Breakfast Ting is a traditional Botswanan recipe for a classic dish of fermented maize or sorghum meal cooked to a thick porridge before being thinned with milk, sweetened with sugar and served for breakfast. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Botswanan version of: Breakfast Ting.
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Ting is the Botswanan name for fermented maize meal or sorghum and it is cooked by boiling in water. For breakfast, it is sweetened with sugar and lightened with milk so that it has a porridge-like consistency.
Ingredients:
500ml water
410g ting (fermented maize meal or sorghum)
4 tbsp sugar (or more to taste)
150ml milk
Method:
Bring the water to a boil in a pan, slowly add the maize meal in a steady stream, until it forms a cone shape in the centre of the pan. Add a lid, bring to a simmer and cook for about 20 minutes, or until a 'skin' has formed around the maize meal.
Now stir the mixture with a fork until the consistency is fine and crumbly. Replace the lid and simmer over very low heat (this is important) until done (about 25 minutes), stirring occasionally with a fork to break any lumps.
Now stir in the sugar until dissolved then work in the milk. Cook for 5 minutes more, or until heated through then serve as a breakfast porridge
