Maize dishes

Polenta (, ) is an Italian dish of boiled cornmeal that was historically made from other grains. It may be allowed to cool and solidify into a loaf that can be baked, fried or grilled.

Nachos are a Tex-Mex dish consisting of tortilla chips or totopos covered with cheese or chile con queso, as well as a variety of other toppings and garnishes, often including meats (such as ground beef or grilled chicken), vegetables (such as chili peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, and olives), and condiments such as salsa, guacamole, or sour cream. At its most basic form, nachos may consist of merely chips covered with melted cheese (usually cheddar or American cheese), or cheese sauce and served as an appetizer or snack, while other versions are substantial enough to serve as a main course. The d

Fufu (or fufuo, foofoo, foufou ) is a pounded meal found in West African cuisine. It is a Twi word that originates from the Akans in Ghana. The word has been expanded to include several variations of the pounded meal found in other African countries including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Angola and Gabon. It also includes variations in the Greater Antilles and Central America, where African culinary influence is high. Fufu's prevalence in West African su

type of breakfast cereal

A tamale is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa, a dough made from nixtamalized corn, which is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaves. The wrapping can either be discarded prior to eating or used as a plate. Tamales can be filled with meats, cheeses, fruits, vegetables, herbs, chilies, or any preparation according to taste, and both the filling and the cooking liquid may be seasoned.

An arepa () is a type of flatbread made of ground maize dough that may be stuffed with a filling, eaten in northern parts of South America since pre-Columbian times, and notable primarily in the cuisine of Colombia and Venezuela, but also present in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Central America.

Mămăligă (;) is a polenta-like dish made out of yellow maize flour, traditional in Romania, Moldova, south-western Ukraine and among Poles in Ukraine (mamałyga), Hungary (puliszka), Bulgaria (kačamak), the Black Sea regions of Georgia and Turkey, and Thessaly and Phthiotis in Greece.

deep-fried, corn-battered hot dog on a stick

Ugali, also known as posho, nsima, papa, pap, mogobe, sadza, isitshwala, akume, amawe, ewokple, akple, and other names, is a type of corn meal made from maize or corn or mahindi flour in several African countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Malawi, Botswana and South Africa, and in West Africa by the Ewes of Togo, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and Ivory Coast. It is cooked in boiling water or milk until it reaches a stiff or firm dough-like consistency. In 2017, the dish was added to the UNESCO Re

Cornbread is a quick bread made with cornmeal, popular in the cuisine of the Southern United States, with origins in Native American cuisine. It is an example of batter bread. Dumplings and pancakes made with finely ground cornmeal are staple foods of the Hopi people in Arizona. The Hidatsa people of the Upper Midwest call baked cornbread naktsi, while the Choctaw people of the Southeast call it bvnaha. The Cherokee and Seneca tribes enrich the basic batter, adding chestnuts, sunflower seeds, apples, or berries, and sometimes combine it with beans or potatoes. Modern versions of cornbread are

A pupusa is a thick griddle cake or flatbread from El Salvador and Honduras made with cornmeal or rice flour stuffed with one or more ingredients including cheese, beans, , or squash. It can be served with and tomato sauce and is traditionally eaten by hand. Pupusas have origins in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica but were first mentioned in 1837 by Guatemalan poet José Batres Montúfar. In El Salvador, the pupusa is the national dish and has a day to celebrate it.

Kačamak is a kind of maize porridge made in parts of Western Asia and Southeastern Europe. Its name is derived from the Turkish word , meaning 'escapade'.

Hallaca (, ) is a traditional Venezuelan dish. Its origin is indigenous, but raisins, capers, olives, and sometimes bits of bacon were added in the 16th Century and after by settlers from the Iberian peninsula. Hallaca consists of corn dough stuffed with a stew of beef, pork, or chicken and other ingredients such as raisins, capers, and olives, fresh onion rings, red and green bell pepper slices. There are vegetarian hallacas, made with black beans or tofu. Hallacas are folded in plantain leaves, tied with strings, and boiled. The dish is traditionally served during the Christmas season and ha

flat or bowl-shaped tortilla that is deep fried or toasted

gastronomic dish of Paraguay

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Sancocho (from the Spanish verb sancochar, 'to parboil') is a traditional stew in several Caribbean and Latin American cuisines. Latin variations represent popular national dishes in Dominican Republic, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. It usually consists of large pieces of meat, tubers and vegetables served in a broth.

