🇲🇷 Mauritania cuisine · #9

Lakh

Lakh
Time30 min
Serves6
Ingredients5

Steamed millet grains served with sweetened curdled milk — a refreshing dessert.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Steam the millet 20 minutes and cool.
  2. Whisk the curdled milk with sugar and vanilla.
  3. Mix together.
  4. Serve cold with a pinch of nutmeg.
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