Maseca Corn Flour, 4.4 lbs.

by Maseca

Product Features

• This corn flour is ideal for making your favorite foods
• You can make the dough for tortillas, enchiladas, pupusas, sopes, and many more
• The Maseca corn flour Masa for tortillas is made from ground, dried corn

Product Description

Flour made from ground, dried corn. Ideal to make masa harina (dough) for tortillas, sopes and empanadas. Maseca Instant Corn Masa Mix is a product from Azteca Milling Co.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0000IJYK4
• UPC: 037297914475
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,291 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WAY too much $$$$, October 23, 2010

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Victor D. Cohen "charlie_simian" (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maseca Corn Flour, 4.4 lbs. (Misc.)

Unless you are in dire, immediate need for this, I would not recommend buying this particular item here. I literally just HAPPENED to buy this in my local Stop & Shop grocery store for $2.99. Yes, I triple-checked and it's the EXACT same item and size - 4.4 lbs. The product is good but the price is terrible!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gluten-free!, December 4, 2008

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Lisa M. Mims (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maseca Corn Flour, 4.4 lbs. (Misc.)

Looking for a cheaper gluten-free flour? Look no further. They don't mill wheat, so it's gluten-free with no chance of cross-contamination--unlike virtually every other brand of corn flour out there, except Publix, which is only available in four U.S. states.

However, this is masa harina, not corn flour, so you can make tortillas, arepas, tamales and skillet corn bread with it...and not much else.

Edit: Masa Harina Socca

(With many thanks to Mark Bittman.) One and 1/2 cup water to one cup masa harina--let sit for several hours, covered. Preheat oven to 450. Find a flat cast-iron skillet without sides--like a flat fajita grill. (A regular cast iron pan with sides will concentrate the heat too much on the edges and burn the edges before the center gets cooked.)

Pour enough canola oil into the pan that it sloshes a little. Spoon the dough into the pan. Finally, put the pan into the preheated oven. Leave for an hour to an hour and a half. Flip halfway through. L'Chaim.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Quality Corn Masa Flour, June 23, 2008

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'MaryLou Cheatham "The Collard Patch" (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maseca Corn Flour, 4.4 lbs. (Misc.)

Maseca Corn Flour, 4.4 lbs. is the real thing for making delicious tortillas. The only other ingredient necessary is water. Of course, a huge amount of technique is required! My son-in-law uses it to thicken his wonderful chili. He gave me the recipe, which I placed in Flavored with Love: Mary Lou's Family and Friends Can Cook. He's such a nice son-in-law. He would not want me to tell you this, but he is a great cook.

Maseca Corn Flour is made from ground, dried corn. It can be used to make masa harina (dough) for "tortillas, sopes and empanadas, enchiladas, pupusas, guaraches, arepas and atole," the manufacturer says. It is gluten free.

The manufacturer (the Gruma) company has been making this fine corn flour for over 50 years.