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Munkoyo

Name: Munkoyo
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Zambia
Ingredients: 100g Corn grits; 3 tbsp Sugar; 1 tbsp Bread flour; 1.2L Water

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Maize porridge fermented with a plant root — Zambia's traditional drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Munkoyo is a traditional Zambian drink: the root of the munkoyo plant is added to thin maize porridge to sweeten it, and it ferments overnight. Gently sweet and tangy, it contains almost no alcohol. It's drunk on hot days, at celebrations, and at village gatherings.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Zambian village gathering, a sweet-sour white drink is poured from a big container into cups and passed around.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Corn grits 100g
Sugar 3 tbsp
Bread flour 1 tbsp
Water 1.2L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer the water and maize meal in a pot for 20 minutes, stirring, to make a thin porridge.
Cool to body temperature.
Mix in the bread flour and sugar.
Cover and leave overnight at room temperature to ferment until faintly sour.
Chill and drink.

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