Proja – a traditional Serbian cornmeal dish

After having tasted the amazing proja for breakfast in Belgrade that Ashwita cooked for us, I was determined to make it at home. It can be prepared with ordinary corn flour, but since I had brought with me the corn flour that remained in Belgrade, I used it up for my first attempt. I had to do some modification to the basic recipe as the cheese used in the recipe is not available in Belgaum. Instead I used milk cream and there was no compromise in the taste!

Ingredients:

100 gms corn flour

1 cup water

2 cups milk

1 cup milk cream

A pinch of salt

1 tbsp butter

1 tbsp chia seeds

Instruction:

-          Add the water, milk and milk cream to the corn flour and mix thoroughly, without any lumps.

-          Keep on medium flame and keep stirring, for about 15 minutes ( add salt in between, when it starts thickening) till it becomes quite thick and starts separating from the sides

-          Pat it down onto a shallow container and allow to cool.

-          Cut it into pieces.

-          Heat the butter, add chia seeds. Toss in the proja, stir and let the pieces be coated well with the chia 

       seeds.

-          Serve hot.