Yellow maize flour
Yellow maize flour, called farina gialla in Italian, is milled from maize and used in polenta and Tuscan soups.
Photograph · Farina gialla di mais
- Italian name
- Farina gialla di mais
- Tuscan use
- Farinata with cavolo nero and beans
In Tuscan cooking
In Tuscany, farina gialla thickens farinata di cavolo nero, a soup with cavolo nero and cannellini beans. A Mugello version, farinata con le leghe, combines maize flour with cavolo nero, borlotti beans and leeks. That recipe specifies stone-ground flour; the cavolo nero version does not name a grind. Farina gialla is also used for polenta. Choose a flour suited to the recipe rather than assuming that every yellow maize flour is bramata.
Cook with it
Worth knowing next
- Cavolo neroA central ingredient in the Tuscan farinate made with yellow maize flour.
- Cannellini beansPaired with cavolo nero and farina gialla in the Visit Tuscany farinata recipe.
- Coarse stone-ground cornmealA distinct coarse, bramata grade; the cavolo nero farinata source does not specify that grade.
