Tiger Nut Pudding

Atadwe Milkye/Ataanme Nmliche/Atagbe Meky

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Fran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baëta

Published 2015

  • About

Ghanaians favor tiger nut tubers raw as a snack food. That is one way to eat them—simply spitting out the fiber after chewing them and sucking out the wonderful sweet milky juice. There is also a wonderfully rich pudding in Ghana made from tiger nuts ground together with rice and sugar, then strained repeatedly, cooked, and chilled. Delightful for anyone, but especially a great choice for the lactose intolerant! When I asked