South Sudanese cuisine facts for kids

Mandazi

Preparation of kisra

Molokhia

White Bull Lager

South Sudanese cuisine is based on grains (maize, sorghum). It uses yams, potatoes, vegetables, legumes (beans, lentil, peanuts), meat (goat, mutton, chicken and fish near the rivers and lakes), okra and fruit as well. Meat is boiled, grilled or dried.

South Sudanese cuisine was influenced by Arab cuisine.

Examples of South Sudanese dishes

• Kisra, sorghum pancake, national dish
• Mandazi, fried pastry
• Wala-wala, millet porridge
• Aseeda, sorghum porridge
• Gurassa, yeasted pancake
• Kajaik, fish stew
• Ful sudani, peanut sweet
• Tamia, falafel
• Ful medames
• Combo, dish from spinach, peanut butter and tomatoes
• Goat meat soup
• Molokhia

South Sudanese drinks

• Coffee
• Karkade
• Southern Sudan Beverages Limited, the only brewery in South Sudan went bankrupt in 2016. It made 3 types of beer, like White Bull Lager.