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Bissap

Name: Bissap
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Senegal
Ingredients: 40g Hibiscus (dried); 1.5L Water; 100g Sugar; 1 sprig Mint Leaves; A pinch Vanilla Extract; To taste Ice

Dessert

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Dried hibiscus flowers steeped and scented with mint and vanilla — Senegal's crimson national drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bissap is a sweet-tart drink made by steeping roselle (hibiscus) calyces, loved as Senegal's national drink. It's known for its deep red color and the aroma of mint, vanilla, or orange flower water. It's essential for breaking the Ramadan fast and at weddings and other celebrations, and 'ice bissap' frozen in plastic bags is a children's favorite.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a sun-baked street, people take cold bags of bissap from a cooler box and walk along drinking from a bitten-off corner.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Hibiscus (dried) 40g
Water 1.5L
Sugar 100g
Mint Leaves 1 sprig
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Ice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the hibiscus lightly.
Bring the water and hibiscus to a boil in a pot and simmer on low for 10 minutes.
Turn off the heat, add the mint leaves, and let stand 10 minutes.
Strain through a sieve and dissolve in the sugar.
Add the vanilla and chill well in the fridge.
Pour into glasses with ice.

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