Sudanese sorghum asida with lamb sauce

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Cut lamb into 3 cm cubes. Chop onion and garlic; slice okra into 1 cm rounds.

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12 min

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Ingredients

  • 560 gSorghum flour, whole-grain
  • 600 gLamb, shoulder, whole (arm and blade), separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/4" fat, choice, raw
  • 400 gOkra, raw
  • 800 gTomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average
  • 250 gOnions, raw
  • 25 gGarlic, raw
  • 6 gSpices, cumin seed
  • 30 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 1,800 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 6 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Cut lamb into 3 cm cubes. Chop onion and garlic; slice okra into 1 cm rounds.
  2. Fry onion, garlic and cumin in oil at 165 °C for 6 minutes. Add lamb, tomatoes, okra, 800 g water and salt.
  3. Braise covered at 90 °C for 80 minutes until the lamb is tender and sauce thickens.
  4. Bring the remaining 1000 g water with salt to the boil. Whisk in sorghum flour gradually and cook at 95 °C for 15 minutes into a glossy thick porridge.
  5. Divide porridge among six bowls and spoon all lamb and okra sauce into the centres.