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Emasi

Name: Emasi
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Eswatini
Ingredients: 400g Yogurt; 200g Precooked Corn Flour; 250ml Water; A pinch Salt; 2 tsp Sugar

Side Dish

⏱ 15 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Fermented milk poured over crumbly maize meal — a traditional food of Eswatini.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Emasi is siSwati for fermented milk. In cattle-loving Eswatini, milk is fermented in gourds into a thick, sour milk. Poured over maize meal worked dry and crumbly is the traditional way to eat it, light and refreshing on hot days.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an Eswatini village home, white fermented milk is poured from a gourd over crumbly maize meal.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Yogurt 400g
Precooked Corn Flour 200g
Water 250ml
Salt A pinch
Sugar 2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring the water and salt to a boil in a pot and add the maize meal all at once.
Reduce the heat and stir with a wooden spoon for 5 minutes, breaking it up until crumbly.
Cover and steam on low for 15 minutes, then break up further.
Cool, then spoon into bowls.
Pour the yogurt over and sprinkle with sugar if you like.

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