Sudanese braided cheese in brine
Sudanese braided cheese: curd ladled, salted, cut into strips and braided, then salted in brine and packed into tins filled with brine. A staple kept in brine rather than dried.
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Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.
Sudan
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Terkin
Terkin, also called meluha, is a Sudanese fermented fish paste or sauce. Sources describe raw and cooked forms and different processing methods; none establishes validated safety controls.
Gurasa (Northern Sudanese fermented wheat griddle bread)
A northern Sudanese wholemeal wheat batter bread, rested with instant yeast and poured in thick rounds onto a lightly oiled pan or saaj.
Sigda (Sudanese fermented sesame press cake)
A Sudanese preparation made by fermenting sesame oilseed cake, shaping it into balls and sun-drying. Published accounts describe different processes and do not give a complete household batch.
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Mindeshi
Mindeshi (also Mendeshi) is a Sudanese fermented paste made from small fish, pounded and sometimes dried. Sources disagree about how it relates to Terkin and do not establish one validated process or safety control.
Daqua peanut dressing
A smooth dressing of peanut butter, oil and lime, tossed into a Sudanese-style tomato salad and served at once.
Aceda
Aceda is Sudan’s firm cereal porridge, commonly made from sorghum and shaped into a smooth mound. Some versions use fermented dough; fermentation is not universal.
Merissa
Sudanese opaque sorghum beer made from soured, toasted, cooked and malted grain through three linked fermentations, drunk fresh while still fermenting.