Tapioca zogbon

Name: Tapioca zogbon
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Togo
Ingredients: 160 g plain dry small food-grade tapioca pearls, not instant; 1 litre drinking water; 160 ml pasteurised or sterilised unsweetened evaporated milk; 20 g sugar; 5 g washed fresh culinary lemongrass leaves

🥣 Small tapioca pearl porridge with lemongrass and unsweetened evaporated milk.

Ingredients

160 g plain dry small food-grade tapioca pearls, not instant
1 litre drinking water
160 ml pasteurised or sterilised unsweetened evaporated milk
20 g sugar
5 g washed fresh culinary lemongrass leaves

Preparation

Check small pearl type and package cooking time. Measure ingredients and prepare heavy pan, spoon and clean tongs.

Boil water with washed culinary lemongrass leaves. Simmer 5 minutes then remove leaves completely.

Sprinkle pearls into simmering water stirring. Cook gently about 15 minutes stirring regularly, or longer as package requires, until translucent and tender at centre. Add a little hot water only if too thick.

Add unsweetened evaporated milk and sugar and cook 3 minutes gently stirring. Porridge should flow slowly from spoon.

Cool 5 minutes and divide into 4 bowls. Reference: 10 minutes preparation, 30 heating infusion and cooking, 5 resting, total 45 minutes. Large drink pearls require another method and are not used.