Classic Venezuelan cachapas are made from a batter of fresh corn and precooked cornmeal, fried till brown on the outside, and filled with soft melty cheese.

but if a recipe is unclear which kind of cornmeal you should buy, you may end up with blue cornbread or white corn muffins.

Traditional cornmeal-based recipes like corn muffins, cornbread, and southern hoe cakes do contain gluten. Cornstarch is a white powder made from the endosperm of the corn kernel (aka the starchy ...