South African side dish with BBQ!
To make this Pap Dish, you will need:
- Lite cream, (double cream will be too thick)
- 1 onion chopped
- Sliced mushrooms
- Bacon cut in bits
- Frankfurter cut in slices
- Grated cheese
- Pap...a little bit runny, if too stiff you will have a problem smearing it over your dish.
- Oven bake glass dish sprayed with cook Spray
To prepare:
- Fry onions, mushrooms, bacon and frankfurters all together in a pan with a little bit of olive oil...you can fry it all separately and mix together when done.
- Take your oven bake glass dish, start with a thin layer pap (see recipe below)
- Then a layer of the fried mixture followed by a layer of thinly grated cheese
- Cover nicely with a layer op pap and finely top with grated cheese and cream and its ready for the oven.
- Bake in oven at 180 degrees C for 30 minutes until light brown, and this is what you get:-
Enjoy!!!!!
How to make Pap (in the microwave) for 3-4 people, you will need:
- Coarse Maize Meal
- Freshly boiled water
- Large microwaveable bowl (Glass Pyrex bowl) with a lid
- A large two tine fork
- Salt
It will take only 10minutes so pay attention....
In your microwave bowl, 1 cup of maize meal, pinch of salt, add just enough freshly boiled water and work it in with a fork. Set microwave on High and set timer for 10 minutes. Put the lid on your bowl and pop it in the microwave. Microwave for about a minute and then remove it, thoroughly stir in a little bit more water and return to the microwave.
Repeat this process (remove, add a little water and stir, microwave again) 3 or 4 more times during cooking time at regular intervals.
Tips:
- A glass Pyrex bowl is preferable to a plastic one
- For putu (krummel) pap, add a little less water and use the fork to make the pap crumbly. Believe me, you can make perfect krummelpap in the microwave!
- In the same way, adding more water will give you a denser (stywe) pap or if you add more water (with finer maize meal) you will have finer runny like porridge (slap pap).
- Making pap in the microwave may seem strange at first, but you will master it in no time and no one will be able to tell the difference!
Warnings:
Use oven mitts as the glass bowl will get really hot.
Hot steam will escape every time you open to stir, take lid off carefully and away from your face.