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Oshikundu

Name: Oshikundu
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Namibia
Ingredients: 50g Buckwheat flour; 50g Corn grits; 1 tbsp Bread flour; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1L Water

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Fermented millet and sorghum — a traditional drink of northern Namibia.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Oshikundu is a traditional drink of the Ovambo people of northern Namibia, drunk every day: pearl millet flour is mixed with hot water, sprouted sorghum flour is added, and it ferments for about half a day. It's faintly sour and thick. With such a short fermentation it contains almost no alcohol, and is drunk by children and adults alike.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a northern Namibian village home, a pale drink poured into a gourd is passed around the family on a hot afternoon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Buckwheat flour 50g
Corn grits 50g
Bread flour 1 tbsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Water 1L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring 500ml water to a boil in a pot and stir in the buckwheat flour and maize meal mixed with water.
Simmer 5 minutes until thick, add the remaining water, and cool to body temperature.
Mix in the bread flour and sugar.
Cover and leave at room temperature for half a day to ferment until faintly sour.
Chill and drink.

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