We are fast approaching the holiday entertaining season and what better way to kick-start the party-fun than with some tasty cornmeal tuiles! I first saw these beauties on lovely Lorraine’s beautiful blog in early spring, and I knew at first sight that they would be making an appearance on my blog. The yield is amazing, I got about 50 tuiles from one batch! Now that is economical. And they are tasty too. I will definitely make these tuiles again, thank you dear Lorraine.
Baked Cornmeal Tuiles
For the original recipe, please click here.
This recipe makes 50 chips about 9 cm x 7 cm (3 1/2″ x 2 3/8″)
Ingredients:
- 215 g plain fine cornmeal, not flour
- 40 g gruyère, finely grated
- 5 g salt
- 30 g unsalted butter, cubed and softened
- 250-500 mL water, boiling
- 2 g Herbs en Provence
- oil or non-stick spray for brushing baking sheets
Directions:
- Pre-heat the oven to 375° F (190° C). Put a Silpat mat on the baking sheet. Add the tuile template, if using. Brush or spray the Silpat liberally with a high flash point oil, like grapeseed.
- Combine the cornmeal, gruyère, salt and butter, mix well. Pour the boiling water into the cornmeal mixture and mix to a cream of wheat consistency. See notes.
- Spoon 8 mL (a heaped teaspoon) into the centre of each tuile template and spread out to the edges using an offset spatula. Bake for 8-10 minutes, then carefully flip over and continue to bake for an additional 8-10 minutes until edges have gently browned and they are crisp.
Notes:
- Lorraine specifically indicates not to put them on a parchment-lined sheet because that is what the original author suggested, but I like to live dangerously and tried it anyway—it didn’t worked out; I found that crisping took a lot longer because the parchment held onto the moisture. I found a happy medium by baking them on a Silpat matt brushed or sprayed with oil.
- I mixed everything together with my immersion blender because I wanted a slightly finer texture to the cornmeal and I wanted to break up the herbs a bit more.
- Confession: My chips were not curling beautifully so when I flipped them, I snuck a cannoli roll underneath each chip to give it curl.
- An Australian cup is slightly less than a North American cup, but I found the recipe worked out anyway. for the pictured recipe, I used 400 mL water.
- I reduced the salt by half and it was salty enough, but keep in mind that Gruyère is also very salty.
- Consider adding some other flavourings, such as granulated garlic or onion powder. I would add 5 g at a time and taste to make sure it’s not overpowering.
- I found that my tuiles shrank about 30% while baking so I increased the spoon drop to 8 mL (a heaped teaspoon) from 5 mL (a level teaspoon).
- I tried to make lovely, even ovals but was not able to get it right no matter how hard I tried, so I created a tuile template using a silicon matt (that I bought at the Dollar Store for $4) and an Exacto-knife and oval cookie cutter. It literally took me 10 minutes! Or you may buy a tuile template here. Make the template about 20-30% larger than you want your chip to be because they shrink that much!
- These make lovely little snacks when serving cocktails. These chips are deceptively sturdy and will hold up to any dip.
Love these tuilles Eva. I missed them on Lorraine’s blog but lucky I caught them here!
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Wow! They look so light and airy! I light steal your recipe for Christmas party (I always make “couch parties”, no table and chair sitting, so every new snack idea is welcome!).
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These are super fun Eva and they look pretty too – lively colour. Great use of the cannoli roll to create the curl – I first read ‘cannelloni’ and thought that sounds like my kind of kitchen hack 😉
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Fun recipe! And these would be wonderful with cocktails. These look SO GOOD! Thanks. 🙂
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Aww thank you for the kind words Eva! And yes I agree, the yield is amazing on these. Love the shape that you got on yours 😀 xxx
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I’m afraid if I made these I’d end up eating them all! And they’re so pretty! Love the idea of a savory tuile.
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They look very crunchy and I bet that you can’t stop eating them!
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These are gorgeous, Eva! What a treat to have homemade chips—especially these flavored with Gruyere!! YUM!
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