Ashir Recipe

Ashir This dish is typical to the Borana’s. A delicious meal of huskless maize mixed with milk. The husks are removed prior to cooking by pounding with a mortar and pestle. The mixture is boiled with added sugar and salted for a tantalizing taste. Ingredients 8 ½ cups (1536 g) pounded maize, white, de-germed 13/4 cups (414 g) cow milk 6 ½ tbsp. (88 g) sugar 1 ½ tsp. (12 g) salt, iodized 29 2/3 cups (6430 g) water Preparation 10 minutes ‖ Cooking 2 hours 15 minutes ‖ Serves 4 • Sort and wash the pounded maize. • Put all the water in the cooking pot and add the pounded maize. • Put it on heat and boil. • Boil for 2 hours, remove from heat and strain ex- cess water. • After draining water put back on the heat, add salt, sugar, milk and stir. • Simmer for 10 minutes and serve. Nutrition data per 100g of recipe: Energy 529 kJ/ 125 kcal |│ Fat 0.9 g │| Carbohydrates 25.8 g │| Protein 2.7 g |│ Fibre 1.2 g │ Vitamin A 5 mcg |│ Iron 0.2 mg │| Zinc 0.21 mg Kenyan Food Recipes download pdf