White House State Menu and Sorghum???

[cally]

Here’s the menu for the White House State Dinner. Includes two dishes with sorghum?? Has anyone tried to cook with sorghum?


First course

Farro and roasted beet salad

Popped sorghum, herb vinaigrette

Butternut squash soup

Smoked paprika, candied pumpkin seeds

Main course

Sarsaparilla-braised short ribs

Sorghum-glazed young carrots

Brussels sprouts, celery root purée, carrot jus

Dessert

Hazelnut and chocolate mousse cake

Crème fraîche ice cream

As a bonus, here’s an article on sorghum from Healthline

[Ocelot II]

1. It's a common grain used in African cuisines. And it's good for you!

https://www.liveeatlearn.com/sorghum/

[Warpy]

2. It's also eaten widely in China, especially rural China

because it's prolific and super easy to grow.

Sorghum syrup is a good sweetener, sort of like molasses lite.

It's just another food crop that's fed to livestock in the US.

[zeusdogmom]

3. We had sorghum syrup a lot as kids

Incredible on fresh, warm baking powder biscuits.

[Akakoji]

4. Millets (including sorghum) are how humanity survived for thousands of years

They are most likely what the first beer and bread and sugar were made from. Sorghum syrup is legend in most Southern states. I grew up eaten popped sorghum instead of popped corn. And bread made from it. The amazing thing abput millets is that they can grow place wheat wheat and corn often can not. They an withstand drought. And they are a super rotation crop that allows continuous planting. Sorghum most likely got to the US from African slaves. Women slaves were the opnes that were forced to dehusk and clean the grain, something that had to e done in order to make it into flour. And, it's gluten free. It's a Poaceae (grass) and a panicoideae.

[cally]

5. Popped Sorghum and herb vinaigrette?

Looks like the menu means they put a vinaigrette on top of popped sorghum. Would that work? Wouldn’t it be soggy?

By the way, in Ecuador they use popcorn as a base for some dishes. Sort of like we would put food on top of rice or another grain.

[Kali]

6. I think they are on the faro and beet salad

because the list says paprika and seeds that would be on the soup as well

[Phentex]

7. Only when gifted to me...

Damaris Phillips from Food Network Star introduced sorghum to a lot of people. I haven't gone out of my way to use it.