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Burkinabé Cuisine

↳ from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

The Sahel staple is tô, a millet or maize porridge, eaten with sauces. Dolo, a millet beer, is the popular drink.

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Specialties

History

Burkina Faso's peoples (Mossi, Bobo and others) grow millet and sorghum, which fill most meals.

Ingredients

  • Millet
  • Sorghum
  • Maize
  • Leaf sauce
  • Peanuts
  • Shea butter
  • Baobab leaves

How it's made

  1. Boil water and stir in flour to a thick paste (tô)
  2. Make sauce of leaves, okra or peanuts
  3. Eat tô with the sauce
  4. Drink dolo or bissap
to drink

What Burkina Faso drinks

Dolo (millet beer), bissap, zoom-koom

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