How To Nixtamalize Corn
To go with the seed story about Desert Dent Corn this month, we wanted to share guide for cooking corn. Nixtamalization is a process of cooking corn in an alkaline solution of water and hardwood ash or calcium hydroxide/lime. The process breaks down the outer wall of the kernels. The alkaline solution makes some of the nutrients in corn more bioavailable (most notably the amino acid tryptophan, and vitamin B3 (niacin) which is formed as tryptophan is metabolized. The process also makes the corn softer, larger, […]