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Chigumu

Name: Chigumu
Total time: 80 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Malawi
Ingredients: 200g Corn grits; 3 (very ripe) Bananas; 80g Sugar; 200ml Milk; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; A pinch Salt

Dessert

⏱ 80 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Maize meal and banana mixed and baked — a simple Malawian cake.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chigumu is a traditional Malawian cake: maize meal is mixed with ripe banana and sugar and was once wrapped in leaves and baked in the embers. Today it's usually baked in a pot or oven. Dense and gently sweet, it's eaten with tea as a snack or breakfast.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Malawian village yard, a yellow corn cake pulled from the embers is cut and set out with tea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Corn grits 200g
Bananas 3 (very ripe)
Sugar 80g
Milk 200ml
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mash the bananas smooth.
Mix the maize meal, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Add the bananas, milk, and oil and mix.
Pour into a pan.
Bake at 180°C for 45 minutes.

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