured surface knead it for 5 min n then make it into a ball. Grease it with oil then put it in a bowl n cover with a damp cloth n let it
sit for 1 hr or till it become double .

Step 2: Shaping
After a hour or till the dough become double.Take it out n punch it in the center to take all the air out.Now divide the dough into six parts n shape it into six to eight balls accordingly n let it sit for another 30 min in a warm to proove.

Step 3: Baking

Preheat the oven at 210 celsius , brush the buns with milk and sprinkle some sesame and bake these buns for 15 min or till they golden brown. 

Once burger buns cools store in airtight container. It will last for 4 days.

Preparing the corn cutlets

Ingredients

• 1 cup fresh / frozen corn
• 2 bread slices
• 2 tbsp chopped mint
• 2 tbsp chopped coriander
• 1 inch ginger
• 1 green chilli
• 1/2 tsp garam masala
• 1/2 tsp amchur powder
• 2-3 tbsp milk
• oil for frying
• 1/2 tsp fennel seeds/sauf
• salt to taste

Boil the corn and make a coarse paste and keep aside. Make a fine paste coriander,mint,ginger and green chilli and keep aside

Break the bread slices roughly and grind in a mixie for a few second to get bread crumbs

1 tsp oil in a pan add fennel seeds once it crackles and the above prepared coriander paste and fry for a minute. Then add the sweet corn paste and all the masala and mix nicely.Switch off the flame.

Once it cools add the bread crumbs and mix nicely if the mixture is dry add little milk.Now divide it into medium size balls and shape it into a patty. Head a little oil and shallow fry each patty on both the sides till golden brown.

Preparation of Hari Chutney

•     1 cup cilantro
•     1/2 cup mint leaves
•     1 tsp lemon juice
•     1/2 tsp cumin seeds
•     2 green chillies
•     2 garlic pods
•     salt to taste

Make a fine past of above ingredient,check the consistency add water if needed. Hari chutney is ready to use

Assembly of burger

Ingredients

• 6 burger buns
• slices of onions
• slices of tomatoes
• slices of cucumber
• 6 corn patty
• 6 tsp hari chutney

Slice the burger bun horizontally.Lightly butter and toast on a pan till crisp on both the sides. 

Take one half of bun on the serving plate, then put a tomato slice,cucumber slices,onion slices,corn patty, 1 tsp hari chutney and cover with top half of the bun on the top.

Serve hot.

Note:  

1.To make it more flavorful feel free to add, cheese slice, mayonnaise, mustard sauce, lettuce leaves 

2.While making buns yeast proofing is very important if it is not activated properly then discard and again try the yeast proofing otherwise all your efforts will go to waste.

3.To check if the  buns are baked properly or not tap the bottom of bun and it should sound hollow.