
Mauritania
Al-keçra
Flat galette of wheat or barley flour cooked in an oven or buried in hot sand (hofra); the everyday bread of Moor nomads, eaten torn and soaked in meat sauce or stew; the sand-baking method gives a distinctive earthy flavour.
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Mauritania
Flat galette of wheat or barley flour cooked in an oven or buried in hot sand (hofra); the everyday bread of Moor nomads, eaten torn and soaked in meat sauce or stew; the sand-baking method gives a distinctive earthy flavour.

Western Sahara
Dense, round bread staple of the Sahrawi diet; traditionally baked in the embers of a fire; versatile bread served at every meal, used as a utensil to scoop up meats, stews, and sauces; the everyday bread of Western Sahara.

Western Sahara
Unleavened bread prepared without salt, sugar, or yeast; only barley mixed with water, buried in a clean hole with fire above; soaked in meat sauce after baking; a nomadic bread that uses the desert itself as the oven.

Morocco
مسمن
Square layered Moroccan flatbread made by stretching, folding, and pan-frying oiled dough.