Banush or banosh (; ; ) is a Ukrainian dish prepared from cornmeal with added smetana (sour cream), topped with pork rind, mushrooms, and bryndza. The dish is considered to be a part of Ukrainian cuisine, in particularly Hutsul. It is commonly served in Ukrainian restaurants as well as available in Ukrainian supermarkets, but it is especially popular in the Carpathian region in West Ukraine and Romania.

Ghanaian meal made from maize and cassava dough

A hushpuppy is a small, savory, deep-fried round ball made from cornmeal-based batter.

Punjabi corn flatbread

South American savory sweet corn pie

thumb|alt=Cheese dish in a copper pan|Kuymak in a sahan Kuymak or khavitz () is a dish popular in the Black Sea region that lies in northern Turkey. Its primary ingredients are cornmeal and cheese. It is typically served with bread and a spoon.

Broa ( or ) is a type of maize or rye bread traditionally made in Portugal and Galicia. It exists in somewhat different versions in Portuguese speaking countries like Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique. The Portuguese broas are either made from a mixture of cornmeal, rye, barley, wheat flour and yeast, baking soda or baking powder, or simply from rye and yeast. Before maize was brought from the Americas in the fifteenth century, broa was mostly made from rye. In Brazil, broa is more closely related to cornbread, likely a Native American influence, traditionally seasoned with fennel.

', or masamorra', (from , from , influenced by Spanish , 'dough') is the name for numerous traditional dishes in the Spanish and Hispanic American regional cuisines.

corn kernels boiled in lime

thumb|280x280px|Esquites Esquites (or ezquites) (troles and trolelotes in Northeast Mexico, chasca in Aguascalientes, vasolote in Michoacán, etc.) also known as elote en vaso (corn in a cup), also served in the Southwestern USA is a Mexican snack or antojito. One can find them at local markets, and street vendors selling corn. The word esquites comes from the Nahuatl word ízquitl, which means "toasted corn". thumb|National Museum- Caja de Mazorca de Maiz

Huminta (from Quechua ''umint'a), huma (from Quechua possibly uma head) or humita (possibly employing the Spanish diminutive -ita) is a dish that dates back to pre-Hispanic times. A traditional food, it can be found in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Argentina. It consists of fresh choclo (maize) pounded to a paste, wrapped in a fresh corn husk, and slowly steamed or boiled in a pot of water. In Bolivia, it is known as huminta and in Brazil as pamonha''. Humitas are similar to Mexican uchepos, or tamales colados, which are also made with fresh corn; but they are only superficially similar t

Mchadi () is a traditional Georgian cornbread traditionally eaten with lobio and/or cheese. It is common in Imereti. It is made by combining cornmeal and water into a patty and then frying it.

thumb|Woman preparing fante kenkey (boiled maize dough)

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A tlacoyo is a Mexican dish of pre-Hispanic origin made of masa. Tlacoyos are thicker than fresh corn tortillas and are stuffed with cheese, fava beans, cooked ground beans, chicharron, and other ingredients before being fried or toasted. Tlacoyos can be served as an accompaniment to soups and stews or as appetizers for celebrations. They are made in varying shapes, most being oval and some also triangular.

typical food of the Basque Country, similar to the corn tortilla of Mesoamerica, made of corn flour

thumb|right|upright|Totopo chips on refried beans

Johnnycake, also known as journey cake, johnny bread, hoecake, shawnee cake or spider cornbread, is a cornmeal flatbread, a type of batter bread. An early North American staple food, it is prepared on the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Jamaica. The food originates from the indigenous people of North America. It is still eaten in the Bahamas, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda, Canada, Colombia, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Saint Croix, Sint Maarten, Antigua, and the United States.

