I-grits iyidlodi yendabuko yaseMelika eyenziwe emhlabathini owomile owenziwe emhlabathini (uhlobo olusetshenziselwa uketshezi olusetshenziswe ngokukhethekile) oluthathwa kuze kube yilapho luba buthaka futhi luhle.
Uma kuphekwe, i-grits yanda futhi ibambe amanzi okupheka, ihambisana nokufana okufana ne-gelatinized. Ukugaya okwehlukileyo okutholakalayo kuyatholakala, kusukela ku-coarse kuya kuphakathi kuya kulungile. Nakuba ama-grits ngokuvamile amhlophe, angase aphuzi futhi.
Umehluko wombala wukuthi yiziphi izinhlobo zommbila ezisetshenziselwa ukwenza i-hominy.
Ama-Grits anenhlanhla eqondile eyedwa kodwa azothatha ukunambitheka kwamanzi okupheka. Zivame ukuhanjiswa ngethusi, ibhotela, noshizi ngesikhathi sokupheka.
Umthetho omuhle wesithupha uma ukupheka ama-grits wukuthi bayothatha cishe ivolumu yabo emanzini izikhathi ezine. Ngakho-ke, ukulungisa indebe ye-grits, ungasebenzisa izindebe ezine zamanzi noma isitokisi, ukhonze imizuzu engamashumi amabili kuya kwangu-amabili nanhlanu kuze kube yilapho uketshezi lugcwele. I-grits esheshayo iyatholakala, epheka ngemizuzu embalwa nje.
I-grits iyinhlangano yokudla kwasekuseni ethandwa kakhulu eNingizimu Melika, lapho ekhonzwa khona esikhundleni samazambane. Kodwa zingadliwa nganoma yisiphi isidlo, ama-shrimp kanye nama-grits abe iresiphi ethandwa kakhulu.
I-grits = i-Polenta?
Futhi manje kukhona into ongase ungayazi: i- grits ne-polenta ayizona izinto ezifanayo. Futhi akukhona ukuthi i-polenta iluphuzi futhi i-grits yilezi (ngokuvamile) ezimhlophe.
Njengoba ngishilo phezulu, i-grits yenziwa emhlabathini owomile. Futhi igama elithi hominy libhekisela ngokuqondile kummbila (ngokuvamile uhlobo oluthile lwesitshalo okuthiwa i-flint corn) oluye lwaphathwa ngokugcoba nokulipheka kwisisombululo se-alkali, ngokuvamile into okuthiwa i-limewater.
Le nqubo ibizwa ngokuthi i-nixtamalization, futhi iveza nezici ezimbili ezengeziwe ze-hominy ezihlukanisa nommbila ojwayelekile (corn akadaka, noma ummbila), yilokho okusetshenziselwa ukwenza ama-corn flakes, ukudla kwe-corn, no-yebo, i-polenta.
Okokuqala, ukuthunyelwa kwe-nixtamalization kukhulula i-niacin (i-vitamin B3) emzimbeni bese ikuvumela ukuthi ifakwe emaphepheni ethu okugaya. Futhi okwesibili, kuveza ushintsho lwamakhemikhali oluvumela amaprotheni nama-carbohydrate emhlabathini we-hominy ukuze abambelele ndawonye. Lokhu kusho ukuthi ukungeza amanzi emfucumfuceni we-hominy (okuthiwa i-masa) uvumela ukuthi udale inhlama. Ngaphandle kwalo, kwakungeke kwenzeke ukwenza izimbiza zembewu - ukungasho lutho nge- chips tortilla .
I-Nixtamalization nayo iyakusiza ukukhulula amahlombe emakhaleni, okwenza kube lula ukugaya, ukwandisa nokugcoba ama-starches ngenkathi kuvula ama-flavour nephunga. (Ngakho-ke, ama-grits ayengaphezulu kune-polenta. Yenza kanjalo.)
Okunye ukudideka ngokwemigomo futhi kuvela eqinisweni lokuthi i-polenta (eyenziwe kusuka emasimini omhlabathi osemhlabathini) ngezinye izikhathi ibizwa ngokuthi "corn grits" ngenkathi i-grits (eyenziwe kusuka emhlabathini we-homic) ibizwa ngokuthi i-hominy grits noma i-grits yase-Southern. Ngakho ngazo zonke lezizinto zokudla ezahlukene ngegama elithi "grits" ngamagama abo, kulula ukuzihlanganisa zonke into eyodwa.
Kodwa khumbula: i-grits yenziwe ngokuqhamuka, okuyiyona engezansi. I-flavour ehlukile kusuka kuphrofayela ye-polenta, iphrofayli ehlukene yokudla okunempilo, kanye nezakhiwo ezihlukile kuze kube yilapho ekwazi ukwenza inhlama.