OT: Libyan food
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OT: Libyan food
Recent events in Libya inspired me to read about Libyan food, which looks quite delicious. I found this site which has quite a comprehensive set of photos and descriptions:
http://www.temehu.com/Libyan-food.htm
But I'm interested in hearing some more details about one particular dish: bazin (or "bazeen" or "bazine", depending on transliteration).
It looks like a ball of dough or dumpling in the middle of a plate, surrounded by a sauce/stew of meat/fish/vegetables/tomatoes or even, instead, a yoghurt sauce.
I'd like to know what the consistency of the bazin is like. Is it like a doughy bread? Does boiling the flour and water mixture make it chewy like a bagel? Or is it more like a dumpling, and fluffy but solid in texture? Is the top of the dome more solid/hard than the inside?
Perhaps Stez has some experience here, or any of you who did those ex-TIP trips...
http://www.temehu.com/Libyan-food.htm
But I'm interested in hearing some more details about one particular dish: bazin (or "bazeen" or "bazine", depending on transliteration).
It looks like a ball of dough or dumpling in the middle of a plate, surrounded by a sauce/stew of meat/fish/vegetables/tomatoes or even, instead, a yoghurt sauce.
I'd like to know what the consistency of the bazin is like. Is it like a doughy bread? Does boiling the flour and water mixture make it chewy like a bagel? Or is it more like a dumpling, and fluffy but solid in texture? Is the top of the dome more solid/hard than the inside?
Perhaps Stez has some experience here, or any of you who did those ex-TIP trips...
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Dumplings in stew is quite a common dish in several countries....my mother used to give it to us back in the last century.
Seasoned flour and water is all a dumpling is although you can add suet if you want. They don't go soggy at all...in fact they are quite light in texture.
Seasoned flour and water is all a dumpling is although you can add suet if you want. They don't go soggy at all...in fact they are quite light in texture.
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Unfortunately these days it seems that the tyrant Gadafi would like his opponents to eat lead more than anything else.
Although North African cuisine can be wonderful I hope that the people of Libya taste freedom, which is more sweet than any other dish, as soon as possible.
Although North African cuisine can be wonderful I hope that the people of Libya taste freedom, which is more sweet than any other dish, as soon as possible.
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I wish humble pie was on Moammar al-Qadhafi's menu but I am afraid that he only eats hallucinatory stuff.
As a PS: I am kinda glad I did not start this thread...
As a PS: I am kinda glad I did not start this thread...
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Recent events in Libya inspired me to read about Libyan food, which looks quite delicious. I found this site which has quite a comprehensive set of photos and descriptions:
http://www.temehu.com/Libyan-food.htm
http://www.temehu.com/Libyan-food.htm
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