CHAKERY
Chakery is a pudding made from couscous bathed in a
sweet mix preparation.
Cooking Ingredients:
1 cup of unsweetened evaporated milk
2 cups of plain unsweetened yogurt
1 cup of sour cream
Cup of chopped unsweetened pineapples or other fruit
Pinch of nutmeg (optional)
Vanilla extract (couple of drops for flavouring)
Couscous (instant) or cook it yourself
Sugar to taste
Preparation Method:
• Mix
all the ingredients, except the couscous, to make the
sweet mix.
• Cook the couscous separately
in water. Instant couscous soaked in water will suffice.
• Pour the sweet mix onto the couscous.
LAKH
or LAH
This dessert is a kind of sweetened porridge mix made
from the fruits of the baobab tree, millet couscous
and peanut butter.
Cooking Ingredients:
1 cup of smooth, unsweetened peanut butter
2 tablespoons of butter
4 cups of baobab fruit
2 cups millet couscous
1 drop of orange essence (optional)
Sugar to taste
1 pinch of nutmeg
1/2 cup of raisins
3 drops of vanilla essence
Preparation Method:
• Soak
the baobab fruit in a bowl of warm water and leave for
several hours.
• Separate the fruit
pulp from the seeds by hand. Strain and remove the seeds.
• Cook the couscous or use instant couscous.
Add butter and mix then put in the fridge once cool.
• Mix the baobab juice and peanut butter
in equal parts. Add all the other ingredients, except
the couscous, and stir well. Place in the fridge until
cool.
• When ready to serve mix the sauce
and couscous and add sugar to taste.
•
You can substitute the baobab fruit for some other kind
of unsweetened fruit juice. |
