Flavorful Polcanes for an Irresistible Taste of Mexico
July 4, 2024
Chef Greg Ownes’ Polcanes from New Day New Chef Season 4
Polcanes
Course Main Course
Ingredients
- 500 g cooked lima bean
- 14 g chives
- 110 g pepitas roasted and blended;
- 15 g epazote
- 5 g salt
Dough
- 200 g maseca
- 300 g water
- 12 g oil
Instructions
- Step 1: Cook lima beans with epazote for two hours
- Step 2: Allow to cool
- Step 3: Dice chives and mix with the bean epazote mixture.
- Step 4: Roast pumpkin seeds and blend to powder in food processor
- Step 5: Add powdered pumpkin seeds to bean mixture
- Step 6: Set mixture aside and allow it to cool
- Step 7: Combine corn masa, water, oil, and salt into a dough
- Step 8: Roll dough into a ball and flatten out into a shape of a circle
- Step 9: Place bean mixture into the middle of the dough ball mixture making a puck shape - enclosing the bean mixture in the dough.
- Step 10: Lightly fry for 5 - 7 minutes.
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