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Firm millet or maize paste eaten with okra sauce.

Ingredients

• 3 cups Millet flour
• 6 cups Water
• 300 g Okra
• 1 Onion
• 2 Tomatoes
• 100 g Dried fish
• 2 tbsp Peanut butter
• 2 tsp Salt
• 3 tbsp Oil

Method

1. Make a slurry — Mix a cup of the millet flour with cold water until smooth.
2. Cook the base — Pour into boiling salted water and cook 10 minutes.
3. Thicken — Add the rest of the flour gradually while turning hard with a wooden spoon.
4. Work it — Keep folding 10 minutes until stiff and smooth, then shape into a dome.
5. Make the sauce — Cook the sliced okra with onion, tomato, dried fish and peanut butter until thick and slippery.
6. Tô is ready — Serve the dome with the okra sauce for dipping.

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