Liège waffles


Liège waffles
Liège waffles have a very distinctive texture: quite dense with the crunch of sugar crystals. They also have a characteristic form: round and fairly small. Then there's that special flavour that comes with the delicious light caramel crust.
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Last modified on: July 12th 2011
For 12 waffles, you will need:

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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 25 min.
Resting: 1 hour 30 min.
Cooking: 3 min.
All in all: 1 hour 55 min.
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Step by step recipe


Stage 1 - 1 min.
Liège waffles
Prepare 125 ml Milk.

Stage 2 - 15 min.
Liège waffles
Put into a food processor bowl: 250 g flour, 1 egg, 10 g caster sugar, 10 g vanilla sugar, 125 g butter, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon Bicarbonate of (baking) soda and 20 g yeast.

Stage 3 - 1 hour 30 min.
Liège waffles
Knead on slow speed and slowly pour in the milk.

Once evenly mixed, continue kneading on slow speed for a further 5 minutes.

Cover the bowl and leave to rest in a warm place for about 1 hour 30 minutes.plastic sheet

Stage 4 - 5 min.
Liège waffles
Heat the waffle iron.

Pour 150 g Pearl sugar onto the batter and mix well (you can do this with the food processor for 30 seconds).

Note: the sugar crystals are added at the last minute so that they don't dissolve. They add a little crunch to the inside of the waffle.

Stage 5 - 1 min.
Liège waffles
Make the waffles: pour a large spoonful of batter into each half of the lightly-oiled waffle iron and cook...

Stage 6 - 3 min.
Liège waffles
... until the waffles are golden brown.
Remarks
To bring out the caramel flavour, you can dust the batter with a little caster sugar just before closing the waffle iron.

If you don't have sugar crystals, you can use granulated sugar or crushed sugar lumps (use a hammer).

As always with regional recipes I wish to stress an important point: this should not be taken as "the" Liège waffle recipe, but just one among many.
Keeping: 1 or 2 days in a closed metal box.
Source: From the Internet, but dedicated to my son Nicolas, recently installed in Brussels.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe40 RDI=20 %410 RDI=40 %120 RDI=20 %2,720 RDI=140 %11,390 RDI: 140 %
Per 100 g5 RDI=2 %50 RDI=5 %20 RDI=2 %370 RDI=20 %1,530 RDI: 20 %
Per waffles3 RDI=1 %30 RDI=3 %9 RDI=2 %230 RDI=10 %950 RDI: 10 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man
Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Gluten, egg
How much will it cost?
  • For 12 waffles : 2.70 €
  • Per waffles : 0.25 €

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