🍲 Nigerian Pito

Drinks · 2 ingredients · 9 steps

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Pito is a local drink common in Nigeria. In Lagos specifically, pito is majorly hawked in the street in an earthen pot or drum to keep it chilled.

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This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

  • Dried guinea corn (sorghum)
  • Sugar (optional)

Method

  1. Grind guinea corn into a powder.
  2. Transfer ground guinea corn into a wide bowl, add enough water to fully cover. Stir well with a spatula.
  3. Let the mixture rest until it settles into two phases. Drain the water away.
  4. Pour the guinea corn slurry into a pot and bring to a boil.
  5. After boiling, cool the mash and leave it to ferment for 1 day.
  6. Boil mixture again for a few minutes over medium heat.
  7. Set a sieve over a bowl, and pour the guinea corn mixture into it. Discard the solids.
  8. Stir in sugar if desired, and allow pito to cool.
  9. Serve cold over ice.
Where this came from. Adapted from Nigerian Pito in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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