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Activity - Canarian Mousse de Gofio using Cyprus St. John
Commandaria Wine

Gofio is a sort of Canarian flour made from roasted grains

(typically wheat or certain varieties of maize) or other
starchy plants (e.g. beans and, historically, fern root), some
varieties containing a little added salt. Gofio has been an

important ingredient in Canarian cooking for some time, and
Canarian emigrants have spread its use to the Caribbean

(notably in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and
Venezuela) and the Western Sahara. It is also found in
Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile, where it is known as harina

tostada and is employed in a wide variety of recipes. The
gofio commercially available in the Canary Islands is always

finely ground, like ordinary flour, despite the definition given
in the Spanish Dictionary of the Royal Academy.

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