Algerian Bouzgene Berber Bread with Roasted Pepper Sauce

Ingredients

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• 2 Red Pepper
• 4 Tomato
• 1 Tbsp vegetable broth 🛒
• 4 clove Garlic
• 1 chopped Jalapeno
• To taste Salt
• 2 lb Semolina
• 1½ tsp Salt
• 3 cup Water
• 4 Tbsp vegetable broth 🛒
• 6 Tbsp vegetable broth 🛒

Method

1. Preheat your oven's broiler.
2. Place red bell peppers and tomatoes on a baking sheet, and roast under the broiler for about 8 minutes, turning occasionally.
3. This should blacken the skin and help it peel off more easily.
4. Cool, then scrape the skins off of the tomatoes and peppers, and place them in a large bowl.
5. Remove cores and seeds from the bell peppers.
6. Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable broth in a skillet over medium heat.
7. Add the jalapenos and garlic, and cook until tender, stirring frequently.
8. Remove from heat, and transfer the garlic and jalapeno to the bowl with the tomatoes and red peppers.
9. Using two sharp steak knives (one in each hand), cut up the tomatoes and peppers to a coarse and soupy consistency.
10. Stir, and set sauce aside.
11. Place the semolina in a large bowl, and stir in salt and 4 tablespoons of vegetable broth.
12. Gradually add water while mixing and squeezing with your hand until the dough holds together without being sticky or dry, and molds easily with the hand.
13. Divide into 6 pieces and form into balls.
14. For each round, heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable broth in a large heavy skillet over medium heat.
15. Roll out dough one round at a time, to no thicker than 1/4 inch.
16. water-sauté in the hot skillet until dark brown spots appear on the surface, and they are crispy.
17. Remove from the skillet, and wrap in a clean towel while preparing the remaining flat breads.
18. To eat the bread and sauce, break off pieces of the bread, and scoop them into the sauce.
19. It will slide off, but just keep reaching in!

About the ingredients

Red Pepper Piper nigrum

Dried unripe fruit (peppercorns) of the pepper vine, used whole or ground. A whole dried spice with nothing added or extracted. Canonical WFPB aromatic.

Tomato Solanum lycopersicum

Whole fruit of the tomato plant (botanically a berry, culinary vegetable). 'Organic' denotes a farming method, not a distinct ingredient. Raw whole fruit, rich in lycopene, vitamin C, potassium. WFPB-canonical.

vegetable broth

A salt-free, all-purpose vegetable broth. Onion, carrots, celery, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, kombu, parsley.

Garlic Allium sativum

Garlic itself is canonical, but extract denotes a concentrated/isolated derivative outside the whole-food canon. Marketed as natural/healthy supplement, hence mistaken-as-WFPB flag.

Salt NaCl

Crystalline sodium chloride, harvested by evaporating seawater or mining rock-salt deposits. Used as seasoning and preservative since antiquity—central to trade and food economies for millennia. A mineral, not a plant food, and a sodium isolate; noncanonical to WFPB.

Semolina Triticum durum

Semolina is purified durum endosperm; bran/germ removed in milling. Coarse grind but refined fraction, not whole grain.

Water

Plain potable water (H2O). Universal solvent and culinary base, no calories or nutrients beyond trace minerals. Not derived from any organism; an unprocessed essential. WFPB canonical.