canjica

{{short description|Variety of corn typical of Brazilian cuisine}}

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Canjica is a white variety of corn typical of Brazilian cuisine. It is mostly used in a special kind of sweet popcorn and in a sweet dish also named "canjica", a popular Festa Junina dish.{{cite book | last=Parés | first=L.N. | title=The Formation of Candomble: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil | publisher=University of North Carolina Press | series=Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-4696-1092-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SURZAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA288 | access-date=July 5, 2019 | page=288}}