Pap, a Gluten Free Dish from South Africa
by Dave Muir
(Durbin, South Africa)
Pap with Sosaties
Pap, or Mieliepap
A Gluten Free"Bread" For Scooping
Pap (pronounced Pup) or mieliepap (mielie = maize) is the traditional accompaniment to many South African meals.
It's basically the same as the grits of the Southern United States: a white (or rarely, yellow) corn-meal (NOT corn-flour) porridge.
The difference is that it is left to cool and picked up with the fingers to use as a scoop for other foods.
It's called Sadza in Zimbabwe and KwaZulu-Natal, and is basically the same staple cornmeal porridge used throughout black Africa. It is very often served at a traditional South African braaivleis (barbeque).
Pap Recipe: 4 to 6 servings
Water -- 4 cups
Salt -- 2 teaspoons
White cornmeal, finely ground -- 2 cups
Method
Bring the water and salt to a boil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Stir in the cornmeal slowly, letting it fall though the fingers of your hand.
Reduce heat to medium-low and continue stirring regularly, smoothing it as you go (it makes huge lumps) until it pulls away from the sides of the pot and becomes very thick, (which is quick).
If it burns- throw it away!
Let it cool before you serve because it is picked up by hand in big lumps and used as a bread to sop up gravy, pick up meat etc.
Dave
Please let us know if you've tried pap and how you liked it. – just scroll down and write your comments below...
Thanks for the recipe, Dave
It's great to have the South African recipe and the names and customs... I love Southern grits, so this gives me a new way to serve them.
In my house we also eat polenta, an Italian version using yellow corn, although we eat it warm and soft, and usually not with our hands. Except sometimes we slice and fry or bake the leftovers and eat them with our fingers... Pat
Other Names for Pap,
and Some Similar African Dishes
Thanks to Jeanne Egbosiuba Ukwendu, BellaOnline's African Culture Editor.
Some are made in a pot like pap, and some are partially cooked then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed.
Ugali (Kenya), kenkey (may have cassava mixed in) and banku (western Africa). Banku and kenkey are made with fermented batter (like sourdough).
Bâton de Manioc is made entirely of cassava and steamed.
In Zambia and Malawi the term is Nshima, (aka Nsima, Shima, or Sima) and may be made from maize, millet, sorghum, or cassava.
Tô, (or Toh rhymes with 'dough') is the version found in Burkina Faso and Mali. It's traditionally made with sorghum flour, but may also be made with maize meal or rice flour.
Other names and similar dishes include posho (Uganda), bugari, ghaat, luku, and moteke.
SEE ALSO:
Bolo de Milho: corn "cake" from BrazilMore Recipes for Traditional Starchy Side Dishes
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