California Farm Grown Corn Nixtamalized Tortillas

Name: How to cook California Farm Grown Corn Nixtamalized Tortillas - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 people, 16 tortillas
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Grown Corn Nixtamalized Tortillas

When corn was first imported into Europe, it made people sick. And when ground, the flour did not make dough. So it became animal feed. In the Americas, people thrived on it. Still do. The reason is that corn needs to be nixtamalized, that means the corn flour needs to have caustic added to become digestible, to make flour, to reduce mycotoxins 97-100%, and to grind easier. Mayans used, and still use, the ashes from cooking fires to add caustic. Commercial corn processors that make corn flour use food grade lime. If you grow and grind your own corn, you can use ashes or lime. We use oakwood ashes.

Ingredient

Food ration :

2 people, 16 tortillas

Cooking time :

Boil, Soak, Dry,Grind, make dough, fry.

1 quart

water to boil the large blue kernels

1 Cup

whole dried corn kernels, Mayan blue corn

1 cups

ashes, or

2 grams

food grade lye (1/2 level teaspoon)

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Cook large kernels and hour and half in alkaline water to nixtamalize. Done when you can squeeze the kernel with your thumbnail and it breaks. Let corn stand in the alkaline water 12 hours.

* Step 2

Drain, rinse, dry. Grind and make tortillas with the flour. Taste. If you are pleased with the taste, you can increase this recipe to make two pounds of flour at a time, eight cups. Enough for 64 tortillas.

* Step 3

Mix half a cup masa flour with half a cup boiling water and Tbs corn oil, mix, let cool, roll into four perfectly round balls. One ounce each. Press on tortilla press to make tortillas. To store in freezer, dust with masa flour and store in quart freezer bags.

* Step 4

Heat cast iron skillet to make soft tortillas for tacos. When hot, spray with oil, add tortilla, fry, flip, fry other side. Salt lightly with flaked seasalt, roll up, taste. To store in freezer, dust with masa flour.

* Step 5

Heat air fryer or oven to bake crisp brittle tortillas and tostadas. Bake frozen or fresh tortillas 15 minutes at 350F degrees in aluminum foil or on rack.