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 Tô

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Tô

Side Dish
⏱ 30 min
👥 Serves 4
Difficulty ⭐

Millet or maize flour worked into a stiff paste — Mali's everyday staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tô is the staple of Mali and Burkina Faso: millet, sorghum, or maize flour worked stiff in boiling water. A little tamarind or other acid helps it set. It's eaten with stretchy sauces of okra or baobab leaves, rolled by hand and dipped in the sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Malian village kitchen, a woman turns a long paddle through grain flour in a big pot and serves the rounded paste with a stretchy green sauce.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Bring 800ml water and the lemon juice to a boil in a pot.

  2. Add 100g of the maize meal mixed with 200ml water and simmer 10 minutes into a thin porridge.

  3. Set aside half the porridge in another bowl.

  4. Work the remaining meal into the porridge in the pot a little at a time until stiff, then return the reserved porridge and keep working.

  5. Shape into rounds using a wet bowl.

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