Tô

                                                                                         Receta en español

Tô is the staple dish of Burkina Faso , Mali , Benin or Togo.
They eat  it every day accompanied by sauces, it is served in a common dish and eaten with one hand. It is made with sorghum , millet, maize or cassava flour by adding water , the same style of other basic dishes like in other African countries as the ones I presented months before: Funge (from Angola) or Bogobe (from Bostwana).
I used millet for the recipe of tô that I took from this Facebook page that has lots of information about food in this country:


 https://www.facebook.com/notes/repas-et-produits-burkinab%C3%A9/recette-du-t%C3%B4/96883276679

Ingredients:

• 200 grams of millet flour .
• Juice of half a lemon or lime.
• 850 ml of water.

Method:

1- Put the flour into a bowl and moisten with 250 ml of water, until slightly creamy.

2- In a saucepan , boil 600 ml of water and add the juice of half a lemon .

3. When the water reaches boiling point add the flour little by little in small quantities, continuously stirring , the mixture will thicken slowly , it is done when the mixture separates easily from the walls of the saucepan.

4-  This is how it looks like: 

Tô is served with sauces , here you have an example with chicken and peanut sauce :

My comments to the recipe

It is simple to make , perhaps a little heavy because you have to stirr continuously to avoid it from burning , be careful when flour is hot because the bubbles make the flour splash and you can be burned , to prevent it just stirr continuosly.

Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:  

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