Recipe: Perfect Porridge-uji

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Recipe: Perfect Porridge-uji Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Porridge-uji. 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. Millet porridge (also known as "uji wa wimbi" in Swahili) is our star in the morning, because not only is it healthy, but also really easy to make.

We are told, "you are what you eat," at times I wonder what that really means, but let's flow with for now and make a slight change to our breakfast routine by introducing porridge (Uji) as our breakfast option at least once a week.

Uji/Porridge is an authentic Kenyan dish.

Uji is an East African dish eaten for breakfast.

You can have Porridge-uji using 2 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Porridge-uji

  1. It’s 4-6 scoop of spoons of finger millet,pure wimbi or uji mix unga.

  2. Prepare of and take a cup fill with cold water. stirred it using spoon.

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.

The cold season is here and there is no better way to start your day with a hot bowl of nutritious uji ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿฝ.

My adventure with uji continues and today we enjoyed a hot bowl of uji with apple, banana drizzled with honey ๐Ÿ˜‹.

Porridge-uji step by step

  1. Boil 6 cups of water,add the paste to boiling water and start stirring it slowly.and add water to required it thickness.

  2. Cook it under moderate heat.

  3. Add 4 spoons of sugar to taste well.

  4. Serve its while still hot or warm according to the rule of nature, it's good to serve hot as desire.

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

Most especially the way my mother makes it.

How to prepare Finger millet flour How to prepare Soya bean flour Clean the finger millet by removing all the foreign materials like stones and grass.

Sundry on a raised platform to avoid Pronunciation: Add to Favorite: Porridge - uji ← Porpoise porringer → Other Refferences : The Definition Dictionary.com Merriam Webster Wikipedia.

There are three meals a day.