Corn cake ingredients
- 500 g fine corn flour
- 100 g of wheat flour
- Oil
- Chorizo or chorizo hash
- Water
- Sal Island
Corn cakes recipe
- 1 Mix the corn flour with the wheat flour and add little by little warm water, in which half a tablespoon of salt will have been dissolved, to make a paste that is not excessively hard and does not stick to your hands. Rest this dough for 10/15 minutes *.
- 2 After this time, with portions of dough flattened on a slightly damp cloth, the cakes are molded into a circular, thin shape.
- 3 Next, fry the tortillas in plenty of very hot oil and place them on a platter.
* We can let the dough rest for a few hours in the refrigerator if there is no rush.
Did you know…?
One of the demands of the life of ranchers is caring for the cattle in the early hours of the morning: cleaning the stable and the cows, milking them, putting things in order.
In order not to go on an empty stomach to carry out these tasks, it was customary to have a snack to "kill the bug." This stimulus consisted of a cup of black coffee with a few pingarates (a splash) of anise or brandy, well loaded with sugar and very hot, of course.
Once the work was done and we were back home, we enjoyed lunch: fried eggs with half a chorizo sausage, fried potatoes, and half a bottle of cider.
Lunch for Asturians is breakfast.
Asturian recipe books
If you want to know first-hand Asturian recipes, simple but very delicious, we recommend buying the book «25 years of Guisanderas de Asturias» and the book "The Art of Cooking", written by the famous cook María Luisa García and currently republished.
