Mesquite flour (or mesquite powder or mesquite meal, as it is sometimes called) is likely a new ingredient to you. I hadn't heard of mesquite flour before I received a free sample of
mesquite flour from Navitas
. Because my only association with mesquite was the
wood that we use to smoke fish and meat, I kept thinking that mesquite flour was going to taste smokey - it does not. Mesquite flour is made from the dried and ground pods of the mesquite plant (not the bark) and tastes a bit like walnuts and caramelized sugar. Mesquite is a unique, vibrant flavor worth adding to your arsenal for
bread making,
pancake making, tortilla making (like I'll show in this post) and
cupcake making.
