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Maseca Corn Flour, 4.4 lbs.

Maseca Corn Flour, 4.4 lbs.
From Maseca

Price: $7.79

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Product Description

Flour made from ground, dried corn. Ideal to make masa harina (dough) for tortillas, sopes and empanadas. Maseca Instant Corn Masa Mix is a product from Azteca Milling Co.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #989 in Gourmet Food
  • Brand: Maseca
  • Dimensions: 4.00 pounds

Customer Reviews

High Quality Corn Masa Flour5
Maseca Corn Flour, 4.4 lbs. is the real thing for making delicious tortillas. The only other ingredient necessary is water. Of course, a huge amount of technique is required! My son-in-law uses it to thicken his wonderful chili. He gave me the recipe, which I placed in Flavored with Love: Mary Lou's Family and Friends Can Cook. He's such a nice son-in-law. He would not want me to tell you this, but he is a great cook.

Maseca Corn Flour is made from ground, dried corn. It can be used to make masa harina (dough) for "tortillas, sopes and empanadas, enchiladas, pupusas, guaraches, arepas and atole," the manufacturer says. It is gluten free.

The manufacturer (the Gruma) company has been making this fine corn flour for over 50 years.

Gluten-free!5
Looking for a cheaper gluten-free flour? Look no further. They don't mill wheat, so it's gluten-free with no chance of cross-contamination--unlike virtually every other brand of corn flour out there, except Publix, which is only available in four U.S. states.

However, this is masa harina, not corn flour, so you can make tortillas, arepas, tamales and skillet corn bread with it...and not much else.

Edit: Masa Harina Socca

(With many thanks to Mark Bittman.) One and 1/2 cup water to one cup masa harina--let sit for several hours, covered. Preheat oven to 450. Find a flat cast-iron skillet without sides--like a flat fajita grill. (A regular cast iron pan with sides will concentrate the heat too much on the edges and burn the edges before the center gets cooked.)

Pour enough canola oil into the pan that it sloshes a little. Spoon the dough into the pan. Finally, put the pan into the preheated oven. Leave for an hour to an hour and a half. Flip halfway through. L'Chaim.