• 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

    Serves: 6
    Total Time: 1 hour 10 mins

    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.

    Author

    Imka Webb is a freelance digital marketing expert and the digital editor of Food & Home Entertaining magazine.  www.imkawebb.com

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