Taguella

Taguella is a flat bread, the staple dish of Tuareg people living in the Sahara. It is a disk-shaped bread made from wheat flour and cooked buried underneath the hot sand and charcoal of a small fire. The bread is then broken up into small pieces and eaten with a meat sauce.

Description

Served in a large flat, as a single dish or served with sheep meat, accompanied by Goat#Milk, butter, and cheese, goat, camel milk, camel or sheep milk, and tea. The taguella is the emblematic dish of Tuaregs and also their food base.

The taguella is a thick, unleavened galette. It is made of semolina, wheat or millet, sometimes mixed with flour. After being kneaded (for twenty minutes) and then baked in the embers of a fire in ash and sand; with the right hand, Tuaregs eat it with a sauce of tomatoes and Vegetable, vegetables, or various meats, or chili or soup and sometimes flavored with wild fennel.

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See also

*Ash cake
*Berber cuisine
*Algerian cuisine

References

*{{cite book, title=Bonjour le Sahara du Niger, author=Edmond Bernus, date=1994

Tunisian cuisine
Algerian cuisine
Libyan cuisine
Malian cuisine
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