Creamy Microwave Pap recipe by Ruhana Ebrahim

Ingredients

• 1 cup mielie meal
• 2 cups water
• Salt (to taste)
• Pepper (to taste)
• 60g butter + 1 tablespoon
• 1 cup full cream milk
• ½ tin creamstyle sweetcorn,
• ½ teaspoon ground green chillies,
• Aromat (a South African Spice) to taste,
• Pinch garlic paste,
• Grated gouda cheese.
• 1. Mix mielie meal with water in a microwave safe bowl.
• 2. Cook for 5min.
• 3. Remove from microwave. Fluff with a fork.
• 4. In another bowl, warm milk and butter and mix together.
• 5. Pour into mielie meal and mix in.
• 6. Place back in microwave for another 5-10min, or until the liquid has absorbed, without drying the pap out. Check at 5min, mix and put back in if needed, which I usually do.
• 7. Remove from microwave, checking that it is cooked, soft and not gritty.
• 8. Season with salt and pepper, adding in the additional 1 tablespoon butter if desired, mix in and serve.
• 9. Season with Aromat (a South African Spice) to taste, then mix in garlic, chillies, corn & cheese.
• 10. Mix in whilst hot.