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Bogobe jwa Lerotse

Name: Bogobe jwa Lerotse
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Botswana
Ingredients: 300g Pumpkin; 100g Buckwheat flour; 2 tsp Sugar; A pinch Salt; 400ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Kalahari melon (lerotse) worked together with sorghum flour — Botswana's sweet porridge.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bogobe jwa lerotse is a traditional Botswana dish: lerotse, a native melon grown in the Kalahari, is cooked and mashed, then worked together with sorghum flour. Gently sweet and fragrant, it's eaten with seswaa or given to children. It makes the most of the dry land's bounty.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Kalahari village in Botswana, yellow melons from the field are cooked in a pot, worked together with grain flour, and spooned into bowls.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Pumpkin 300g
Buckwheat flour 100g
Sugar 2 tsp
Salt A pinch
Water 400ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel and seed the pumpkin and dice.
Simmer in a pot with water for 15 minutes until tender.
Mash with a wooden spoon.
Work in the buckwheat flour a little at a time and cook on low for 15 minutes.
Season with sugar and salt.

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