How to cook dry hominy

Basic recipe and instructions for cooking dry hominy corn, called mote in Ecuador, from scratch.

Cooking dry hominy at home is easy and it tastes delicious in soups. It's naturally gluten-free, too. Makes about 4-1/2 cups of prepared hominy.

Instant Pot Hominy. How to pressure cook dried hominy. (Make sure to soak it overnight!)

What is hominy: A complete guide with tips, tricks, and information about hominy and the various ways you can use it in cooking!

[First published 10 September 2010. Updated 29 November 2021] What is hominy? Properly prepared, it is nixtamalised (alkali-treated), cooked dry corn (usually dent, but also flint/field corn) whose skins and germ have been removed. Its texture is luscious and its scent is rich and honey-like. Hominy is an essential part of pozole, a stew whose Aztec origins may have required as an ingredient chopped-up sacrificial warriors. Now, pork has to suffice. And for a vegan version I'd use roasted…

Hominy is like corn's quirky little cousin -- you can tell they're related, but they're nothing alike. Dried hominy is basically naked kernels of corn, or corn kernels soaked in a weak lye solution to remove their hull, bran and germ. You have to soak dried hominy to reconstitute it, and it needs to be ...

Cooking dry hominy at home is easy and it tastes delicious in soups. It's naturally gluten-free, too. Makes about 4-1/2 cups of prepared hominy.

Making hominy is yet another way Appalachians used dried corn for food. While it was a time consuming process-it added a little variety to their daily diets....

Now you may be asking, what is hominy? Fear not, for we've broken this down along with where it came from, how to cook it, and some helpful nutritional information.

You may have already seen hominy in Mexican or Tex-Mex cooking. It comes from corn, but it’s considered a grain. Let’s learn about it!rn