eSwatini: Mealie Bread and Slaii

CLICK HERE FOR SLAII RECIPE

CLICK HERE FOR MEALIE BREAD RECIPE

eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) was a bit of a challenge for me. As with many of the smaller African countries, it was difficult to find a recipe that sounded good and that I could acquire the ingredients to make. There ARE things you can't buy on Amazon (fresh produce/fresh meats).

So, I ended up following the lead of someone who also did this international meal thing (only a million times better than me, her site is terrific) and made mealie bread and slaii. Mealie bread is a type of cornbread and slaii is a salad loaded with avocado. I will link the slaii recipe in the comments. It was a good salad and it tastes exactly like one would expect upon reading the ingredients.

But I really want to talk about the mealie bread which is a terrible name for something that is absolutely delicious. I'm not a huge fan of cornbread, it's fine but I've never craved it or been wowed by it. Mealie Bread is very similar to corn bread but is sweeter and has a stronger corn flavor. Fresh out of the oven, with softened butter on it, it is sublime. I ate much more mealie bread than I did slaai. I felt like I needed to apologize to the slaii for how overshadowed it was by the mealie bread.

I will definitely make mealie bread again in the future. While I did have to use a food processor to break the corn down a bit, it wasn't overly difficult to make and it would pair well with pretty much everything the goes with corn bread.