What is Piki?
Piki bread is also known as Indian paper bread. It is a traditional hopi bread, which is considered cumbersome, partly because of the difficulties of obtaining the necessary ingredients. Piki ingredients include juniper ash, blue corn meal and sunflower oil. Although blue -gray bread is also produced by people from New Mexico Pueblo, bread is not outside the Arizona area.
The most difficult ingredient that can be obtained for this version of tortilla in Hopi is the ash ash. It is an ashes that remained from behind from a burning juniper tree, so the most direct way to get ingredients is to burn the tree itself and get ashes. For those who really want bread, there are fewer traditional recipes, such as those that require ashes of various other plants. Mexican tortilla flour known as Harina's meat is also used in some recipes as a substitution. However, the best place to get it is in the authentic restaurant Hopi.
Cornflower Meal and sunflower oil can be purchasedIT in some special grocery stores and online. In order to form bread, the ashes must first be cooked in the water and then tense. It is then mixed with a blue corn icing and cooling into the bread. The meal layer should be spread over baking baking, such as a grate. The traditional method stretches the blue dough on the hot rock, such as the slate plate.
When the dough is too thick, it will not cook properly. Once very thin, it is cooked for a short time before it is inverted into a long shape of a similar tamale and served. Although many people can use oil for cooking bread, another traditional way to make a PIKI is to bother a tool for cooking in the fat of an animal served with food. The melon seeds were also used to create oil.
If you use fresh blue corn in Recipe, it will require grinding before cooking. The resulting bread is less bread because it is a fragile corn treatment. In the western states it is well known for its quality of melt in ÚSTech. It is also a very family food, hard with tradition. Women Hopi once handed their knowledge of PIKI to their daughters along with their cooking stones.