how to prepare original motoho

Traditional  dishes
Steps on how to prepare “motoho”
“Motoho” is a sour soft porridge prepared by using crushed sorghum. Here in Lesotho there are two different types of sorghum which are red or something like brownish as well as white sorghum.
Ingredients for making “motoho”
4 cups crushed sorghum
500 ml “tomoso”
5L water
How to prepare!
Original “motoho” without any preservative, colorants or any taste.
Pour 4 cups of crushed sorghum the preferred colour, into a mixing bowl or bucket.
2.5l cold water, stir the mixture until it is soft.
Dilute with boiling water until it is warm.
Pour the 500ml “tomoso”.
Stir until it is well mixed.
Cover for 24 hours to ferment in order to turn sour because it is preferred sour.
After fermentation has occurred, boil a small amount of water mixed with the top water of the mixture which is called “ hloea”.
Pour the remaining mixture in the boiling one.
Stir until it thickens and then allow it to be well cooked.
After 30-40 minutes of boiling then allow to cool it is preferably eaten cold with sugar to
This is the original recipe of “motoho”  without the use of  sodium benzoate so it cannot be kept for a longer period.


Steps for preparing “motoho”