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Bogobe

Name: Bogobe
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Botswana
Ingredients: 150g Buckwheat flour; 100g Corn grits; 1L Water; A pinch Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Sorghum flour cooked into porridge — Botswana's staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bogobe is Botswana's staple, a porridge of sorghum or maize meal cooked in water. Stiff bogobe is eaten with seswaa or stews; soft bogobe is mixed with milk or sour milk for breakfast. Drought-tolerant sorghum has sustained life in a country largely covered by the Kalahari Desert.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Botswana village yard, brownish grain porridge is worked in a three-legged iron pot and spooned onto plates.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Buckwheat flour 150g
Corn grits 100g
Water 1L
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring 800ml water and salt to a boil in a pot.
Add the maize meal mixed with 200ml water and simmer 10 minutes.
Add the buckwheat flour a little at a time, working with a wooden spoon.
Cover and cook on low for 15 minutes, working it occasionally.
Spoon onto plates.

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