Belgian (Liege) Waffles
This treat is not your average breakfast waffle, its richer and crispier thanks to the wonderful addition of pearl sugar!
The dough is different than the American waffle batter, thanks to the addition of yeast, this is more of a bun and less like a fluffy cake.
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Ingredients:
300g A.P. flour
125g unsalted butter
125ml whole milk
30g sugar
20g fresh yeast
1 large egg
100g sugar pearls
Pinch of salt
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
8x90g balls (waffles)
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST AUTHENTIC AND DELICIOUS LIEGE WAFFLES - Expertly cooked by a real Belgian
This video shows you how to make delicious waffles, but not just any Waffles, Liege waffles which happen to be my favorite and are extra sumptuous thanks to the delicious pearl sugar that is caramelized inside of them.
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Liege Waffle Recipe: 12-16 count
4 Cups of all purpose flour
3 Tablespoons of brown sugar
4 Teaspoons of Active dry yeast
1 Teaspoon of salt
Stir To Combine
2/3 Cup of Luke warm water
2 Teaspoons of Vanilla Extract
6 Eggs
2 Cups of Butter and melt it in a pan.
Let it cool off before mixing in the dough one last time.
Cover With Towel and let it rise for at least 90 Minutes
2 Cups of Pearl Sugar, mix it in with the dough
Let it rise for at least another 15 Minutes
And voila you are ready to heat up your waffle iron and cook these babies.
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When I bake I personally like to make larger batches. Waffles can easily be frozen to stay fresh and heated back up within literally a couple of seconds in the microwave or toasted in just about the same time as you’d toast a regular slice of bread.
As for the ingredients, it’s actually pretty simple. As a small note, I’m aiming to make between 14 to 16 waffles, but if you want to make a smaller batch, let’s say only 8 waffles, just use half the quantities that I am using in this video.
First, start by taking out a large bowl and then use a measuring cup in order to measure 4 cups of all-purpose flour. In the same bowl add 3 tablespoons of brown sugar and 4 teaspoons of Active dry yeast and finally add a teaspoon of salt. Owning a set of spoons that have the perfect measures will really make this recipe much easier. Once you’ve put these initial four ingredients in the bowl you can star stirring everything to combine. I do recommend having an electric hand mixer since it does make the process super easy, but doing it by hand using a spoon isn’t too hard either. While you are mixing add 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and 2/3 cup of luke warm water. Do take note that the water needs to be lukewarm or even room temperature. Using hot water will actually kill the yeast. Reminder Yeast is alive. They are actually single-cell organisms. Using lukewarm water will help activate them and make the dough rise.
Now that everything is nice and mixed take six eggs, break the eggshells and combine the whole egg with the dough. Before mixing take two cups of melted, put it in a pan and let it melt thoroughly. Once melted, let it cool down for 15-20 minutes and then add it to the bowl with the mixed dough. Again, don’t add scorching hot butter, it’ll kill the yeast. We wanna keep them alive so that they can do their thing. Now that everything is mixed that your hand mixer or big spoon and continue mixing until everything is nice and blended. You should end up with a super wet and sticky dough. Now simply cover the bowl and let it rise for at least 90 minutes. Once that is done it’s going to be time to put in your pearl sugar. Now, some grocery stores have it some times but I personally prefer just getting some on Amazon and having it shipped to my house. It’s extremely inexpensive and a very important ingredient to Liege Waffles. Regular sugar will not blend the same way. Once you have the pearl sugar, mix 2 cups of pearl sugar with the dough and mix. This can easily be done with a wooden spoon. It really doesn’t take much effort to mix in this last bit of sugar. Let the dough rise for another 15 minutes and we’ll finally be able to heat up the dough into Liege Waffles. While the dough is rising, it’s a good time to take a Belgian Waffle iron and let it pre-heat for at least 10 minutes. If you’re wondering where to buy an iron, I once again recommend Amazon. It’s just convenient to get it from there. After all we already got the pearl sugar online. Traditionally Liege waffles are supposed to be circular but if you want to make them squared I’m sure they’ll be just as delicious. I like the circular shape so I tend to only use the middle part of my iron and heat 1 waffle at a time. I do recommend making little balls out of your dough simply because it’ll give you a better idea of how many waffles you end up with. If you don’t do that you might end up making huge waffles and making way less than you had anticipated. It really doesn’t take much dough in order to make a waffle.
As you can tell, the recipe is pretty simple. I’m really not a specialty chef. I’m just a Belgian living in America who really misses his Liege Waffles.
