🇳🇬 How to Make Kunu

Craving Kunu? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Kunu at home, in about 40 min + overnight soak, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 2 cups millet (or a mix of millet and sorghum), soaked overnight
• 1 thumb ginger
• 4 cloves
• a small piece of sweet potato (the thickener)
• sugar to taste
• 4 cups water

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Soak the grain overnight until swollen and soft enough to crush between your fingers.
2. Blend the soaked grain with the ginger, cloves and sweet potato and about 3 cups of water until completely smooth.
3. Strain through muslin or a fine sieve, wringing hard. Discard the chaff.
4. Divide the strained liquid: boil two-thirds, keep one-third cold and raw.
5. Pour the cold raw third into the boiling pot while stirring hard and fast. This flash-cooks it into a smooth, drinkable slurry — pour slowly and you get lumps.
6. Sweeten, cool, and chill. Kunu is served cold and thin enough to drink from a glass, not spooned.