Naturelo Blue Corn Flour (Masa Harina) – 1kg

Naturelo Blue Corn Flour is a great ingredient to have if you love authentic Mexican flavours! This Harina de Maiz Azul is made buy milling dried, nixtamalized blue corn kernals into a fine powder, ready for making tortillas and other foods. What is nixtamalization, you ask? (We did!). It is an ancient, Mesoamerican process of soaking and cooking dry corn kernals in an alkaline solution, such as lime water. This softens the hull and significantly improves nutritional value by unlocking nutrients and making complete proteins available.

But is nixtamalized better? Yes! As well as improving nutrition, it makes it easier to digest, improves flavours and reduces mycotoxins. Use Naturelo Blue Corn Flour to make your own tortillas at home with a press! Also great for tamales and other classic Mexican and South American dishes.  Making tortillas is easy! Combine the corn flour with water and a little salt to make a dough. Press flat by hand (better with a tortilla press) and cook on a hot grill or in a pan until just charred on both sides. Tamales mix up in a similar way, but instead of flattening the dough, stuff it with your chosen filling and steam until cooked. Usually, a corn husk or banana leaf wraps around the dough to hold it together during cooking.

Whatever you’re going to do with it, this is a fantastically authentic ingredient from Mexico that will bring flavour and colour to your foods! We also have Naturelo White Corn Flour, should you prefer that.

Nutritional Information/ 100g

• Energy/kcal – 324
• Energy/kJ – 1354
• Protein (g) – 8.0
• Fat (g) – 4.4
• of which Saturates (g) – 0.6
• Carbohydrate (g) – 63.0
• of which sugars (g) – 1.5
• Fibre (g) – 10.0
• Sodium (mg) – 0.0

Ingredients – Ingredients: GMO free blue selected maize, traces of lime.