Dishes made with maize
18 dishes from around the world that list maize as a main ingredient.
Indio viejoMeat
🇳🇮 NicaraguaNicaraguan maize and meat stew thickened with tomatoes and achiote
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
InjeraVeganእንጀራ
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 1 moreLarge, spongy sour flatbread made from fermented teff flour
Bread, Lunch, Dinner
CevicheFish or seafood
🇵🇪 Peru and 5 moreRaw fish or shellfish marinated in citrus juice and seasonings
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Gofio
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 moreFinely milled roasted grain flour from the Canary Islands, used in many ways
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Perkedelꦧꦼꦒꦼꦢꦶꦭ꧀
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 2 moreIndonesian-Javanese fritters made from mashed potato or other vegetables
Street food, Lunch, Dinner
KenkeyVegan
🇬🇭 Ghana and 3 moreFermented maize dough dumpling, steamed and served with spicy sides
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
MazamorraKaguyjy
🇪🇸 Spain and 10 moreTraditional corn-based dessert or drink found across Spain and Latin America
Drink, Breakfast, Lunch
HumitaVegetarian
🇵🇪 Peru and 4 moreFresh corn dough wrapped in husks and steamed or boiled
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Ceviche: No machine-readable author provided. Manuel González Olaechea assumed, CC BY 3.0, source
- Injera: Edsel Little, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Mazamorra: Mil va, Public domain, source
- Kenkey: juxtapose^esopatxuj, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Indio viejo: MiguelRamirez77, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gofio: barraquito, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Perkedel: Sakurai Midori, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Humita: Marcos Katz, CC BY 3.0, source