🍲 Ugali (Maize Porridge)

Name: Ugali (Maize Porridge)
Ingredients: 4 cups white cornmeal or ground maize; 8 cups water; Salt to taste (optional)

African · 3 ingredients · 4 steps

Ugali, a porridge-like dish made with maize meal, is a staple dish in Kenya and in Tanzania.

This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

4 cups white cornmeal or ground maize
8 cups water
Salt to taste (optional)

Method

Boil the water in a saucepan.
Add salt if desired, and pour the corn flour slowly into boiling water, stirring continuously. Try to mash up any lumps that do form—the aim is to get a smooth consistency. A whisk makes this easier, as does sifting the flour.
Continue to cook, stirring constantly, until it has the consistency of thick oatmeal.
Serve hot ugali immediately with any meat or vegetable stew, or any dish with a sauce or gravy.

Where this came from. Adapted from Ugali (Maize Porridge) in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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