Bumunda

Name: Bumunda
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Tanzanie
Ingredients: 500 g peeled ripe plantain; 200 g fine maize flour, not corn starch; 30 g honey; 100 ml water; 1 g salt; 5 ml oil for wrappers; 6 prepared food-grade banana leaves or 6 oven-safe baking paper squares

🌽 Dense ripe-plantain and maize cakes baked in individual parcels.

Ingredients

500 g peeled ripe plantain
200 g fine maize flour, not corn starch
30 g honey
100 ml water
1 g salt
5 ml oil for wrappers
6 prepared food-grade banana leaves or 6 oven-safe baking paper squares

Preparation

Preheat static oven to 180 °C. Finely mash 500 g peeled ripe plantain. Mix with maize flour, honey, salt and the 100 ml water added gradually to make a thick shapeable dough.

Prepare 6 clean softened food-grade banana-leaf wrappers or suitable baking paper. Lightly grease with the 5 ml oil across all wrappers.

Divide into 6 cakes about 2 cm thick, close parcels and place on a tray. Bake wrapped 50 minutes, then carefully open away from escaping steam and bake uncovered 10 more minutes.

Cool 10 minutes. Check a cake has a set centre with no raw flour

extend cooking if needed. Serve 6 portions of 1 cake. Wrappers are not edible. Total: 20 minutes preparation, 60 baking and 10 cooling.