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Mealie Bread

Name: Mealie Bread
Total time: 70 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Namibia
Ingredients: 2 Corn; 200g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 2 Egg; 150ml Milk; 50g Butter; 3 tbsp Sugar; 1/2 tsp Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 70 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Bread baked with corn kernels — a sweet, moist Namibian loaf.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mealie is the southern African word for corn. Mealie bread is a gently sweet, moist loaf with corn kernels or creamed corn mixed into the batter, often made in Namibian and South African homes as a side for braai (charcoal barbecue).

🌆 Where it's eaten: On braai day in a Namibian backyard, yellow bread studded with corn kernels is sliced and set on a table beside the coals.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Corn 2
All-purpose flour 200g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Egg 2
Milk 150ml
Butter 50g
Sugar 3 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the kernels from the corn and coarsely blend half of them.
Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
Add the eggs, milk, and melted butter and mix.
Add all the corn, mix, and pour into a loaf pan.
Bake at 180°C for 45 minutes.

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