Belgian vanilla waffles
Cuisine: Belgian
Author: Maria Kalenska
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 15 mins
Total time: 30 mins


Ingredients
  • 110 g flour
  • 125 ml whole milk
  • 125 g butter, room temperature
  • 25 g sugar
  • 2 g salt
  • seeds of 2 vanilla beans or 2 tsp vanilla paste
  • 3 egg whites
Cooking method
  1. Sift flour into a large bowl. Pour milk into a saucepan and put on low heat. Heat the milk to about 40°C. Remove from heat. Add butter, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Stir gently until the butter melts. Pour the mixture into flour and stir with a spatula until smooth. Whisk the egg whites until they form stiff peaks. Carefully fold in the whites into the batter.
  2. Heat the waffle maker. Pour the batter into a measuring jug. Fill the waffle maker with the batter, pouring it in the centre of the mould so that it is evenly distributed after the lid is closed. Cook the waffles for 3-4 minutes. Transfer the waffles to cool on the cooling rack.
My tips and tricks
If you buy a waffle maker, then at first you will definitely cook sweet waffles often. You will eat them with whipped cream, ice cream, fruits and berries, condensed milk, melted chocolate, honey or jam. You will sprinkle them with icing sugar, cinnamon, and cocoa. But one day you will get tired of it. And then I suggest you start cooking savoury waffles and eat them with soft cheese, salmon, pâté, caviar, crème fraîche, pesto sauce, mushroom and zucchini dips or vegetable ragout. Add finely chopped herbs, ham, grated cheese or hot peppers to them. To make savoury waffles, exclude vanilla from the recipe and add 5g instead of 25g sugar. And when you get tired of making savoury waffles, just start making sweet ones again ;)

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