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Sishwala

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

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Maize meal worked into a stiff paste — Eswatini's staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sishwala is Eswatini's staple: white maize meal worked stiff in boiling water. A relative of southern Africa's pap, it's rolled by hand and dipped in meat stews, greens, or sauces. Maize is the most widely grown crop in Eswatini.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a hilltop home in Eswatini, white maize meal is worked with a wooden spoon in a three-legged iron pot and heaped onto a plate.

🥕 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 a third of the meal with the remaining water, add to the pot, and cook, stirring.
Add the rest of the meal and work vigorously with a wooden spoon.
Cover and steam on very low heat for 15 minutes, working it once partway through.
Shape with a wet bowl and serve on a plate.

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