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Xima

Name: Xima
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mozambique
Ingredients: 300g (white, fine) Precooked Corn Flour; 900ml Water; A pinch Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

White maize meal cooked stiff in water — Mozambique's everyday staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Xima is Mozambique's staple: white maize meal cooked in water until firm and chewy. From the same family as East Africa's ugali and southern Africa's pap, it's rolled by hand to scoop up matapa, fish stew, or meat stew. It's essential at every table, from villages to cities.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Mozambican farm in the evening, a woman vigorously works white dough with a long paddle in a pot over a wood fire and serves it into the family's bowls.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Precooked Corn Flour 300g (white, fine)
Water 900ml
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring the water to a boil in a pot and add salt.
Gradually stir in a third of the maize meal to make a loose porridge and simmer 5 minutes.
Work in the remaining meal a little at a time, stirring vigorously with a wooden spoon.
Reduce the heat and keep working for 10 minutes until stiff and pulling away from the pot.
Shape into rounds with a wet ladle, place in bowls, and eat with stews.

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