Microwave Maize Meal Recipe - Putupap

Quick and Easy Side Dish for Barbecue or Breakfast

© Yolande Pienaar

Jun 5, 2009

Maize meal dishes are versatile and cheap to prepare. Served the maize meal porridge as breakfast with milk and sugar or as a side dish topped with a tomato based sauce together with roasted or barbecued meat. The recipes below are enough to make 6 servings.

Putupap - Microwave Maize Meal Recipe

Ingredients:

• 500 ml (2 cups) cold water
• 300 g (500 ml /2 cups) Maize meal
• 7 ml salt

Directions:

1. Grease a microwave safe bowl of at least 1,5 l well.
2. Pour the water in the bowl and stir the salt and maize meal gradually into the water until well mixed.
3. Place a lid on the bowl or if no lid is available, punch holes in plastic wrap and cover the bowl.
4. Microwave the porridge for 5 minutes on full (100%) power.
5. Use a large fork and stir the mixture until evenly crumbled.
6. Cover the bowl again and microwave the porridge a further 5 minutes on full (100%) power.
7. Stir again with a large fork until the porridge is evenly crumbled.
8. Cover and microwave another 10 minutes on half (50%) power.
9. Take the bowl out of the microwave stir with the large fork until no big lumps are left and serve.

Putupap - Maize Meal Recipe on the Stovetop

Ingredients:

• 375 ml water (1 ½ cups)
• 5 ml salt
• 300 g maize meal ( 500 ml / 2 cups)

Directions:

1. Combine water and salt in a pot and bring to the boil.
2. Add the maize meal slowly so the maize meal forms a heap and the water keeps boiling around it.
3. Do not stir the mixture.
4. Put a lid on the pot and cook for 10 to 15 minutes on low heat.
5. Stir vigorously with a large fork until the mixture obtains a crumbly texture.
6. Replace the lid and cook for approximately one hour over very low heat.
7. Serve while still hot.

Putupap - Maize Meal Recipe on the Coals

Follow the recipe as for the putupap on the stove, but use a cast-iron pot with a lid. When placing the cast-iron pot on the warm coals, cover the pot with tinfoil before putting the lid on to prevent ash from getting into the pot.

Regulate the heat by placing fewer coals under the pot and more coals on the lid of the pot as the coals underneath tend to cause scorching.

Tomato Based Topping/ Sauce (Braai Sauce/Sishibo)

Ingredients:

• 2 onions chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 2 tablespoons margarine or butter
• 5 tomatoes, chopped
• 1 apple, peeled and grated
• ½ cup sultanas
• ½ cup white wine
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Pinch of pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Fry onion and garlic in the margarine until light brown.
2. Add the remaining ingredients and simmer for about 10 minutes.
3. Serve hot as topping on putupap / maize meal.

Putupap Maize Meal Recipe

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