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Kama (roasted grain flour with kefir)
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dessert vegetarian

Kama (roasted grain flour with kefir)

kama

A blend of roasted barley, rye, oat and pea flours stirred into kefir with honey and berries.

Eaten in: Estonia

Prep
10 min
Cooking
15 min
Total
25 min
Servings
4

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About the dish

Kama is a flour of roasted and ground barley, rye and oats with peas – an Estonian product with a nutty, slightly smoky aroma. It was once a handy, filling food to take out to the fields, since all it needed was a splash of soured milk. Today it is usually stirred into kefir or buttermilk, sweetened with honey or sugar and topped with forest berries for breakfast or dessert. It also goes into cakes, creams and ice cream, and every Estonian shop sells it. Finland has a similar blend called talkkuna.

Main ingredients

  • barley flour
  • rye flour
  • oat flour
  • pea flour
  • kefir
  • honey
  • berries

More: Wikipedia (en)

Recipe

Kama (roasted grain flour with kefir)

https://foodmap.ominuvo.com/dish/kama

Ingredients

4 servings

4 servings

Method

  1. Mix all the flours and toast them in a dry frying pan over low heat for about 10–15 minutes, stirring constantly, until slightly darker and smelling nutty.

  2. Let the toasted flour cool; this is your kama.

  3. In a bowl, mix the kefir with the honey, then gradually stir in the kama until it thickens like yogurt.

  4. Leave for a few minutes for the flour to swell, and thin with more kefir if needed.

  5. Serve in bowls topped with berries.

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