Papa le Moroho

Stiff maize porridge with wild greens — the everyday meal.

Ingredients

• 3 cups Maize meal
• 6 cups Water
• 500 g Wild greens
• 1 Onion
• 2 Tomatoes
• 3 tbsp Oil
• 2 tsp Salt

Method

1. Boil the water — Bring salted water to a hard boil.
2. Add maize gradually — Sprinkle it in while stirring hard so no lumps form.
3. Cook stiff — Stir over low heat 25 minutes until it pulls away from the pot.
4. Cook the greens — Fry the onion and tomato, add the chopped greens and a splash of water, and cook 15 minutes.
5. Papa is ready — Serve the stiff porridge with the greens beside it, eaten with the hand.

More Lesotho recipes

• Lesotho Nama
• Lesotho Sesotho Bread
• Likhobe