How to cook hominy?

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2024 Author: Arianna Cook | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:23

In this well, a very simple recipe, you will learn how to cook hominy correctly or, in another way, corn porridge and what it is better to eat with.

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Ingredients
Hominy recipe
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Many do not even know what this "hominy" is. Not to mention how to cook it correctly and with what to eat. Well, those who have already cooked this porridge once or twice have probably got a taste and cook it often, because it is both tasty and healthy, like other cereals. But before you start cooking, you first need to familiarize yourself with the cereal itself, for this read the article: "Mamalyga". There you will find out what varieties of it exist: there is just corn flour, there is a coarse section and medium. In this recipe, I will tell you how to cook medium-ground cereals (although you can cook other varieties in the same way).

Caloric content per 100 g - 327 kcal.
Servings - 6
Cooking time - 1 hour

Ingredients:

Medium-ground corn grits (hominy) - 2 cups (300 g)
Water - 5 glasses
Salt - 1 teaspoon (no slide)

Cooking hominy (corn porridge):

1. Mamalyga should only be cooked in a cast-iron cauldron! Pour 5 glasses of water into it, put a teaspoon of salt (without a slide) and put water to boil.

2. Pour 2 cups of medium-sized cereals into a bowl.

3. Stir the porridge into the boiling water a little at a time, stirring it with a spoon. It will thicken instantly, this is normal. After pouring everything in, stir well again.

4. Cook porridge over low heat without covering for 30-35 minutes. During cooking, hominy must be stirred twice.

5. Remove the prepared porridge from the heat and let it cool, do not eat it right away! Next, it is better to do as follows: melt butter in a frying pan (do not regret it) and put the required portion on it to warm up. Porridge in a frying pan should be kneaded well with a tablespoon. Hot and mashed hominy can be served as a main course.