About this dish
A lightly fermented, sweet maize and millet drink, mild and refreshing.
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Ingredients
🌽2 cups maize flour
🌾1/2 cup millet flour
💧6 cups water
🍬1/4 cup sugar
Method
Serves 21
Mix maize flour with a little water into a paste and cook briefly to form a thin porridge.2
Cool the porridge, then mix in millet flour as a fermenting agent.3
Cover and let ferment at room temperature for 1-2 days until lightly sour and slightly fizzy.4
Sweeten with sugar to taste.5
Strain and serve chilled.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Thobwa is a traditional Malawian fermented beverage, commonly enjoyed as a refreshing, mildly sweet drink.
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