Poudine Mais is a Mauritian dessert made with corn meal. For this month’s Daring Cook’s challenge, Rachael of Pizzarossa challenged the cooks to try out recipes using corn meal. She provided recipes for fritters, pastry and a sweet. I selected the sweet. In Madurai I don’t get corn meal but get broken maize. They are not the same but broken maize can be substituted for corn meal. The grains are a bit larger and takes a lot of time to cook. I also increased the liquid used in the recipe to cook the broken maize. Friends suggested running it through the mixer to break it down so that it cooks faster. I haven’t tried it yet. Also the sugar in the original recipe was only 1 1/2tbs but I increased the quantity to 1/2cup. It was very delicious and soft. I thought the dish resembled south Indian kesari a little bit.
Ingredients:
Corn Meal/ Broken Maize-1cup
Water-1 1/2cups (if using corn meal, add 1cup)
Milk-1 1/2cups (if using corn meal, add 1 cup)
Sugar-1/2cup
Ghee/ Clarified Butter-1tbs
Vanilla Essence-1/2tsp
Golden Raisins-3tbs
Grated Coconut-3tbs+2tbs
Procedure:
- Wash and soak the corn meal in 1 1/2cups of water for 2-3hours.
- Place it on stove and let it start bubbling.
- Reduce flame and add all the other ingredients leaving 2 tbs of grated coconut.
- Cook until the mixture becomes a thick porridge and leaves sides.
- Pour it into a greased square 7”cake tin.
- Sprinkle the grated coconut evenly on top.
- Allow it to cool.
- Place it in refrigerator for 2hours.
- Slice it into squares and serve chilled.
Take a piece!
Looks delicious.
they look good.
Yummy recipie
yummy sweet…
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That’s very innovative!
wow this sweet looks so yummy
Beautiful dessert
Gorgeous dessert!! Looks so perfect 🙂
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That looks divine!
That looks absolutely wonderful, it turned out far better then my attempt. I too realized after the fact the need to cook longer though I used cornmeal, and that if making again I would need to add much more sugar then the recipe originally called for. I am glad to see that your attempt was a success!
That looks really delicious – I just might have to give that a try!! Really great work on the challenge.
sweet looks delicious… The addition of grated coconut on top adds to the taste and presentation…
Yum ….it looks perfect n so fab …love the last pic
I love the clicks and looks so delicious!
wow something very new!
That looks so good! Beautiful pictures too! 🙂
yummy and delicious tempting sweet.
Looks amazing. Never thought you could make a sophisticated sweet with cornmeal/broken maize!
Wow looks yum.
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Yummi!
Wat is the shelf life? Love this cake
Lové it. Thank you. Never had the recipe but I have been making it since 1980s, with more milk and no butter. My husband who is a fussy eater discover pouding mais in Mauritius and loves it.
Oh that is great to know. Hope I have done justice to the recipe..