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Djindja

Name: Djindja
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Guinea
Ingredients: 200g Ginger; 1.2L Water; 150g Sugar; 3 tbsp Lemon juice; A pinch Mint Leaves

Dessert

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Grated ginger with lemon and sugar — Guinea's fiery, refreshing drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Djindja is Guinea's ginger drink: fresh ginger is grated and steeped in water, lemon and sugar are added, and it's strained. Fiery and spicy, it's drunk well chilled on hot days. It's sold in plastic bags by the roadside and served at celebrations.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Conakry roadside, chilled ginger drink is pulled from a cooler box and handed to children.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Ginger 200g
Water 1.2L
Sugar 150g
Lemon juice 3 tbsp
Mint Leaves A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel and grate the ginger.
Add water, mix well, and let stand 30 minutes.
Strain through a cloth or sieve, squeezing well.
Add the sugar and lemon juice and dissolve.
Chill well in the fridge and float mint on top.

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