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🇲🇷Mauritania

Marolaym

One-pot dish of lamb or goat meat with rice in an onion base; a variant of chubbagin with a lighter sauce and no tomato; flavored with onions, oil, and mild spices; a simple, everyday rice-and-meat dish across Mauritania.

🇪🇭Western Sahara

Maru we-llham

Marou wa lham

Maru we-llham is rice cooked slowly in a lightly salted meat sauce, with the meat arranged at the centre; Sahrawi and Mauritanian versions commonly use camel or other meat.

🇲🇷Mauritania

Mauritanian Fish and Rice

Chubbagin Lélé et Raabie

Fish and rice cooked with vegetables in a tomato and chili sauce; the Mauritanian version of Senegalese ceebu jën, adapted with local fish from the Atlantic coast and Mauritanian spice preferences.

🇸🇳Senegal

Mbakhal

Mbaxal

Rice cooked with groundnut paste, dried fish and vegetables into a thick, savoury one-pot.

🇲🇷Nouakchott, Mauritania

Thieboudienne

Ceebu jën

Broken rice cooked in a tomato and fish stock with a whole fish stuffed with parsley, garlic and chilli, plus cassava, carrot, cabbage and aubergine.