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Ecuadorian Humita

Name: Ecuadorian Humita
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Ecuador
Ingredients: 4 (skin-on) Corn; 2 Egg; 50g Butter; 100g Melting Cheese; 1/2 Onion; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Baking Powder

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Ground fresh corn mixed with cheese, wrapped in corn husks, and steamed — a humble Andean snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Humitas are an old Andean dish: fresh corn is ground, mixed with egg, butter, and cheese, wrapped in corn husks, and steamed. In Ecuador they're the classic afternoon snack with coffee, in both sweet and savory versions.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At 4 p.m. in a Quito café, someone unwraps a steaming humita and savors it slowly with black coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Corn 4 (skin-on)
Egg 2
Butter 50g
Melting Cheese 100g
Onion 1/2
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Baking Powder 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel the husks off the corn without tearing them and reserve. Cut the kernels off with a knife.
Blend the kernels into a paste with a little texture left.
Sauté the chopped onion in butter and mix with the paste, eggs, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
Overlap 2 husks, add 3 tbsp of batter, place cheese in the center, wrap, and fold the ends.
Stand upright in a steamer and steam 40–45 minutes.
Serve in the husks.

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