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<\/a><\/p>\nThe flours are mixed together with water and a bit of salt, and that batter rests for a bit as you get to work on the stew.\u00a0 Which, to be fair, is pretty straightforward.\u00a0 Brown some stewing lamb.<\/p>\n
Chop up some vegetables and toss them in with salt, pepper and a bay leaf.<\/p>\n Then stew for an hour.<\/p>\n The pancakes were interesting – the dough was substantially stiffer than normal pancake batter, but given that the ratios for flour to water I found online were all over the map, I’m not sure if it was supposed to be or not.\u00a0 None of them seemed to either burn, or be too undercooked, at any rate.\u00a0 I think they may have been a little under, but it’s hard to say – there’s also a variety of colors of the millet itself out there to choose from.<\/p>\n And once the pancakes are ready, you just put the stew on the pancakes and eat it.<\/p>\n And it was fine.\u00a0 There’s nothing wrong with a basic lamb stew, and the flatbread was good to soak up the juices.\u00a0 But it was also… pretty basic.\u00a0 The research for African countries is frequently difficult, as we’ve discussed earlier, and I’m sure there’s more interesting things that could be done with this if we had a better sense of what the normal range was.<\/p>\n But as it was, we had a nice Thursday night dinner and leftovers for several days.<\/p>\n Next up, we’re off to a country whose name could easily be mistaken for Mauritania, but isn’t.<\/p>\n Recipe: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mauritania is a west African country bordered to the south by Senegal and to the north by… (checks notes) You know what, never mind. It is presently in a period of democrac-ish, which is good, but still has an uncomfortable … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nLeksour (Mauritanian-style Pancakes with Sauce)<\/a><\/p>\n