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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Rinse the wheat until clean in a large bowl. | 2. Soak it in water for a few hours or overnight. | 3. Drain it well before cooking. | 4. If you choose not to soak the grain, it will take longer to cook. | 5. In a heavy pot start cooking meat. | 6. Add three cups of water for every cup of wheat. | 7. DO NOT ADD WHEAT. | 8. Add spices. | 9. Cover and bring to a boil. | 10. Cook for ten minutes. | 11. Remove meat (but not broth) from cooking pot and set aside. | 12. Skim any froth from the broth and throw it away. | 13. Stir wheat into the pot, cover, and reduce heat to simmer. | 14. As wheat is cooking, Remove meat from bones. | 15. Shred or pound meat into very small pieces. | 16. Return meat to pot. | 17. Stir until meat and wheat are well mixed. | 18. Cover the pot with a sheet of aluminum foil and put the lid over the foil. OR you can put the pot in a warm oven to allow the boko-boko to cook slowly. Make sure it is oven safe first. | 19. Cover tightly and continue to cook for two (or four, or six) hours over very low heat. | 20. Check occasionally and add water if necessary. | 21. When wheat is tender and fully cooked: Add ghee or butter, and stir it forcefully to turn it into a smooth porridge. | 22. Flavoring option: | 23. Add milk, and sugar or honey, along with the ghee or butter. (you should skip the cumin and turmeric if you plan to do so). | 24. Sprinkle lemon juice over the Boko Boko. | 25. Serve Boko Boko topped with fried onions. | 26. Make a gravy by boiling the meat bones with a chopped onion and the same spices used to cook the Boko Boko. | 27. Strain and serve the hot gravy along with the Boko Boko. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
lamb	1		bone-in	1211.112	0.0	76.5677	97.9322
cinnamon	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cumin powder	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
salt				-	-	-	-
black pepper				-	-	-	-
bulgur wheat	3 -4	cups	experimented cracked experimented	-	-	-	-
butter				-	-	-	-
milk				-	-	-	-
sugar				-	-	-	-
honey				-	-	-	-
lemon juice				-	-	-	-
onion				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.