Recipe: At Home Porridge or Uji

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Recipe: At Home Porridge or Uji Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Porridge or Uji. Great recipe for Porridge or Uji. I usually like to welcome my guests with organic rich beverages unlike the commercialized soft drinks full of colour and fizz yet unhealthy, I remember one case scenario where a friend told me porridge makes her have headache's!!! so I don't know how you like. Uji, also known as the Kenyan Fermented Porridge, is the ultimate comfort breakfast food that is packed with probiotics.

Making this porridge takes about six minutes to cook and is a really quick, healthy and delicious recipe.

With the morning hours getting too busy at times, this millet porridge recipe can come to your rescue as a quick instant breakfast.

Uji is an East African dish eaten for breakfast.

You can cook Porridge or Uji using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Porridge or Uji

  1. Prepare 1 cup of mixed flour.

  2. It’s 1/2 cup of Sugar.

  3. Prepare 1 of lemon.

  4. Prepare 5 cups of Water.

It is a thin porridge made from a combination of millet, corn, and/or sorghum flours.

This dish is also known as Ogi, Akama, Akamu, Burukutu, Mahewu, Pap, Pito.

With the combination of millet, corn, and sorghum flours, this recipe is a gluten free recipe.

Uji Recipe Uji/Porridge is an authentic Kenyan dish.

Porridge or Uji step by step

  1. Place the 1cup of your mixed flour in a clean bowl add water and mix well to form a paste like consistency. I prefer adding my sugar at this level..

  2. Take a clean sufuria or deep pan add the 5 cups of water and bring to boil.

  3. Add the pasty mixed flour into the boiling water and stir continuously.

  4. Let it simmer on low heat for 5 mins till its ready for serving.

  5. Serve and garnish with a slice of lemon or favourite accompaniment e.g cake, bread,chapati, nuts,fruits etc you can take it hot,warm or cold.

There are many variations of it depending on whom you are talking to and their cultural background.

The diversity of the Kenyan culture plays a big role on the food choices in our homes.

In our case, let's go with uji wa wimbi -usuu (Wimbi Porridge).

This is made using millet flour.

Porridge (uji), not the most exciting breakfast for most people.