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CHAKERY
Chakery is a pudding made from couscous bathed in a sweet mix
preparation.
Ingredients:
1 cup of unsweetened evaporated milk
2 cups of plain unsweetened yogurt
1 cup of sour cream
cup of chopped unsweetened pineapples or other fruit
pinch of nutmeg (optional)
Vanilla extract (couple of drops for flavouring)
Couscous (instant) or cook it yourself
Sugar to taste
Preparation Method:
Mix all the ingredients, except the couscous, to make the sweet mix.
Cook the couscous separately in water. Instant couscous soaked in
water will suffice. Pour the sweet mix onto the couscous. |
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LAKH OR LAH
This dessert is a kind of sweetened porridge mix made from the
fruits of the baobab tree, millet couscous and peanut butter.
Ingredients:
1 cup of smooth, unsweetened peanut butter
2 tablespoons of butter
4 cups of baobab fruit
2 cups millet couscous
1 drop of orange essence (optional)
Sugar to taste
1 pinch of nutmeg
1/2 cup of raisins
3 drops of vanilla essence
Preparation Method:
Soak the baobab fruit in a bowl of warm water and leave for
several hours.
Separate the fruit pulp from the seeds by hand. Strain and
remove the seeds.
Cook the couscous or use instant couscous. Add butter and mix
then put in the fridge once cool.
Mix the baobab juice and peanut butter in equal parts. Add all
the other ingredients, except the couscous, and stir well. Place
in the fridge until cool.
When ready to serve mix the sauce and couscous and add sugar to
taste.
You can substitute the baobab fruit for some other kind of
unsweetened fruit juice. |
See also
Restaurants

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Culture
& Traditions
Food Explanations
Afra
Beef Stew
Catfish Stew
Cherreh
Chicken Yassa

Desserts
Peanut Stew-Domoda

Fish
Stew
Yam
Dumplings - Fufu
Jollof Rice - Benachin

Okra Stew - Superkanja
Plasas -
Spinach Stew
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