South African comfort food with a trendy twist to warm you up from the inside.
Three-cheese pap served with saffron chakalaka and classic boerewors
Ingredients
- PAP
- 250ml water
- 5ml salt
- 500ml maize meal
- 50ml blue cheese
- 50ml Parmesan, grated
- 50ml mature cheddar
- 50ml butter
CHAKALAKA
- 40ml butter
- 40ml olive oil
- 1 large onion, diced
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 large red pepper, diced
- 1 large yellow pepper, diced
- 1 large green pepper, diced
- 4 large carrots, grated
- 2 small red chillies, seeded and diced
- pinch of saffron
- 1 x 215g tin baked beans in tomato sauce
- salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
1
To make the pap, bring the water with the salt to a rolling boil, sprinkle the maize meal over and boil for 15 minutes.
2
Stir with a fork to obtain a crumbly consistency, lower the heat, cover partially and simmer for 30 minutes.
3
Mix the cheese and butter until well creamed and stir into the maize meal just before serving.
4
For the chakalaka, heat the butter and olive oil in a frying pan and fry the onion until transparent. Add the garlic and cook for another 3 minutes. Stir in the peppers, carrots, chilli and saffron and cook for 15 minutes.
5
Add the beans and cook for a further 5 minutes.
6
Serve the pap and chakalaka with boerewors straight off the braai.