We're in Tenerife for a hiking vacation, and I chanced upon this bag of roasted corn and wheat flour in the supermarket.
There are also versions with only corn, or a combination of corn and other grains, but I bought the 50/50 corn/white.
The flour is brown in colour and smells very much like toasted cereal. I've read that Canarians mix it with broth and serve it with fish and other savoury food. On the package itself, there are directions to make a drink from it simply by mixing it with hot water.
I made a poolish from this, and also a separate poolish with white flour. There isn't an oven here, so I decided to make muffins on the stovetop for our breakfasts and lunches.
The white poolish:
The gofio poolish:
I made the muffin dough with both poolishes, salt, and more white flour and gofio. These were all risen by a tiny amount of fresh yeast. I left the dough to rise on the counter for 2 hours, then cold fermented for 18 hours.
The next day, I shaped the dough into balls, let rise till doubled, and cooked them on the pan over low heat, 4 mins on each side.
The gofio lends the muffins a great edge - a lot of flavour, depth, and a beautiful crust. So good. Each day I leave behind a small amount of poolish to feed again for next day's batch of muffins.
We are leaving soon, but I really love Tenerife. What an amazing landscape!
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Brilliant, Lin!!! Both the muffins and the pics of the terrain.
I'd never heard of gofio, but now I definitely want to see if there are any recipes that call for roasted rye flour.😆
This website -- https://islandmomma.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/gofio-a-tale-of-food-and-history-for-the-day-of-the-canaries/ -- says that there's a gofio museum in Tenerife.
Enjoy your hiking!!!!!
Rob
I'm waiting for your invention with that, Rob. It can only be maarrrvveeelloouuuusssss.
I loved the hiking so much. I could walk forever to hunt down cacti flowers.
Fantastic looking muffins, Lin! And away from home, too. It makes me wish I was in Hawaii again (I lived there for a year long ago).
TomP
And Hawaii for a year!!! That must have been such a joy.
Yes, and I worked with porpoises. Every morning I drove a motorboat across a mile of ocean to get to the facility. Once a week I loaded the boat with a week's worth of frozen fish before setting out.
I’ve never heard of these and now I wish I could try them. I’ve got some boring English muffins in the refrigerator to bake tomorrow. What a lovely vacation you’re experiencing. We are in the middle of a blizzard with a foot of snow so far 😩. My dogs are happy to romp in the snow though!
Your dog sure look happy and I hope that blizzard's cleared up somewhat. I'm back in Belgium where the sun barely shines, but the vacation shall power me through for quite some time.
Love the muffins and the hike!
Thanks, Precaud!
So interesting, I love discovering new places like this, and of course buying the local flour.
Thanks for sharing here!
-Jon
I check out the flour offerings first thing I'm in a shop. It's a little obsessive. They had such flavourful produce too - amazing purple sweet potato, so dark purple it was almost black. A deep, caramel flavour.
Those look wonderful! Great idea for the gofio. Toasted flour sounds fun to explore.
I loved it! Very very strong flavour so I wouldn't use it by itself necessarily, but it's amazing. I read that it was traditionally toasted to lengthen the shelf life of flour.
Thanks for the warning! I'll have to give it a try with oats, millets, or possibly dals sometime.
Wow these are fabulous Lin. Tenerife is a beautiful place, we will be there for a day on our upcoming cruise and we've been there once before on a cruise. I'm sure you've having a wonderful time.
Enjoy.
Benny
I hope you will have a great time on your upcoming cruise! You probably wouldn't get to venture into the mountains in a day, but I sure hope you get to taste the local cuisine when you're in Tenerife.
Thanks Lin, we are looking forward to all the ports including both Tenerife and Lanzarote in the Caneries. We haven’t decided what to do yet in either. I guess we’d need to book an excursion of some sort to see some of the mountains.
Benny
We were living and hiking not far from Masca and it's beautiful. Really stunning.