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Tapalapa

Name: Tapalapa
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: The Gambia
Ingredients: 350g Bread flour; 50g Corn grits; 5g Dry yeast; 1 tsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 260ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Crusty bread of wheat with a little cornmeal — The Gambia's bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tapalapa is The Gambia's traditional bread: wheat flour is mixed with a little cornmeal or millet flour and baked in a wood-fired oven. It has a hard crust and a dense crumb. For breakfast it's classically filled with bean stew, butter, or chocolate spread.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Outside a Gambian bakery in the morning, fresh long loaves are piled in baskets and sold filled with bean stew.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Bread flour 350g
Corn grits 50g
Dry yeast 5g
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 260ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the bread flour, maize meal, yeast, sugar, salt, and lukewarm water and knead 10 minutes.
Let rise 1 hour.
Divide into 6, shape into long loaves, and rest 30 minutes.
Slash the tops and mist with water.
Bake at 230°C for 20 minutes until the crust is hard.

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