🇲🇷 Mauritania cuisine · #1

Thieboudienne

Name: Thieboudienne
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Mauritania
Ingredients: 1.5 kg fish (thiof or grouper) thick steaks; 4 cups broken rice; 2 onions; 3 tbsp tomato paste; bunch of parsley; 4 garlic cloves; 1 chili; 2 carrots; 1 small cabbage; 1 aubergine; 2 cassava or sweet potatoes; ½ cup oil; salt

Time120 min

Serves8

Ingredients13

Rice with herb-stuffed fish and vegetables in tomato sauce — the signature dish of the Mauritanian and Senegalese coast.

Ingredients

1.5 kg fish (thiof or grouper) thick steaks
4 cups broken rice
2 onions
3 tbsp tomato paste
bunch of parsley
4 garlic cloves
1 chili
2 carrots
1 small cabbage
1 aubergine
2 cassava or sweet potatoes
½ cup oil
salt

Method

Pound parsley, garlic, chili and salt and stuff into slits in the fish.
Brown the fish in oil and lift out.
In the same oil fry onion and paste, then add water, vegetables and the fish and cook until the vegetables are tender.
Lift out fish and vegetables, add washed rice to the broth and cook gently until absorbed.
Serve the rice topped with fish and vegetables.

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