Farming Staple · Fonio & Peanut
Djouka de Fonio
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Fonio grains are among the smallest cereals eaten anywhere, roughly a millimeter across, yet the crop has been cultivated in West Africa for thousands of years.
Steamed fonio, an ancient, tiny-grained cereal, is layered with roasted peanut powder and a lightly fried mix of okra, eggplant, onion, and chili. The result is a full, protein-rich meal built almost entirely from grains and vegetables grown around Sikasso's farmland.
Why it's made this way: Sikasso's Sénoufo and Bambara farming communities have long grown fonio alongside sorghum, millet, and peanuts, even as the crop has been squeezed out in places by government-backed cotton farming, and djouka remains one of the clearest ways that older grain is still eaten today.
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