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Madila

thick soured milk, drunk alone or with bogobe

Botswana Cheese & dairy Vegetarian

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Milk soured thick in a calabash or hide bag, drained and eaten with porridge; the standard way to keep milk before refrigeration.

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What is Madila?

Madila is a cheese & dairy from Botswana: thick soured milk, drunk alone or with bogobe. Milk soured thick in a calabash or hide bag, drained and eaten with porridge; the standard way to keep milk before refrigeration.

Made with

milkyoghurt

Cooked

fermented

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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