Description
Stiff porridge
Ingredients
Directions
- Heat a cup of water to boiling in a medium-size saucepan.
- Meanwhile, in a bowl or measuring cup, gradually add ¾ cup of the cornmeal to the milk, stirring briskly to make a smooth paste.
- Add the mixture to the boiling water, continuing to stir constantly.
- Cook for 4 or 5 minutes while adding the remaining cornmeal.
- When the mixture begins to pull away from the sides of the pot and stick together, remove from heat.
- Dump bidia into a bowl.
- Then, with damp hands, shape it into a smooth ball, flipping it so that the rounded sides of the bowl help to smooth it.
- Serve immediately.
- To eat in the traditional manner, tear off a small chunk and make an indentation in it with your thumb.
- Use this hollow as a “bowl” to scoop up sauces and stews.
- Variations : for a less conventional, but delicious porridge, dump half a cup of yellow cornmeal into a cup or more of boiling water.
- It will form lumps, but if you stir and mash vigorously with a strong wire whisk, the lumps will disappear.
- Add more cornmeal as necessary until you have a consistency similar to cream of wheat.
- Cook for 3 or 4 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Serve hot.