3 teacups of whole or half ground wheat
3 chicken breast
3 pairs of chicken gizzards
2 onions 1 big (grated/cut into tiny pieces) and one small
(sliced and shredded)
3 tablespoons turmeric paste/puree
5 tablespoons sugar
5 cups water
6 heaped teaspoons of ghee
2 teaspoons salt
Soak wheat and leave wheat in water for 3
hours. Boil wheat, chicken breast and big (grated) onion in 3
cups of water. Add 1 tea spoon of salt and keep cooking on low
fire. On another side of the cooker make sweet turmeric sauce.
Cut chicken gizzards into small pieces and boil with 3 spoons of
turmeric paste/puree in ½ cup of water, add a pinch of salt and
3 table spoons of sugar. Leave the sauce to cool. Once wheat is
thoroughly cooked, take out the chicken breast, they should also
be well cooked by now to the point that they almost start to
shred when you just touch them. Cut chicken breast into small
pieces and shred well. Put the chicken back into the bowl of
wheat and start to stir. By now the wheat you are cooking should
have started turning into a thick paste. Add 2 to 3 spoons of
ghee and keep stirring until the shredded chicken is evenly
distributed. The heaviness or thickness of wheat paste should
almost feel like dough when kneaded and ready for baking. If the
paste is too hard add a little water. Once ready, take off from
fire and cover the wheat paste. On one side of cooker, take a
small frying pen and fry the small (shredded) onion in 3 to 4
spoons of ghee. Keep stirring until onions turn red and crispy.
Serving: The turmeric sauce with pieces of chicken gizzards is
served in one small bowl. Deep fried onions with all the ghee are
also poured into another bowl and put on the table (allow a few
minutes to cool but not solidify) Boko boko is served while still
warm (not hot, you could end up badly burnt). One may choose to
either eat it with the fried onions (where by one also adds the
ghee that is with the onions) or one may choose to eat boko boko
with the turmeric sauce.
Serves 4.
country : Burundi
course : poultry dish
source : Patricia Plummer [IRE_tag]