Gofio

GOFIO Gofio is a flour of toasted cereals originary from the Canary Islands. It is eaten in South America too. It’s a pre-Spanish people food.

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Rye, barley, roots of fern and corn. It’s a mix of toasted grain and ground with a stone. It contains: vitamins, proteins, fibre. It hasn’t got colouring and preservative. It's like the flour but with a darker colour.



Gofio is an important element from Canary Islands.



Before the Spanish conquest in the XV century, the aborigines of the Canary Islands (guanches) ate this food mixed with water and salt or with milk, honey and dry fruits. They also mixed it with banana. The most common way of taking gofio is putting it in milk, but it can be used in “escaldado” (like gofio with soup). Here, we usually eat it dusted in hot milk and take it with a spoon.

This video explains the elaboration of gofio:

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