Western Staple · Millet Bread
Karo
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Karo is usually made from finger millet, sometimes mixed with a little cassava flour, which is what gives the dough its dark, brownish colour.
Karo is millet flour boiled and mingled into a firm dough, much like kwon kal in the north, and served as western Uganda's typical companion to eshabwe, matooke, potatoes or beans.
Why it's made this way: Millet has long been a resilient staple crop in Ankole's drier grasslands, and karo remains the default carbohydrate on tables from rural homesteads to Mbarara restaurants.
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