hominy
Sign in to saveHominy is a Mesoamerican food item produced from dried maize (corn) kernels that have been treated with an alkali, in a process called nixtamalization ( is the Nahuatl word for "hominy"). "Lye hominy" is a type of hominy made with lye. The word "hominy" comes from the Powhatan , literally, "that treated (in the way specified)."
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- Food.name
- Hominy
- Food.image
- Hominy (maize).JPG
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- A bowl of cooked hominy
- Food.place_of_origin
- Mesoamerica
- Food.region
- Americas
- Food.minor_ingredient
- Dried maize (corn) kernels, water, alkali
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Hominy is a Mesoamerican food item produced from dried maize (corn) kernels that have been treated with an alkali, in a process called nixtamalization ( is the Nahuatl word for "hominy"). "Lye hominy" is a type of hominy made with lye. The word "hominy" comes from the Powhatan , literally, "that treated (in the way specified)."
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