Mealie Meal Bread (Maize Meal) - The Tasty Favourite South African Gluten Free Bread! Includes Recipe for Bread Machine! From Kook en Geniet - South Africa!

Serve with fresh butter and or grated cheese – Delish! What is so lovely about this loaf is it slices like a dream – even with a simple butter knife. And all while still hot! 

Mealie meal is a coarsely ground South African flour made from white mielies.

Mealie Meal Bread is my best Gluten Free Bread - and so Yummy! This recipe is for those wanting tasty gluten-free bread or those who love the taste of Mealie Meal or Corn Meal.

You may even serve this in place of your “Pap” with your sous (Plain old Tomato and onion stew) with Wors / Boerewors” at a braai (barbecue) as we do in South Africa ;)

Cooking Time: 1 ½ hour 

This recipe is originally from “Kook en Geniet” South Africa

Notes:

You may use butter, but coconut oil is just as good - I use coconut oil.

250 ml (1 cup measure) milk = 228 g in weight per cup.

You may replace the milk with 750 ml/g of water.

All measures are leveled off with the back of a knife.

Metal pans are the best conductors of heat and will save you time and energy.

Bread may also be steamed in a large coffee tin - just cut away the top edges around the opening. Place a rack/trivet onto the bottom of the pot and fill with water to come about ½ way to 2/3 up the sides of the tin fastened with a cover or lid and with the weight placed over it.

Ingredients:

616 g (1 Liter or x4 250 ml cup measures) Mealie Meal

10 ml salt

112 g (120 ml) coconut oil or butter

750 ml milk (684 g) --or-- 750 ml/grams water

6 large eggs

20 ml baking powder

Method – Includes Bread Machine:

Preheat oven to 180 deg C – OR – if using a bread machine, set it on a bake cycle

Grease a standard loaf tin.

Heat 500 ml milk and blend the remaining 250 ml milk with the mealie meal.

Add the mealie meal, salt, and butter to the hot milk and simmer for a few minutes. Mix well – allow cooling to body temperature – you don’t want to cook or scramble your eggs.

Add the beaten eggs and baking powder. Beat eggs well. Stir the mealie meal mixture gradually into the eggs. Stir in baking powder. Spoon the mixture into a well-greased potjie or standard bread pan and cover with a lid.

Set your crust setting to light, and bake for 1 hour 30 minutes in a bread machine on a bake cycle.

Heat 500 ml of the milk. Mix the remaining milk with the mealie meal. Add mealie meal and milk mixture, salt, and butter to the hot milk and simmer for a few minutes. Beat eggs well. Stir the mealie meal mixture gradually into the eggs. Stir in baking powder. Spoon the mixture into a well-greased potjie or standard bread pan and cover with a lid. Bake in an oven at 180 C or over low heat for 1 ½ hours or until the bread is done.

Test for the doneness of bread by placing a skewer into the highest center point of the loaf. If the skewer comes out clean, the bread pulls slightly away from the sides of the pan and feels springy on top. Remove from the oven and turn it out.

Serve with butter and some freshly grated cheese or even a lovely probiotic, homemade cream cheese if you desire.

Enjoy!