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Ingredients
1 ½ cups (225 g) all-purpose flour
2 Tbsp (25 g) granulated sugar
1 Tbsp (9 g) baking powder
½ tsp (2.5 g) fine salt
1 ¼ cups (310 mL) buttermilk
½ cup (125 mL) vegetable oil
2 large eggs, separated
1 cup (175 g) chocolate chips (optional)
Maple syrup and fresh berries, for serving
Directions
1. For the waffles, stir the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together. In a separate bowl, whisk the buttermilk, oil and egg yolks together. Add this to the dry mixture and stir gently until blended (but, like pancake batter, a few lumps are OK).
2. In another bowl, whisk the 2 egg whites (by hand or with electric beaters) until they hold a soft peak when the whisk or beaters are lifted. Fold these gently into the batter. Stir in the chocolate chips, if using.
3. Preheat your waffle iron according to instructions. Lightly grease the iron (if requested in the instructions) and ladle batter to fill the iron once closed (the first waffle is your test as to how much batter to use). Cook the waffle until lightly browned at crisp, and remove. Repeat with the remaining batter. You can make the waffles ahead of time and re-warm (oven, grill or toaster – not the microwave), since they are best served warm. Served drizzled with maple syrup and topped with fresh berries.
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How to Make Classic Restaurant Style Belgian Waffles
In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I will show you how to make amazing Classic Belgian Waffles, the kind you would find at a restaurant, only better! These homemade Belgian waffles from scratch are really easy to make, let's get to it. Enjoy!
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Ingredients:
2 cups of all-purpose flour - 240g
4 eggs (separated)
2 cups of milk - 474ml
2 Tbs of sugar - 25g
1/2 stick or 4 Tbs of unsalted butter - 60g
1/2 tsp of vanilla extract - 3ml
1/2 tsp of salt - 3g
2 tsp of baking powder - 8g
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Makes about 6 Large Belgian Waffles. The amount will vary depending on your waffle iron. You don't need a fancy waffle iron as I have, but since I make waffles all the time I splurged and got a nice one.
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Hello and welcome to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor. Today I am going to teach you how to make classic Belgian Waffles from scratch. Let’s get started. For the ingredients we need, 2 cups of flour, 4 eggs separated, 2 cups of milk, we need 2 tablespoons of sugar, we need a half of a stick of butter, which is about 4 tablespoons, we need a half of a teaspoon of vanilla extract, we need a half of teaspoon of salt, and we need 2 teaspoons of baking powder. So first, what we are going to do is we are going to take our sugar and we are going to combine it with our eggs. Great. Then we are going to take our mixer and we are just going to mix this together. Ok. Now what we are going to do is take our melted butter, and go ahead and add that, take our vanilla extract, and go ahead and add that. And let’s take our milk and go ahead and add that, and we will give it a light mix. Not too much, we are going to take our flour, and go ahead and add that, it’s ok if it doesn’t get all in there. Salt, baking powder, go ahead and just sift it. If you don’t have a sifter then don’t worry about it. Ok, and now I am just going to take a hand whisk and I am going to mix it together, instead of using a hand mixer for this part. Don’t want to over mix it. Get it so it is all nice and mixed together. Like that, great. Now the next part, is we have our egg whites here, and what I am going to do is switch out the attachment on my little hand mixer and get this little whisk, and I am going to whisk this until it is nice and mixed, until there are peaks formed. All right our egg whites are nice and mixed. And the reason why we have these separated is it is going to help make our waffles nice and fluffy. Ok then what we do is take our egg whites and we will just pour it in there. Ok, set that aside. We will take our whisk again and we are just going to barely fold it all in there, we don’t want to over mix it at all, we just want to lightly get it all folded in. Just fold it in, like that. And now our batter is ready to go, on to the next step. Ok, once our waffle iron is all heated up, we will go ahead and give it a good spray, with kitchen spray, alright, and we will get some batter here, this one has a little line on it, ok, we will go ahead and put it all over. Close it, turn it upside down, and wait until it is done. Mine has an indicator light when it is done and it will beep. All right it is ready to go, we will turn it back over, and open it up. Wow, look at that, amazing, and you just take a little fork like this, and grab it, and put in on your plate, and on to the next one. And you keep doing that until they are all done. All right our classic Belgian waffles are done. They were super easy to make, they came out super thick and fluffy, they look amazing. My toppings that I have on this one, classic maple syrup and powdered sugar.
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