Bassi Salte

Name: Bassi Salte
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Senegalese
Ingredients: 3 cups millet couscous; 500g beef or lamb, cubed; 2 carrots; 1 cup pumpkin, cubed

Bassi-Salté/BAH-see sal-TAY/

About this dish

A festive millet couscous dish layered with meat and vegetables, a Senegalese specialty.

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Ingredients

🌾3 cups millet couscous

🥩500g beef or lamb, cubed

🥕2 carrots

🎃1 cup pumpkin, cubed

Method

Serves 4

Steam the millet couscous over a simmering meat and vegetable stew, using a couscoussier.

Simmer the meat with tomato, carrot, and pumpkin until tender.

Fluff the steamed couscous with a little oil or butter.

Mound the couscous on a platter, topping with the meat and vegetables.

Serve hot.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Bassi-salté is a traditional Senegalese celebratory dish, made from steamed millet couscous with meat and vegetables.

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