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Fura da Nono

Name: Fura da Nono
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Niger
Ingredients: 100g Rice flour; 400g Yogurt; 200ml Milk; 1/2 knob Ginger; 3 tbsp Sugar; 60ml Water

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Millet dumplings broken into fermented milk — a drink of Niger and northern Nigeria.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fura da nono means 'fura and milk' in Hausa: fura are dumplings of millet flour kneaded with ginger and spices, steamed, and rolled, and nono is fermented cow's milk. The fura is broken into the fermented milk, sweetened, and drunk. Fulani women sell it at markets as nourishment on hot days.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Nigerien market, a Fulani woman crumbles dumplings into fermented milk in a gourd, adds sugar, and hands it over.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Rice flour 100g
Yogurt 400g
Milk 200ml
Ginger 1/2 knob
Sugar 3 tbsp
Water 60ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the rice flour with the grated ginger and water, divide into 6, and roll into balls.
Steam for 15 minutes.
While hot, pound with a pestle, roll into balls again, and cool.
Mix the yogurt, milk, and sugar.
Crumble in the dumplings by hand, mix well, and pour into glasses.

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