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Kaçamak

Name: Kaçamak
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Albania
Ingredients: 200g Corn grits; 800ml Water; 40g Butter; 100g Feta Cheese; To taste Plain yogurt; 1 tsp Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Cornmeal stirred with butter and cheese — a humble staple of Albania's mountain villages.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kaçamak is cornmeal cooked in water, widely eaten in the Balkan mountains. In Albania, butter and white cheese are stirred in and it's often eaten for breakfast with yogurt or kajmak. Once the staple of poor mountain villages, it's now a nostalgic favorite at eateries too.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a mountain shepherd's home in Albania, yellow cornmeal porridge is spooned into a wooden bowl and topped with melted butter and white cheese.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn grits 200g
Water 800ml
Butter 40g
Feta Cheese 100g
Plain yogurt To taste
Salt 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring water and salt to a boil in a pot.
Gradually add the corn grits, stirring so it doesn't clump.
Lower the heat and cook for 20 minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon.
Add the butter and crumbled feta and stir until smooth.
Spoon into bowls and serve with yogurt.

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