Pinole, also called pinol, is roasted ground maize. The resulting powder is used as a nutrient-dense ingredient in foods such as cereals, baked goods, tortillas, and beverages, including a drink called pinolillo made by mixing it with cocoa, agave, cinnamon, chia seeds, vanilla, or other spices. The name comes from the Nahuatl word pinolli, meaning cornmeal. Today pinole is generally made by hand using wood-burning adobe ovens and a stone and pestle, is still consumed in certain, often rural, parts of Latin America, and is considered the national beverage of Nicaragua.
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How is pinole used in Mexico today?
It goes into drinks and cookies and is even eaten as candy in Colima.
Vamonos to Mexico reports that pinole is currently used to make hot or cold drinks and cookies, and that in Colima it is even consumed as candy. In Chiapas, it says, pinole is mixed with water and taken as a substitute for coffee or pozol.
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== The recorded history of Pinole, California, dates back to the early 1700s, when a Spanish commandant, Don Pedro Fages, led an exploration through the Contra Costa shoreline of California.
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Latin America
Uses Ingredient: Maize, infobox main_ingredient field
Maize and cacao
Uses Ingredient: Cacao, infobox main_ingredient field
Maize and cacao
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