Recipe: Dengu

Make this great Kenyan side dish with the following recipe:

• cupful mung beans
• cupfuls milk
• medium sized onions
• spoonfuls ghee or butter
• 1/2 cupful cooking oil
• salt and curry powder to taste
  

Clean and wash mung beans. Place in pot, cover with water and boil until very tender. If more water needed, add only boiling water. Remove from heat and beat until smooth. It will turn into a paste. Put mung bean paste into a bowl and heat cooking oil in same pot. Clean and dice onions. Add onion to oil and fry until cooked and nicely brown. Return the mung bean paste to the pot and mix with onion. Add curry powder, salt and milk and simmer for 10 minutes. Add butter or ghee and simmer for another 5 minutes.