Pinole, also called pinol, is roasted ground maize. The resulting powder is then used as a nutrient-dense ingredient to make different foods, such as cereals, baked goods, tortillas, and beverages. For example, it can be mixed with a combination of cocoa, agave, cinnamon, chia seeds, vanilla, or other spices, to make a beverage called pinolillo. The name comes from the Nahuatl word pinolli, meaning cornmeal. Today, pinole is generally made by hand using wood-burning adobe ovens and a stone and pestle, and is still consumed in certain, often rural, parts of Latin America. Pinole is considered

thumb|Before rolling: an indent in the masa was filled with rice and seasoned pork, and then covered with potato, tomato, fresh mint, olives and a few raisins. thumb|Nacatamal with both banana leaf and aluminum foil wrapping A nacatamal (Nahuat: Nakatamal, Nakat "meat", tamal "tamale") (Nahuatl: Nacatamal, Nacatl "meat", tamalli "tamale") is a traditional Nicaraguan dish similar to the tamal and to the hallaca. Nacatamales have Mesoamerican roots, and originated from the Nicarao tribes who inhabited western Nicaragua, its name originates from the Nawat language and translates to 'meat tamale'.

Paraguayan savory corn cake

Kpekple (also referred to as kpokpoi) is a kind of food eaten by the Gas of Ghana during the celebration of the Homowo festival, which is to hoot at hunger. It is prepared with the primary ingredients of steamed and fermented corn meal, palm nut soup and smoked fish. Kpekple is usually sprinkled around by the chief believing that the ancestors would be pleased by the offering.

Elarji () is a traditional Georgian dish and a staple for the Samegrelo region of the country. It is prepared by kneading a large amount of sulguni cheese into a thick porridge (ghomi) made from cornmeal and flour. The dish is distinguished by its high elasticity and uniform structure.

Memelas, also known as memelitas, are fried or toasted cakes made of masa topped with different fresh ingredients eaten as antojitos or snacks in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala, and Puebla, Mexico, which have their origins in prehispanic food. They are similar to fresh corn tortillas, but are slightly thicker and usually shaped in an oblong oval. Memela is the local name for the almost identical sope and huarache served in other parts of Mexico, but with different toppings.

thumb|upright=1.1|Algarvian xarém, a dish from Portugal

thumb|right|Amiwo Amiwo is a traditional dish in Benin, consisting of a savory pudding made from spices (onions, garlic, black pepper, salt), cornflour and tomato paste, cooking oil or more traditionally palm oil. It is often served as a side with fried or grilled chicken or fish and a fresh tomato and onion relish. It literally translates to fat pudding.

stew from the southern US, containing tomatoes, beans, corn, okra, and game meat (squirrel, rabbit, possum, or substituted with chicken)

A bollo is a bun, common in Latin America, made from corn, yuca, or potato. Variations are found in the cuisines of Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba (tamal de maíz solamente) and Panama. Corn and yuca bollos are an indigenous food of the Caribbean coast of Colombia and Panama, where they are boiled in leaves. This preparation is similar to the humita of the Andes, the hallaquita of Venezuela and the pamonha of Brazil.

Mexican maize dish

Wotou or wowotou, also called Chinese cornbread, is a type of steamed bread made from cornmeal in Northern China.

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Aprapransa, originally called 'akplijii' (or 'akplidzi') is a Ghanaian Ewe dish prepared by heat mixing (or blending) roasted corn flour with palm nut soup.

thick stewed corn dish from the Southern United States

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Piki is a bread made from blue corn meal used in Hopi cuisine.

Motemei (from Spanish, moteméi) is a South American food made from shelled, cooked and peeled maize that is prepared as a dessert, stew or refreshment. The term in Spanish "moteméi" comes from the contraction of the words "mote" (in gastronomy, the generic name for various cereals or legumes cooked in water) and "maíz" (maize). thumb|Motemei.

savory fried meat dish from Britain and Ireland

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Githeri (Gĩtheri), also called muthere or mutheri, mûthekia-ngûkû is a traditional Kenyan meal consisting of maize and legumes (primarily beans) mixed and boiled together. The maize and beans are mixed in a sufuria, a type of pot, with water added, and the mixture is boiled until fully cooked.

A mandoca is a Venezuelan deep fried, ring-shaped food, made with a mix of plantains and cornmeal. It is usually served at breakfast, with butter, cheese and coffee. and it is most popular in Zulia and Falcón states of the country. Mandocas are one of a variety of specialties exclusively created in Zulia.