What are humitas? I know they prepare them in Latin america.?!


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What are humitas? I know they prepare them in Latin america.?


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Humitas are like tamales, they are made out of corn. What you do is to grind the corn and cook it together with some other ingredients to flavour it. There are sweet humitas (with a cheesey/raisin filling) and salty humitas (with a meaty filling). The paste made of corn (with the filling) is then wrapped in banana leaves. You put them in boiling water to heat them. There are yellow humitas (normal corn) and green humitas which is the corn paste flavoured with cilantro and huacatay (like parsely). Basically they are smaller versions of tamales with different flavour. In Venezuela they are like arepas.




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