Ingredients
ServingsOriginal: Serves 6
- Medium cornmeal300 g
- Water1.2 l
- Butter60 g
- Brined cheese, crumbled200 g
- Soured creamto taste
- Salt2 tsp
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 5 steps
Bring the salted water to the boil. Set aside a handful of the meal; it is wanted at the end.
Pour the meal in as a thin stream, whisking without stopping. Do not pause until all of it is in.
Drop to the lowest heat and cook thirty minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon every three or four minutes. The mass pulls away from the sides.
Add the reserved handful of meal and work it in: it gives the light graininess mămăligă is valued for.
Stir in the butter, turn it out onto a board and let it stand five minutes. Cut it into slabs with thread and serve with the cheese and soured cream.
