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Boule

Name: Boule
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chad
Ingredients: 300g Precooked Corn Flour; 100g Millet Flour; 900ml Water; A pinch Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Millet or sorghum flour worked stiff and shaped into rounds — Chad's staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Boule means 'ball' in French and is Chad's most common staple. Millet, sorghum, or maize flour is worked stiff in boiling water and shaped into rounds in a bowl. It's topped with okra or meat sauce and torn off by hand to eat.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Chadian village courtyard, several round boules sit in a big bowl under a pour of okra sauce as the family gathers around.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Precooked Corn Flour 300g
Millet Flour 100g
Water 900ml
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring 600ml water to a boil in a pot and add salt.
Mix a third of the flour with the remaining water, add to the pot, and cook into a porridge.
Add the remaining flour a little at a time and work vigorously with a wooden spoon.
Cover and steam on low for 5 minutes, then work again.
Pack into a wet bowl to shape into a round and turn out onto a plate.

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