My mother is in love with the pap (maize meal) porridge that my sister-in-law makes.

She doesn’t get it often when she is with me because I’m more of an All Bran cereal fan. I encourage her to also eat as much fiber as she can during the week. But on weekends we don’t eat cereal. For the past few weeks we’ve been eating a compromised blend of her favourite warm cereal and my favourite warm cereal. A sorghum and maize meal mash up.

Creamy maize meal is loaded with carbs. But fret not it’s surprisingly not as fatty as you think. If you mix it with Sorghum meal, you will discover that because of the slow release of carbohydrates into your system, your blood sugar levels don’t climb as quickly as it normally would.

Fun Facts: Maize is a good source of iron and protein. 100 g creamy maize meal has 328 calories, 8 g protein, 3 g fat and a whopping 72 g carbs. Being a starchy food it will release energy slowly into your bloodstream and keep you full and energized for longer. Sorghum is also packed with goodness but as far as I’m concerned, it’s superpower is it’s protein content. One cup has 21.7 g protein.

Ingredients for two meals

1/4 cup sorghum meal

1/4 cup creamy maize meal

1 1/2 cup water

1 cup milk

1 tbsp peanut butter

nuts is optional

1 tbsp chia seeds

Method

1. Add dry porridge to a non-stick pot and crank the stove to high. Pour in water and start whisking the porridge.

2. Put another stove plate on and leave it to warm on a very low heat.

3. When your porridge starts to thicken, you will feel it in your whisk. Add milk and peanut butter. Whisk, whisk, whisk and when it starts to get thick again move it to the other plate.

4. Give it a last stir with your whisk, close the pot and leave it to simmer for about 5 minutes.

5. Serve hot and sprinkle with nuts for extra healthy fat and chia seeds.