How To Cook Phuthu Pap - How To Cook. In this video, i show you how to make fluffy phuthu pap / krummel pap / umphokoqo, in a simple way. Now, add the cooked phutu and cheese to the sauce and stir lightly using a fork to keep the mixture crumbly.
Phutu Recipe Food like Amma used to make it
Watch your putu pap carefully to ensure it does not burn at the base. Boil the water, add the braai pap in a pile in the middle of the saucepan. Stir frequently until cooked and fluffy. Next, add tomatoes and season to taste. After an hour then open lid and use long fork to mix up well, until fine pieces then close lid for 15min. Cover with a lid and leave simmering for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium and add the maize meal. Cook for 20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. Turn stove down to 2. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for a few minutes.
Stir well with a large fork (i use my large meat fork) to loosen and to form a crumbly texture. Pour the water in the sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Add mielie meel in a heap in the centre of pot. Cook for 20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. Boil water in a pot and add a dash of salt and 3.5 cups of maize meal. After 15min, open lid and use fork again. Now, add the cooked phutu and cheese to the sauce and stir lightly using a fork to keep the mixture crumbly. To make phuthu, bring water to the boil, add salt, pepper and maize meal and stir well with a fork until crumbly in texture. Cover with lid and cook on low heat for 30 minutes, stirring with fork twice throughout cooking. Let boil on high temperature and bring the heat down, and allow to steam with frequent stirring until cooked. (choose a sauce pan that is small enough that there is at least 1/2 inch of water in the bottom.) pour the mieliemeal into the center in a heap without stirring and cover the pot tightly.
