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Thobwa

Name: Thobwa
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Malawi
Ingredients: 100g Corn grits; 2 tbsp Bread flour; 3 tbsp Sugar; 1.2L Water

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Fermented maize and millet — Malawi's sweet-sour traditional drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Thobwa is a traditional Malawian drink: sprouted millet flour is added to a thin maize porridge and left to ferment overnight. Gently sweet, sour, and thick, it contains almost no alcohol. It's drunk at festivals, gatherings, and during breaks from field work.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Malawian village gathering, a thick sweet-sour drink is poured from a big pot into cups and passed around.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Corn grits 100g
Bread flour 2 tbsp
Sugar 3 tbsp
Water 1.2L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer the water and maize meal in a pot for 20 minutes, stirring, to make a thin porridge.
Cool to body temperature.
Mix in the bread flour and sugar.
Cover and leave overnight at room temperature to ferment until faintly sour.
Chill and drink.

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