This is a list of corn dishes, in which maize (corn) is used as a primary ingredient. Additionally, some foods and beverages that are prepared with maize are listed.

Ingredients Corn can be processed into an intermediate form to be cooked further. These processes include drying, milling, and nixtamalization. , a Chickasaw word meaning 'cold flour'. It consists of parched and pounded zea (maize) before it reaches maturity. A small quantity of meal is thrown into cold water, where it boils and swells as much as common meal boiled over fire.

Foods Soups, stews, and porridge Corn, in the form of cornmeal or kernels of fresh sweet corn, can be boiled or stewed.

Cachupa - Cape Verdean stew of corn, beans, meat or fish

Funche – Puerto Rican cornmeal porridge

Kānga pirau – Māori dish made of stepped fermented kernels, from New Zealand

Mămăligă with milk (usually, of cow, but also of sheep or goat), as the first course, and mămăligă with cheese and sour cream (or yoghurt), with a touch of salt (if preferred), as the second course – Romanian dishes for the poor, served usually on Friday and at lunch

Patasca - Peruvian hominy and meat soup

Tamales and related Tamales are a dish of nixtamalized maize that is ground, wrapped in a corn husk, and steamed. Tamales originated in Mesoamerica as early as 8000 to 5000 BC.Hoyer, Daniel and Snortum, Marty Tamales , page 8. Gibbs Smith, 2008. There are many regional variants and related dishes.

Breads and cakes Baked and steamed breads and cakes can be made using corn, often as a flour.

Mălai dulce AKA pollenta orange cake – traditional Romanian corn cake and dessert, from the Transylvania region

Tortilla dishes

Corn tortillas are used to prepare many other dishes.

Fried dishes Assorted fried snacks and other fritters are made from corn or cornmeal.

Other

Grontol – traditional meal from Central Java area of Indonesia made from boiled corn kernels that have been soaked overnight, and mixed with steamed grated coconut.

Suantangzi – fermented corn noodles from northeastern China linked to bongkrek acid poisoning.

Beverages Corn can be fermented into alcoholic drinks, infused as a tisane, or ground and used to thicken drinks.

See also

List of edible seeds List of Mexican dishes List of sweetcorn varieties

References