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Pap

Name: Pap
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: South Africa
Ingredients: 250g (white) Precooked Corn Flour; 750ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; 20g Butter

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

White maize meal cooked into a stiff porridge — South Africa's everyday staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pap (mielie pap) is South Africa's staple of white maize meal cooked in water, called uphuthu in Zulu. Its names and uses change with its texture, from soft porridge to a stiff kind pulled apart by hand to a dry, crumbly kind. It's eaten with braai meat, chakalaka, or stew.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At dinner in a township home, white pap is scooped from a big pot, rolled by hand, and used to pick up stew.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Precooked Corn Flour 250g (white)
Water 750ml
Salt 1 tsp
Butter 20g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring the water and salt to a boil in a pot.
Add half the maize meal all at once, cover, and leave on low for 5 minutes.
Stir with a wooden spoon, working in the remaining meal a little at a time.
Cover and cook on very low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Stir in the butter.
Finish to your preferred stiffness and serve with stew or braai.

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