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Hominy recipes include pozole (a Mexican stew of hominy and pork, chicken, or other meat), hominy bread, hominy chili, hog 'n' hominy, casseroles and fried dishes. In Latin America there is a variety of dishes referred to as mote. Hominy can be ground coarsely for grits, or into a fine mash dough used extensively in Latin American cuisine.
Pozole (Spanish pronunciation:; from Nahuatl languages: pozolli, meaning cacahuazintle, a variety of corn or maize) is a traditional soup or stew from Mexican cuisine.It is made from hominy with meat (typically chicken or pork), and can be seasoned and garnished with shredded lettuce or cabbage, chili peppers, onion, garlic, radishes, avocado, salsa or limes.
Grits. Grits are a type of porridge made from coarsely ground dried maize or hominy, [1] the latter being maize that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization, with the pericarp (ovary wall) removed. Grits are cooked in warm salted water or milk. They are often served with flavorings [2] as a breakfast dish.
Mote (from Quechua: mut'i, through Spanish mote) is the generic name for several varieties of boiled grains, consumed in many regions of South America. It is usually prepared by boiling the grains in water made alkaline by the addition of ashes or lime, a process known as nixtamalization. It was also a staple food for Native American hunting ...
An 1836 lithograph of tortilla production in rural Mexico Bowl of hominy (nixtamalized corn kernels). Nixtamalization (/ ˌ n ɪ k s t ə m ə l ɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən /) is a process for the preparation of maize, or other grain, in which the grain is soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution, usually limewater (but sometimes aqueous alkali metal carbonates), [1] washed, and then hulled.
Menudo (soup) Menudo, also known as Mondongo, [1] pancita ([little] gut or [little] stomach) or mole de panza ("stomach sauce"), is a traditional Mexican soup, made with cow's stomach (tripe) in broth with a red chili pepper base. It is the Mexican variation of the Spanish callos or menudo.
Hominy (Osage: 𐒹𐓘́͘𐓨𐓘͘𐓵𐓣͘, romanized: Hą́mąðį – night-walker[4]) is a city in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. [a] The population was 3,565 at the 2010 census, a 38 percent increase over the figure of 2,584 recorded in 2000. [6] The town was the home of an all-Native American football team in the 1920s.
Corn tortilla. In North America, a corn tortilla or just tortilla (/ tɔːrˈtiːə /, Spanish: [toɾˈtiʝa]) is a type of thin, unleavened flatbread, made from hominy, that is the whole kernels of maize treated with alkali to improve their nutrition in a process called nixtamalization. A simple dough made of ground hominy, salt and water is ...