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Kalo

Side Dish
⏱ 20 min
👥 Serves 4
Difficulty ⭐

Finger millet flour cooked into a stiff brown staple — a traditional food of western and northern Uganda.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kalo is a brown staple of finger millet flour cooked stiff in water, a treasured traditional food for people of western and northern Uganda. More nutritious than cornmeal posho, it has a distinctive toasty flavor. It's rolled by hand and eaten with beef or fish stew or peanut sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a hilltop village in western Uganda, a woman vigorously works brown dough with a big wooden paddle and turns the steaming mass into a bowl.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Bring the water to a boil in a pot.

  2. Mix the millet flour and cornmeal and add a little at a time, working vigorously with a wooden spoon.

  3. Reduce the heat and keep working for 8–10 minutes until it forms one glossy mass.

  4. Turn into a wet bowl and shape into a round.

  5. Tear off pieces by hand and eat with stew or peanut sauce.

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