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Basotho Papa

Name: Basotho Papa
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Lesotho
Ingredients: 300g Precooked Corn Flour; 800ml Water; 1/2 tsp Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

White maize meal worked stiff — Lesotho's everyday staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Papa is the Sesotho word for the staple of stiff maize porridge, eaten in Lesotho morning, noon, and night. White maize meal is worked stiff in boiling water and rolled by hand to eat with moroho (greens) or meat stews.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a round stone house in a Lesotho mountain village, white papa is worked in a three-legged iron pot and plated with greens.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Precooked Corn Flour 300g
Water 800ml
Salt 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring 600ml water and salt to a boil in a pot.
Mix some of the meal with the remaining water, add, and cook, stirring.
Add the rest of the meal a little at a time and work vigorously with a wooden spoon.
Cover and steam on very low heat for 15 minutes.
Work well again and serve on plates.

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