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Koko

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Koko is a spicy millet porridge popular as a street food and breakfast meal across Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and eaten as an afternoon snack as well. It is made from millet and other grains along with local spices that give it its distinctive taste and color; where it was introduced by Hausa-speaking people it is also known as Hausa koko, though that name is not used in northern Ghana, where millet porridge is instead called za koko in Dagbanli.

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Snack or Street Food 1
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Source Koko (millet porridge) (Wikipedia)

In Cuisine

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Uses Ingredient

Millet, Ingredients
Source Koko (millet porridge) (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: Koko (porridge)
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It is a popular Nigerian Ghanaian Togolese street food and commonly consumed as a breakfast meal.
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Koko (millet porridge) (Wikipedia)
  • In Cuisine: Nigerian Cuisine, lead paragraph
    It is a popular Nigerian Ghanaian Togolese street food and commonly consumed as a breakfast meal.
  • In Cuisine: Ghanaian Cuisine, lead paragraph
    It is a popular Nigerian Ghanaian Togolese street food and commonly consumed as a breakfast meal.
  • Expresses Tradition: Street Food Culture, lead paragraph
    It is a popular Nigerian Ghanaian Togolese street food and commonly consumed as a breakfast meal.
  • Uses Ingredient: Millet, lead paragraph
    Koko (also ogi in Yoruba) is a spicy millet porridge.
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