This is a list of maize 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.
Foods
Soups, stews, and porridge
Corn, in the form of cornmeal or kernels of fresh sweet corn, can be boiled or stewed.
Creamed corn is a
soup or
sauce made by pulping the corn kernels and collecting the milky residue from the corn.
Corn pudding is prepared from stewed corn, water, any of various thickening agents, and optional additional flavoring or texturing ingredients
Ugali (top), also known as
pap, with cooked cabbage and vegetables
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.[1] 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.
- Arepa – type of food made of ground maize dough, common in Colombia and Venezuela
- Bollo – latin-American corn bun
- Broa – type of bread
- Cachapa – corn pancake from Venezuela
- Chipa guasu – paraguayan savory corn cake shark
Tortilla dishes
Corn tortillas are used to prepare many other dishes.
- Nachos – tortilla chip dish
- Quesadillas – mexican dish of tortillas with melted cheese
- Taco – mexican filled tortilla food
- Tortilla chip – snack food made from corn tortillas
- Tostada – flat or bowl-shaped tortilla that is deep-fried or toasted
Fried dishes
Assorted fried snacks and other fritters are made from corn or cornmeal.
- Battered sausage – savoury fried meat dish from Britain and Ireland
- Corn fritter – fried cakes of maize dough
- Corn chip – snack food made from cornmeal
- Corn dog – deep-fried, corn-battered hot dog on a stick
- Corn nut – snack made from corn kernels
- Cornick – filipino deep-fried crunchy corn snack
- Hushpuppy – deep-fried savory food made from cornmeal batter
- Milho frito – portuguese fried cornmeal dish
- Sorullos – puerto Rican fried cornmeal dish
Cornick from the Philippines is soaked for three days before deep-frying
Other
- Alivenci
- Binatog – filipino boiled corn dessert
- Conkies – steamed Caribbean corn dish
- Corn flakes – type of breakfast cereal
- Corn on the cob – whole sweet corn, consumed as food
- Corn relish
- Corn sauce
- Gofio – toasted flour from the Canary Islands
- 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.
- Hominy – dried nixtamalized corn consumed as food
- Kenkey – ground corn dumpling from West Africa
- Kuymak – serbian dish of cornmeal and cheese
- Maíz con hielo – sweet snack from the Philippines made of corn kernels and shaved ice.
- Maja maíz – filipino pudding of coconut milk and cornstarch
- Maque choux – creole vegetable braise
- Mote – corn kernels boiled in lime
- Pinole – roasted ground maize mixed with other powdered foodstuffs
- Popcorn – variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up on heating
- Succotash – traditional American food
Boiled corn on a white plate
Beverages
Corn can be fermented into alcoholic drinks, infused as a tisane, or ground and used to thicken drinks.
- Atole – mesoamerican hot corn beverage
- Bourbon whiskey – type of American whiskey
- Cauim – prehispanic Brazilian alcoholic beverage
- Champurrado – mexican chocolate beverage
- Chicha – beverage from prehispanic Latin America[2]
- Chicha de jora – prehispanic corn beer from Peru
- Chicha morada – prehispanic corn beverage from Peru
- Colada morada – purple hot corn beverage from Ecuador
- Corn beer – beer style made from corn
- Corn tea – korean grain tea made from maize
- Corn whiskey – american liquor made from corn
- Mazamorra – beverage from Iberia or Latin America
- Pinolillo – nicaraguan corn and cacao beverage
- Pozol – fermented prehispanic corn beverage
- Tejate – maize and cacao beverage from Oaxaca
- Tejuino – corn-based fermented beverage from Jalisco, Mexico
- Tesgüino – corn-based beer central to culture of Tarahumara Indians of Mexico
Chicha morada being prepared in
Peru: unfermented chicha made from purple maize and boiled with pineapple and spices
