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Mauritania

Thieboudienne, mechoui lamb and Saharan dates.

Iconic recipes

Saharan one-pot fish-and-rice with caramelized vegetables.

Slow-roasted whole lamb shoulder rubbed with cumin, garlic and butter.

Senegambian-style fish and broken-rice one-pot, beloved across Mauritania's coast.

Whole leg of lamb rubbed with cumin and butter, slow-roasted until pull-apart tender.

Lightly sweetened camel-milk yogurt drink, served chilled across the desert.

Mauritania's coastal jollof-style fish-and-rice with vegetables in tomato.