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Wonjo

Name: Wonjo
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: The Gambia
Ingredients: 20g (dried flowers) Hibiscus Tea; 120g Sugar; A pinch Mint Leaves; A pinch Vanilla Extract; 1L Water; To taste Ice

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Hibiscus flowers steeped and scented with mint — The Gambia's red drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Wonjo is The Gambia's red drink of steeped hibiscus flowers, flavored with sugar, mint, and sometimes vanilla and drunk chilled. It's essential at weddings, celebrations, and breaking the Ramadan fast. At markets it's also sold frozen in little plastic bags.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a hot Gambian market, small bags of crimson drink are taken from an ice box and sold to children.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Hibiscus Tea 20g (dried flowers)
Sugar 120g
Mint Leaves A pinch
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Water 1L
Ice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring water to a boil, add the hibiscus, turn off the heat, and let stand 15 minutes.
Strain out the flowers.
Add the sugar and dissolve.
Add the mint and vanilla and chill.
Pour into glasses with ice.

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