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Tabaldi Juice

Name: Tabaldi Juice
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: South Sudan
Ingredients: 50g Baobab Powder; 800ml Water; 80g Sugar; 1 tbsp Lemon juice; To taste Ice

Dessert

⏱ 15 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Baobab fruit powder mixed with water and sugar — South Sudan's sweet-tart drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tabaldi is Arabic for the baobab tree. In South Sudan and Sudan, the white powdery pulp inside baobab fruit is dissolved in water and sweetened into a drink. Gently tart, it's drunk well chilled on hot days.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a hot afternoon in Juba, a pale drink is poured into glasses at a shop in the shade of a huge baobab tree.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Baobab Powder 50g
Water 800ml
Sugar 80g
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Ice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Put the baobab powder and 200ml water in a bowl and mix well to dissolve.
Add the remaining water and sugar and mix.
Strain through a sieve.
Add the lemon juice and chill.
Pour into glasses with ice.

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