8. The desert food

Millet is the favorite food of desert people because it is refreshing. It also costs half of what rice costs, but it is a lot of work to prepare it.

Millet must be washed very well because when you buy it, it is full of earth and sand.

When it is well cleaned it must be dried in the sun and then it is reduced to flour.

The millet flour must then be filtered.

Only then can different local specialties such as the “cream”, which is my favorite, be prepared.
To prepare this very light but satiating food, you need to add different spices, cumin, fennel, pepper, chili pepper, and also dried milk and powder from the fruit of the Baobab tree to the millet flour. Everything is reduced to powder and added to the millet flour.

This raw cream flour accompanies the Bedouins of the desert and when needed they only have to add water to a cup with a little sugar and lunch is ready. The cream both satisfies hunger and quenches thirst at the same time.

The color, texture, taste and nutritional effect of the cream make it very similar to milk.

Millet pasta is a kind of polenta, a dish for the poor that is very good.