harina
Baking powder's partner
Harina is the Spanish word for flour, commonly encountered in English contexts through Mexican and Latin American cooking.
It appears on packaging and in recipes: masa harina (corn flour for tortillas), harina de trigo (wheat flour).
In English-speaking kitchens, the term usually signals authentic Latin American ingredients or techniques.
Flour-liquid mixture for baking
- kneadingManual dough development
- mixingCombining into one mass
- yeastFermenting fungus
- batterUncooked cake mixture
whisking · measuring cups · rolling pin · baking powder · sifting · recipe · cake · bread
Thin unleavened flatbreads
- masaNixtamalized corn dough
- arepasSouth American corn cakes
- pupusasStuffed masa griddle cakes
- tamalesFilled masa, steamed wrapped
gorditas · sopes · empanadas · polenta · chapati · roti · naan · injera
dough
Flour-liquid mixture for baking
batter · whisking · measuring cups · rolling pin · baking powder · sifting · recipe · cake · bread · cookies
tortillas
Thin unleavened flatbreads
tamales · gorditas · sopes · empanadas · polenta · chapati · roti · naan · injera · fufu
wheat
Cereal crop for flour
oats · buckwheat · sorghum · spelt · teff · amaranth · quinoa · chickpea · almond · coconut
powdery
Reduced to fine particles
sifted · fluffy · light · soft · crumbly · granular · clumpy · chalky · smooth · velvety