DESSERT ON THE AFRICAN MENU, BAOBAB ICE LOLLY

You know being a child growing up experimenting was one of my favourite thing to do. Mixing different colours of juice or making strange sandwiches .But best of all was creating my own kind of dessert using African berries, that I would have gone looking for in the bush next door to my parents house.

TODAY ON THE AFRICAN MENU

Today on the African Menu I will be sharing a recipe on making dessert with baobab fruit seeds.BAOBAB ICE LOLLY

INGREDIENTS
Take one baobab fruit from the tree or buy one from the fruit and vegetable market
Take 4 teaspoons of sugar
400 ml of boiling water

stage 1 remove seeds

PREPARATION METHOD
Take all the seeds out of one baobab fruit and and place them in a bowl.
Boil 400 ml of water and pour it into the bowl with the seeds.
Stir the mixture until the fruit on the seeds is completely dissolved in the hot water.
Add the 4 teaspoons of sugar to the mixture and continue mixing until you get a thick pastry
Pour out the thick baobab juice into your desired plastic container and make sure you remove the seeds, put a wooden or plastic holder in the middle and place it in the deep freezer for a couple of hours until it completely freezes .
When ready to serve place the container in hot water and the ice- lolly will slide out .

stage 3 add hot water and sugar and pour into a container

stage 2 put seeds in the bowel

final stage freeze and serve frozen

THE BAOBAB ICE -LOLLY