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Zoom-Koom

Burkina Faso

What we know so far

Zoom-koom means "flour water" in Mooré, and it is Burkina Faso's welcome drink, the glass offered to a guest before anything else: raw millet flour whisked into water with ginger, tamarind, sugar, sometimes pineapple, a pinch of chilli, and served cold over ice. It is thick, sweet, sour and spicy at once, and filling enough to count as food; Ouagadougou's tourism fair has asked for it to be listed as intangible heritage. Northern Ghana makes the same drink as zomkom, with cloves and fermented whey.

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 8 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

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Waiting for a cook

Zoom-Koom

Burkina Faso

What we know so far

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 8 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

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

See every dish waiting