🇧🇫 Burkinabe Cuisine

Zoom-Koom

Millet Flour Drink

Prep Time 15 min + chilling
Servings 6
Difficulty Easy
Calories 158 kcal

A sweet, refreshing millet flour beverage flavored with ginger, lemon, and vanilla, served ice-cold as Burkina Faso's most beloved thirst quencher.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Dissolve millet flour in 2 cups of cold water, stirring to remove lumps.
  2. 2 Strain through a fine sieve into a pitcher, pressing to extract all liquid.
  3. 3 Add remaining water, sugar, lime juice, grated ginger, and vanilla.
  4. 4 Stir vigorously until sugar is dissolved and all flavors are blended.
  5. 5 Chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
  6. 6 Stir well before serving over ice. The flour settles naturally.

Did You Know?

Zoom-koom is so culturally important that no Mossi wedding or naming ceremony can proceed without it — refusing a glass is considered deeply disrespectful.