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Karkanji
Hibiscus infusion with ginger and sugar: a welcome drink, not a dish.
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Ingredients
- Dried hibiscus flowers (bissap)
- Ginger, sugar, sometimes mint
Method
- Steep the flowers in hot water.
- Strain, sweeten, chill.
- Origin
- A drink of welcome, Sahel and towns. It is not a dish: it is a hibiscus infusion.
- Occasion
- Visits, Eid, hot afternoons.
In depth
Machine translation from French, under review. The French text is authoritative.
Karkandji (karkanji) juice is a sweetened infusion of dried hibiscus flowers. The same word also refers to a sorrel sauce with meat or fish, peanut or sesame.
- Drink
- Infusion of sweet hibiscus
- Other meaning
- Lose sauce
Sources
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