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Kossam

Name: Kossam
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Guinea
Ingredients: 400g Yogurt; 200ml Milk; 3 tbsp Sugar; A pinch Vanilla Extract

Dessert

⏱ 10 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Fermented milk sweetened with sugar — the drink of the Fouta Djallon's herders.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kossam means milk in Pular (Fula) and especially refers to milk fermented until sour. It's an essential food for the cattle-raising people of the Fouta Djallon, drunk sweetened with sugar or poured over fonio or corn porridge.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a highland village of the Fouta Djallon, white fermented milk is poured from a gourd for the family in the morning light.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Yogurt 400g
Milk 200ml
Sugar 3 tbsp
Vanilla Extract A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Put the yogurt in a bowl and whisk smooth.
Add the milk a little at a time and mix.
Add the sugar and vanilla.
Chill well in the fridge.
Pour into glasses to serve.

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