Easiest Way to Cooking Eating on a Dime Uji-porridge

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Easiest Way to Cooking Eating on a Dime Uji-porridge Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Uji-porridge. Uji, also known as the Kenyan Fermented Porridge, is the ultimate comfort breakfast food which is packed with probiotics. It is made of dried maize, millet and/or sorghum that is made wet with water and left to ferment for a few days before cooking. Uji/Porridge is an authentic Kenyan dish.

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

This is made using millet flour.

Bring the water in the sufuria to a boil, then pour in the flour paste.

You can cook Uji-porridge using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Uji-porridge

  1. Prepare of wimbi flour.

  2. It’s of water.

  3. You need of milk.

  4. It’s of Sugar.

Fermented brown uji (porridge) is even more loved.

Just so you know how much I love porridge I also have another recipe on how to make fermented uji from fresh maize.

Uji is an East African dish eaten for breakfast.

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

Uji-porridge instructions

  1. Dissolve wimbi in a little cold water till paste like texture.

  2. Boil two cups of water in a sufuria.

  3. Add the wimbi paste and stir till it starts boiling to avoid having lumps.

  4. Boil for 6 minutes add the milk stir in the sugar.

  5. Serve.

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

Usuu wa kukia is one of those dishes that evoke such nostalgic memories in me.

My mother would take her time to prepare and make it for us.

It was such a labour of love, trust me when I say this.

It uses ground sesame seeds, flax meal and almond flour.