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Moni

Name: Moni
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mali
Ingredients: 100g Rice flour; 20g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Tamarind paste; 4 tbsp Sugar; 800ml Water; 100ml Milk

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Little millet dumplings cooked into a sweet-sour tamarind porridge — a Malian breakfast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Moni is a breakfast staple in Mali: millet flour is rolled into tiny pellets and cooked in water into a sweet-tart porridge. Soured with tamarind or lemon and sweetened with sugar, it's eaten hot, almost like a drink. Sold at morning roadside stalls, it's the taste that starts the Malian day.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Malian street in the morning, steaming white porridge is poured from a big pot into gourd bowls and sold to people before work.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Rice flour 100g
All-purpose flour 20g
Tamarind paste 2 tsp
Sugar 4 tbsp
Water 800ml
Milk 100ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Sprinkle the rice flour and flour with water a little at a time, rolling with your hands to form small pellets.
Bring 600ml water to a boil in a pot and add the pellets a little at a time, stirring.
Simmer on low for 15 minutes until the pellets plump up.
Dissolve the tamarind in the remaining water, add, and stir in the sugar.
Add the milk, warm through, and pour into bowls.

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