A bowl of cooked hominy | |
Place of origin | Mesoamerica |
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Region or state | Americas |
Ingredients generally used | Dried maize (corn) kernels, water, alkali |
Hominy is a food item produced from dried maize (corn) kernels that have been treated with an alkali, in a process called nixtamalization (nextamalli is the Nahuatl word for "hominy"). "Lye hominy" is a type of hominy made with lye.[1]