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Mahewu

Name: Mahewu
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Zimbabwe
Ingredients: 100g Corn grits; 1 tbsp Bread flour; 2 tbsp Sugar; 1L Water

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Fermented maize porridge — Zimbabwe's faintly sour traditional drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mahewu is a traditional southern African drink made by fermenting maize porridge overnight to several days; it contains almost no alcohol. Thick with a gentle tang, it's loved as nourishment during breaks from field work and as a drink on hot days. Many commercial versions are sold today.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In the shade of a tree beside a Zimbabwean field, a thick white drink is poured from a gourd during a break from farm work.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn grits 100g
Bread flour 1 tbsp
Sugar 2 tbsp
Water 1L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer the water and maize meal in a pot for 20 minutes, stirring, to make a thin porridge.
Turn off the heat and cool to body temperature.
Mix in the bread flour, cover, and leave at room temperature overnight to 1 day until faintly sour.
Add the sugar and mix.
Chill in the fridge and drink.

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