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Madeeda

Name: Madeeda
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Sudan
Ingredients: 10 Dates; 3 tbsp Rice flour; 400ml Milk; 200ml Water; 1 tbsp Sugar; A pinch Cinnamon powder

Dessert

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Dates simmered and thickened with rice flour — a warm Sudanese porridge.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Madeeda is a warm, drinkable porridge eaten in Sudan at breakfast and to break the Ramadan fast. Dates, rice flour, or sorghum flour are cooked in milk or water for sweetness and body. Considered nourishing, it's a home dish also made for new mothers and the sick.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At sunset during Ramadan in Sudan, a steaming bowl of brown porridge is set on the fast-breaking table with a plate of dates.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Dates 10
Rice flour 3 tbsp
Milk 400ml
Water 200ml
Sugar 1 tbsp
Cinnamon powder A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Pit and chop the dates, simmer with water for 10 minutes, and mash.
Add the milk and warm through.
Add the rice flour dissolved in a little water.
Cook on low for 5 minutes, stirring constantly, until thick.
Sweeten with sugar and dust with cinnamon.

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