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Dikgobe

Name: Dikgobe
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Botswana
Ingredients: 150g Barley; 200g (cooked) Red kidney beans; 1 Onion; 30g Butter; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 1L Water

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Cracked corn and beans cooked together — Botswana's simple staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Dikgobe is a traditional Botswana dish: cracked corn (samp) or sorghum grains are boiled tender with kidney beans or black-eyed peas and seasoned with salt and butter or oil. Filling, it's eaten with meat stews or as a meal on its own.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Botswana village courtyard, beans and corn kernels bubble in a three-legged iron pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Barley 150g
Red kidney beans 200g (cooked)
Onion 1
Butter 30g
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 1L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the barley and simmer in water for 40 minutes.
Add the kidney beans and simmer 20 minutes.
Cook down until little liquid remains.
Add the chopped onion sautéed in butter.
Season with salt and pepper.

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