Mexican
Atole de Masa (Corn Masa Atole)
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Atole de Masa (Corn Masa Atole) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Whisk the masa harina into 1 cup of the milk until no lumps remain.
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Warm the remaining milk in a saucepan with the cinnamon stick and piloncillo until the piloncillo dissolves.
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Whisk in the masa mixture and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens to a pourable, silky consistency, about 8 minutes.
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Remove the cinnamon stick.
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Serve hot in mugs, the classic partner to a tamal or a plate of pan dulce, and treat it as breakfast food, exactly as congee is treated elsewhere.
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Serve it with
A Mexican breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Atole de Masa (Corn Masa Atole), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Atole de Masa (Corn Masa Atole) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 190 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 27 g
- Fat
- 6 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 21 g
- Sodium
- 80 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Atole de Masa (Corn Masa Atole) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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