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Walwal

Name: Walwal
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: South Sudan
Ingredients: 200g Rice flour; 100g Precooked Corn Flour; 700ml Water; A pinch Salt; 20g Butter

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Sorghum flour rolled into small pellets and cooked — South Sudan's staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Walwal is the staple of South Sudan's Dinka and Nuer peoples: sorghum flour is sprinkled with water and rolled by hand into small pellets, then cooked. Chewy in texture, it's eaten with milk, butter, or meat and fish sauces. It has been handed down through a herding life centered on cattle.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a cattle-camp village in South Sudan, a woman rolls flour by hand into pellets in a big bowl and cooks them in a pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Rice flour 200g
Precooked Corn Flour 100g
Water 700ml
Salt A pinch
Butter 20g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the rice flour and maize meal and sprinkle in 100ml water a little at a time, working with your fingertips into small pellets.
Bring the remaining water and salt to a boil in a pot.
Add the pellets a little at a time, stirring gently with a wooden spoon.
Simmer on low for 15 minutes until the pellets turn translucent.
Stir in the butter and serve with sauce.

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