A fungus that grows on corn, considered a delicacy in Mexico where cooks use it to flavor food.
Example sentencesExamples
Soft-shell crab should be lighter, the flouring less mealy, but tamales, especially white corn with huitlacoche, have the right balance, inside and out.
Beneath is a stuffing-like blend of enlarged, earthy huitlacoche and grilled corn kernels rolled with cotilla, lime and ancho chile.
Add the huitlacoche and cook until tender, about one minute.
Then he says huitlacoche is corn fungus, not a nervous breakdown, sillies.
Last week I ate so many huitlacoche tacos in Condesa, I think it may be coming out my ears!
Definition of huitlacoche in US English:
huitlacoche
nounˌwētləˈkōCHā
A fungus that grows on corn, considered a delicacy in Mexico where cooks use it to flavor food.
Example sentencesExamples
Then he says huitlacoche is corn fungus, not a nervous breakdown, sillies.
Last week I ate so many huitlacoche tacos in Condesa, I think it may be coming out my ears!
Soft-shell crab should be lighter, the flouring less mealy, but tamales, especially white corn with huitlacoche, have the right balance, inside and out.
Add the huitlacoche and cook until tender, about one minute.
Beneath is a stuffing-like blend of enlarged, earthy huitlacoche and grilled corn kernels rolled with cotilla, lime and ancho chile.