and how to prepare it :-)
first of all, prepare the *sauce*...made from chopped onions, green pepper, carrots, tomatoes and parsley....add a hint of salt and cumin, water, a hand full of little *lentils* and sundried, salted meat...
cook it *hot*hot*hot* on the fire :-)
next step: made a doug for the bread from wheat semolina & flour, water and salt...knead well... :-)
prepare a hollow in the center of the fireplace...
put the prepared *bread* on the *hot* sand...
cover it carefully with sand and *glowing* charcoal and bake the *tagella* inbetween the hot sand....
after a while turn it once and bake it again for a while...wait...may you want to enjoy inbetween a glass of *chai*?
when the baking time is finished...I do not know how long it takes exactly, probably 30 minutes...remove the sand with a knife...
rinse it carefully...
start breaking it in pieces...
little pieces, please! :-)
add tons of *fresh* garlic and warm up the sauce on the fireplace....yes, you are reading right...I probably ate never in my life before that much garlic as in the desert :-)
add the *sauce* to the prepared bread, stir well....
serve it with *olive* oil and *hot & spicy* harissa.....*tagella* is definitely one of the most delicious dishes I ever had!
what a *joy*! :-)
That sounds seriously delicious, Petra - I might try to recreate that dish at home, though I know it could never taste as good as bread baked in the sand of the Sahara, and food cooked over a fire! How many cloves of garlic do you think they used? I love all those ingredients - I am hungry now!
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