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Kenkey (Dokono)

Prep Time 29 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: African, Ghanaian

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups Mmori (Fermented cornmeal mixture)
  • 2 cups Water
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • Dried corn husk
  • water for steaming

Method
 

  1. Take 3 cups of the mmori and mix with 2 cups of water
    mori mixture
  2. Cook the mixture over the stovetop until it becomes a thick doughy consistency. It should look almost translucent. Remove from heat.
    mori mix 2
  3. Add the remaining 1 cup of raw mmori and mix it with the cooked mmori.
  4. In a separate bowl submerge and soak corn husk in water for 5 minutes
  5. Take about 1 cup of the mmori mixture and form into kenkey balls. Wrap in corn husk and tuck the remaining husk into the center of the ball mixture. *If you don't have corn husk you may use cling film and aluminum foil.
  6. Stack the kenkey into a medium-sized pot or dutch oven and fill with water till it reaches midway into the pot. Cover and steam over a medium fire for approximately 1 hour.
    kenkey in a pot
  7. Allow the kenkey cool and serve