I know I've had them for breakfast in the south and they tasted sort of like weird buttery rice sized potatoes or something.. but what exactly are they??
2006-08-04 07:58:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Grits are made from dried hominy, which is corn kernels soaked in lye to make the hulls come so the kernel will swell. The hominy is rinsed, dried, and ground. And then you have grits!
2006-08-04 13:55:27 · answer #1 · answered by Ally K 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Grits is a type of maize porridge and a food common in the Southern United States, and southern Manchuria (where it is called gezi in Mandarin) consisting of coarsely ground corn, traditionally by a stone mill. The results are passed through screens, with the finer part being corn meal, and the coarser being grits.
The word "grits" comes from Old English grytta meaning a coarse meal of any kind. Yellow grits include the entire kernel, while white grits use hulled kernels.
Hominy grits is another term for grits, but explicitly refers to grits made from nixtamalized corn, or hominy. These are the common grits sold in supermarkets outside of the Southern U.S.
Grits are also similar to farina and polenta. Polenta is also known in parts of the US as cornmeal mush, and is often sold precooked and chilled in sticks to be sliced and fried as a breakfast dish.
2006-08-04 08:24:07 · answer #2 · answered by braingamer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grits is unquestionably one of those corn porridge and a nutrition basic in the Southern usa which includes coarsely floor corn. it extremely is corresponding to many different thick maize-based porridges from around the globe alongside with polenta. It additionally has a lesser resemblance to farina, a thinner porridge.
2016-12-14 19:25:49 · answer #3 · answered by silvestre 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ground dried corn
There are also Hominy grits of which I know not what they are except I know I hate both and I am in the south.
Originally fron N.Y.-probably why I prefer pasta or pizza, being Italian
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2006-08-04 08:08:28 · answer #4 · answered by Gay BYE-BYE-GUY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are made from corn. homniey comes first then it gets broken down even more to become grits . I don't like either I hate any food that is soggy and they are soggy!!! ewwww
2006-08-04 08:31:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fine ground corn.
2006-08-04 08:02:53 · answer #6 · answered by Cutie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are not corn, but from homony, which is like corn they are dried and ground to make grits
2006-08-04 08:04:51 · answer #7 · answered by me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Homeny which is corn that has been cooked and oversoaked in water
2006-08-04 08:07:46 · answer #8 · answered by Lisamichelle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Manna from heaven, baby!
2006-08-04 10:42:09 · answer #9 · answered by Katy_Kat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dey be da bomb for da breakfast time.
Did you add buttter and maple syrup? mmmmm....
2006-08-04 08:03:29 · answer #10 · answered by Evil Wordmonger, LTD LOL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