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🍽️ Massa / waina (galettes fermentées de riz ou de mil) et ses variantes

Quantities for 4 people, from the Marché Facile assistant’s recipe sheet. Ingredients link to product pages in the catalogue — the day’s price is on the product page, never frozen here.

Ingredients

IngredientQuantity (4 people)In the catalogue
Base fermentée — riz à moudre (variante : farine de mil) 400 g (rice soaked overnight and ground, including about 100 g cooked and blended into a paste; or 400 g of millet flour) RIZ Maman
Note: BASE: rice, soaked overnight, finely ground, loosened with its blended cooked portion. VARIANT that replaces the rice, never in addition: millet flour (Beninese version, often with the sweet banana below), or half rice and half millet. Ready-made rice flour is not yet in the catalogue — flagged during prospection; the rice is ground after soaking.
Levure boulangère 1 tsp (about 7 g) Levure Boulangere Chabrior
it revives the fermentation of the dough already rested overnight; let it rise another 30 minutes to 1 hour before cooking
Sucre 80 g Sucre Blanc Poudre Princesse Tatie
Banane douce bien mûre (variante mil du Bénin) (optional) 1 Banane Douce
Note: Beninese variant with millet flour only: mashed banana flavours the dough and replaces part of the sugar.
Potasse alimentaire (touche haoussa, facultative) (optional) 1 pinch Potasse
Note: Among a minority of Hausa cooks (it lightens the dough); most recipes do without it.
Sel ½ tsp GROS SEL FIN IODE
Huile (cuisson à la poêle) 5 cl Huile DE Tournesol AYA
just enough to oil the pan between each galette
Eau about 40 cl Already at home (assumed to be at home)

Preparation

Thick, soft pancakes cooked in an oiled pan (traditionally in an dimpled pan), from a batter fermented overnight. Hausa and northern Nigerian base (waina): soaked then ground rice, loosened with a portion of the same cooked rice blended into a porridge, yeast, a little sugar and salt. Benin variant: the batter is made with millet flour (or half rice, half millet) and a very ripe sweet banana, mashed, replaces part of the sugar. Rice flour is not in the catalogue: grind soaked rice yourself, or use ready-made millet flour. A pinch of potash for some Hausa cooks, and a little blended onion for others: touches, not the base. Serve lukewarm, plain, with sugar, honey or a sauce.

Recipe in English. See all 57 recipes · See the catalogue

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