{"id":7574,"date":"2012-02-02T13:37:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/minty-mealies\/"},"modified":"2012-02-02T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:37:54","slug":"minty-mealies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/minty-mealies\/","title":{"rendered":"Minty Mealies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>As a young boy in the Transkei, one of Nelson Mandela\u2019s favourite snacks was fresh mealies cooked over an open fire \u2013 you can just imagine the kernels bursting with warm goodness, some slightly charred and nutty.<\/p>\n<p>There is something so visceral about eating food with one\u2019s hands \u2013 some people do this so well that they can \u2018get away with it\u2019 at the most posh of restaurants. Mealies, though, are the great leveller \u2013 you HAVE TO eat them with your hands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 Mealies \u2013 normally one per person<\/li>\n<li>200g Butter<\/li>\n<li>Handful Fresh Mint \u2013 an easy herb that grows prolifically in a herb garden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Method:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cook the mealies to your taste \u2013 If we are braaing, we normally cut each mealie into 3 and cook 4 (12 pieces) in the microwave for 8 minutes. Then we turn them on the fire to get the \u2018gap toothed one or two kernels charred\u2019 look.<\/li>\n<li>Finely chop the fresh mint and add to butter \u2013 melt butter by whizzing in the microwave. Purists may melt the butter on the stove and mix the mint in to get a cloudy nutty butter mix which does go much better with the mealies.<\/li>\n<li>Drizzle mint butter over mealies and serve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Feeds:<\/strong>\u00a0 4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a0 15 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Share your recipes with the Port Elizabeth community HERE.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young boy in the Transkei, one of Nelson Mandela\u2019s favourite snacks was fresh mealies cooked over an open fire \u2013 you can just imagine the kernels bursting with warm goodness, some slightly charred and nutty. There is something so visceral about eating food with one\u2019s hands \u2013 some people do this so well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-7574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}