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A porridge made with millet. Porridge is a dish made by boiling ground, crushed, or chopped starchy plants (typically grains) in water, milk, [1] or both, with optional flavorings, and is usually served hot in a bowl or dish. It may be served as a sweet or savory dish, depending on the flavourings.
A porridge made from pearl millet is the staple food in Niger and surrounding regions of the Sahel. Oshifima or otjifima, a stiff pearl millet porridge, is the staple food of northern Namibia. Middle Eastern millet porridge, often seasoned with cumin and honey. Munchiro sayo, a millet porridge eaten by the Ainu, a native people of northern Japan.
This dish, primarily made with millet, served with stewed vegetables and meat, cooked in a cauldron, remains a part of modern Ukrainian cuisine. [53] In Germany, it is eaten sweet, for example with milk and berries for breakfast. [54] Millet is the main ingredient in bánh đa kê, a Vietnamese sweet snack.
A woman grinding kasha, an 18th-century drawing by J.-P. Norblin. In Polish, cooked buckwheat groats are referred to as kasza gryczana. Kasza can apply to many kinds of groats: millet (kasza jaglana), barley (kasza jęczmienna), pearl barley (kasza jęczmienna perłowa, pęczak), oats (kasza owsiana), as well as porridge made from farina (kasza manna). [4]
Koko (also Ogi in Yoruba) is a spicy millet porridge. It is a popular Nigerian and Ghanaian street food and commonly consumed as a breakfast meal. It can also be taken in late afternoon as snack. [1] [2] Koko is made from many grains including millet with a few local spices added to give it a particular taste and color. [3]
Koozh is the Tamil name for a porridge made from millet. It is a traditional food in villages of Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu and other places, koozh is consumed as either breakfast or lunch. Koozh is made from Kezhvaragu or Cumbu flour and broken rice, known as noiyee in Tamil, and is cooked in a clay pot.
It is a thinner version of porridge that may be more often drunk rather than eaten. Historically, gruel has been a staple of the Western diet, especially for peasants. Gruel may also be made from millet, hemp, barley, or, in hard times, from chestnut flour or even the less bitter acorns of some oaks.
In North India, cut or coarsely ground wheat groats are known as dalia, and are commonly prepared with milk into a sweet porridge or with vegetables and spices into salty preparations. [1] In Yemen, boiled groats are eaten as a hot breakfast cereal, known as harish, and topped with clarified butter (samneh), or with honey. [2]