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Lakh

Name: Lakh
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mauritania
Ingredients: 150g Couscous; 300g Plain yogurt; 4 tbsp Sugar; A pinch Vanilla Extract; A pinch Nutmeg; 10g Butter; 150ml Water

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Steamed millet grains topped with sweet yogurt — a porridge of Mauritania and West Africa.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Lakh is a millet dish eaten in Mauritania and Senegal: the flour is rolled into small grains and steamed, then topped with yogurt or fermented milk sweetened with sugar and vanilla. It's made for breakfast or dessert and for celebration meals.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning in a Mauritanian home, plenty of sweet white yogurt is poured over grainy porridge in a wooden bowl.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Couscous 150g
Plain yogurt 300g
Sugar 4 tbsp
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Nutmeg A pinch
Butter 10g
Water 150ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Add boiling water and butter to the couscous, cover, and let steam 5 minutes.
Fluff with a fork and cool.
Mix the yogurt with the sugar and vanilla.
Spoon the couscous into bowls and pour the yogurt over.
Sprinkle with nutmeg.

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