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masa harina/ fine corn meal - tortillas???

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the_other_mce
the_other_mce Posts: 731 Forumite
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Hi everyone, I want to make some CORN TORTILLAS but the recipes I have found say I have to use MASA HARINA (?). I only have fine corn meal flour (for cornbread, polenta). Can I use this or is it ESSENTIAL to buy masa harina? - will the tortillas be ok???
Thanks!!
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  • JayJay14
    JayJay14 Posts: 1,918 Forumite
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    the_other_mce wrote: »
    Hi everyone, I want to make some CORN TORTILLAS but the recipes I have found say I have to use MASA HARINA (?). I only have fine corn meal flour (for cornbread, polenta). Can I use this or is it ESSENTIAL to buy masa harina? - will the tortillas be ok???
    Thanks!!

    I think masa harina is just another name Masa - maize, harina - flour, so it should be ok.
  • Phudge
    Phudge Posts: 430 Forumite
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    Do you have a recipe please? I can't eat wheat so the usual flour wraps are out for me but I'd love to be able to make some myself!
    Penny
  • the_other_mce
    the_other_mce Posts: 731 Forumite
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    Sorry - the recipe I found was rubbish! I couldn't roll them out without them falling apart. I ended up flattening them (by hand) on an oiled baking tray, spraying with oil and baking them. Sprinkled them with sea salt & called them MEXICAN CRACKERS!! :rotfl:
    On the plus side my kids actually liked them and have been eating them all day!
    If anyone else has a recipe for corn tortillas that does work I would be grateful!
    :rotfl: :rotfl:
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  • Swan_2
    Swan_2 Posts: 7,060 Forumite
    edited 14 June 2009 at 7:52PM
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    the_other_mce wrote: »
    Sorry - the recipe I found was rubbish! I couldn't roll them out without them falling apart. I ended up flattening them (by hand) on an oiled baking tray, spraying with oil and baking them. Sprinkled them with sea salt & called them MEXICAN CRACKERS!! :rotfl:
    On the plus side my kids actually liked them and have been eating them all day!
    If anyone else has a recipe for corn tortillas that does work I would be grateful!
    it's probably not your recipe, my one & only try at making corn tortillas, quite a few years ago, ended up the same :(

    I think Masa Harina is different from ordinary polenta/corn meal & that's why it doesn't work, I've never been able to find any so never tried them again


    EDIT ... I've been Googling & it is very different (no internet when I first tried to make them :o) if you read the page HERE it explains the difference & advises against using wheat flour or cornmeal
  • the_other_mce
    the_other_mce Posts: 731 Forumite
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    Hi - thanks for that! At least I know that it wasn't me!! I wonder where you can buy MASA HARINA from though? - although I think I might have put myself off of making corn tortillas for a while.
    WOULD ANYONE LIKE A MEXICAN CRACKER ???!!!:rotfl::rotfl:
    :rotfl: :rotfl:
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  • champys
    champys Posts: 1,101 Forumite
    edited 15 June 2009 at 9:16AM
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    the_other_mce wrote: »
    Hi - thanks for that! At least I know that it wasn't me!! I wonder where you can buy MASA HARINA from though? - although I think I might have put myself off of making corn tortillas for a while.
    WOULD ANYONE LIKE A MEXICAN CRACKER ???!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

    You could phone the Mexican Embassy, ask for the Agriculture department and ask someone there who sells masa harina in the UK?

    editing to say I found an on-line supplier here
    "Remember that many of the things you have now you could once only dream of" - Epicurus
  • frivolous_fay
    frivolous_fay Posts: 13,302 Forumite
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    Random bump... I have 'maize meal' which I used once to coat something before frying. It's yellow, and has a texture similar to cornflour, but slightly coarser and with brown specks in it (no, not weevils :D)

    Any recipe suggestions?
    My TV is broken! :cry:
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  • nanokitten
    nanokitten Posts: 704 Forumite
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    anyone looked in the speciality section of one of the big supermarkets?
    If it's gluten free your after you could try using gram flour and making chapatis as I always think that taste very similar. However, The tortilla's you get in the supermarket in this country are often made with wheat flour (as probably are alot of chapatis).
  • nanokitten
    nanokitten Posts: 704 Forumite
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    Ok, I take it back, it looks like chapatis are made with wheat flour too (presumably a product of colonialism!).
  • jamesd123
    jamesd123 Posts: 1 Newbie
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    Why would a chapatti be a result of colonialism? Do you think that the British invented flour and took it to India?

    Flour is over 2000 years old, and so are unleavened breads such as chapattis and other flatbreads.
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