World Cuisines

Bogobe

Botswana

The sorghum porridge: bogobe — a smooth sorghum (or maize) porridge, sometimes fermented (bogobe jwa ting) into a tangy soft porridge for breakfast. Ingredients: sorghum meal, water, salt; ting version: fermented with sorghum bran starter.

What it is

The sorghum porridge: bogobe — a smooth sorghum (or maize) porridge, sometimes fermented (bogobe jwa ting) into a tangy soft porridge for breakfast. Ingredients: sorghum meal, water, salt; ting version: fermented with sorghum bran starter. Recipe: 1) Boil water; whisk in meal. 2) Cook, stirring, to a smooth porridge. 3) For ting: ferment the starter into the porridge for its sour depth. 4) Serve hot. Serve: with seswaa and morogo at feasts, or with milk and sugar at breakfast. Flavor: earthy sorghum, tangy when fermented. History: sorghum is Botswana's drought-wise grain; bogobe is its thousand-year form. See also: Seswaa, Morogo (Botswana).

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