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 Guinean Fonio

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Guinean Fonio

Side Dish
⏱ 30 min
👥 Serves 4
Difficulty ⭐

Fonio, the world's smallest grain, steamed and eaten with sauce — Guinea's traditional staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fonio is a tiny grain grown in West Africa for thousands of years, and Guinea is one of the world's leading producers, especially loved in the Fouta Djallon highlands. Its grains are very fine and steam up light and fluffy. It's topped with meat or greens sauce, or with milk for breakfast.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a highland village in Guinea, women pound the tiny grains in a mortar to husk them, and fluffy grain comes out of the steamer in a cloud of steam.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Rinse the fonio and drain in a sieve.

  2. Bring the water and salt to a boil in a pot and add the fonio.

  3. Stir, cover, and cook on very low heat for 5 minutes.

  4. Turn off the heat and let steam 5 minutes.

  5. Add the butter, fluff with a fork, and serve with sauce.

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