How to make nicaraguanstyle tortillas

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After falling in love with the campesino tortillas of rural nicaragua, we decided to make a video of the entire process, from raw corn to finished tortilla. The mill used is similar to a meat grinder, except that it has two grooved plates that turn against each other to grind the masa. We bought one in Nicaragua, but I've seen that you can buy masa grinders online in the US, sometimes referred to as a food mill (search corn grinder on Amazon). Otherwise, you just have to buy Masa flour in the hispanic section of the grocery store, but it's not as good! • We filmed this in the village of El Jocote in the Teostepe region of Nicaragua. Our host mother, Martha, and host sister, Ivania, showed us some of the finer points of tortilla making. • The lighting in the kitchen is very dark (they didn't have lights or windows in their kitchen), so it's not perfect, but I wanted to capture the secret of the deliciousness of Martha's tortillas • P.S. We have since tried these tortillas back in the US using our masa grinder from Nicaragua. They are delicious, but we have had trouble replicating the flavor and soft texture of the nicaraguan ones--possibly because the corn we get here is different. We have tried many sources of corn, from gourmet corn to feed corn. Surprisingly, feed corn so far has made the best tortillas and it's quite cheap, but harder to find in organic, non GMO varieties. We got ours from www.scratchandpeck.com--just the whole grain feed corn. We are also using pickling lime which is commercially available, food-grade calcium hydroxide (found it on Amazon). • I recently made another video on how to make tortillas. It's with better lighting, more instruction, and tips for doing it with equipment found in the USA. Check it out: • How to make incredible tortillas from... • Good luck, and please post a message if this helps or if you have questions!

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