About this dish
A fermented millet porridge served with sweetened, thickened milk, a traditional Senegalese breakfast.
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Ingredients
🌾2 cups millet flour
🥛3 cups sour milk or curdled milk
🍬1/2 cup sugar
🫙4 cups water
Method
Serves 21
Mix millet flour with a little water and let it ferment briefly.2
Bring water to a boil and stir in the fermented millet mixture.3
Cook until thickened into a smooth porridge.4
Sweeten sour milk with sugar.5
Serve the porridge topped with the sweetened milk.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Lakh is a traditional Senegalese millet porridge, commonly eaten for breakfast or during religious observances.
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