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Taguella

Name: Taguella
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Niger
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 100g Whole Wheat Flour; 1 tsp Salt; 250ml Water; 2 Tomato; 1 Onion; 200g Ground Beef; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Side Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Disc-shaped bread baked in hot desert sand — the bread of the Tuareg.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Taguella is the bread of the Saharan Tuareg: a dough of wheat or coarse meal is flattened into a disc and buried in sand heated by a campfire to bake. Once done, the sand is brushed off and the bread is torn and soaked in tomato or meat sauce. It carries on the nomadic life around the Aïr Mountains and Agadez.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In the desert of northern Niger, a round bread is dug out of the hot sand beside a campfire, brushed off, and shared among the family.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bread flour 300g
Whole Wheat Flour 100g
Salt 1 tsp
Water 250ml
Tomato 2
Onion 1
Ground Beef 200g
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flours and salt with water into a smooth dough and rest 20 minutes.
Roll into a disc 25cm across and 2cm thick.
Cook in a covered heavy frying pan on low for 12 minutes per side (or 25 minutes in a 200°C oven).
Heat oil in a pot, sauté the ground meat, chopped onion, and tomato, and simmer 10 minutes into a sauce.
Tear the bread into small pieces in a bowl and pour the sauce over.

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