{"id":40019,"count":1,"description":"Hominy or nixtamal is dried maize kernels which have been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization.\nThe English term hominy is derived from the Powhatan language word for maize. Many other Native American cultures also made hominy and integrated it into their diet. Cherokees, for example, made hominy grits by soaking corn in a weak lye solution obtained by leaching hardwood ash with water and beating it with a kanona (\u13a7\u13c3\u13be), or corn beater. The grits were used to make a traditional hominy soup (gvnohenv amagii \u13ac\u13c3\u13ae\u13c5 \u13a0\u13b9\u13a9\u13a2), a hominy soup that was allowed to ferment (gvwi sida amagii \u13ac\u13eb \u13cf\u13d3 \u13a0\u13b9\u13a9\u13a2), cornbread, dumplings (digunvi \u13d7\u13ab\u13c5\u13a2), or, in post-contact times, fried with bacon and green onions.\nSome recipes using hominy include menudo (a spicy tripe and hominy soup), pozole or posole (a stew of hominy and pork, chicken, or other meat), hominy bread, hominy chili, hog n' hominy, casseroles and fried dishes. Hominy can be ground coarsely to make hominy grits, or into a fine...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/hominy\/","name":"Hominy","slug":"hominy","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/40019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=40019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}