What Masa means
Masa is a Mexican ingredient name of Spanish origin meaning "dough". It comes from Spanish masa (dough), from Latin massa. It is pronounced MAH-sah, and it is most associated with the whole country.
Plain Spanish for dough, but in Mexico it means one thing only: ground nixtamalized maize.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The words that appear inside dish names: the chiles (ancho, guajillo, pasilla, chipotle), the corn words (nixtamal, masa, tortilla, elote), and the tools (comal, molcajete, metate). Learn these and most menu items decode themselves.
