Kunun Zaki

What we know so far

Kunun zaki ("sweet kunu") is the everyday drink of northern Nigeria, sold cold in bottles and nylon bags at every motor park and served by the bucket at weddings and naming ceremonies. Soaked millet is blended with ginger, cloves and black pepper, part of the slurry is cooked to a pap with boiling water, the raw part is stirred back in and the whole thing is left to ferment lightly overnight before sieving. Sweet potato or malted grain in the blend is the trick that keeps it thin and drinkable instead of setting like pap. It is mildly sour, spicy, cloudy and filling, and takes two days of patience rather than any skill.

The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 8 ingredients and 7 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

1. Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
2. Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
3. Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

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