Kinds of Dishes and Bread

Couscous:
Ouled Djellal is very famous for two typical and original dish(es).
Couscous is one of them. Although couscous is the national dish in Algeria, but its preparation is different from a place to another one. There are two types of couscous: one with a lot of vegetables and another one with just one vegetable: pumpkin ( see the picture ) put on rolled couscous.

Shakhshoukha: It is the most well known dish in Ouled Djellal. Usually it is eaten in big ocassions like the Wedding or official invitations. It is a soup of vegetables put on El'Fittir ( pieces of thin bread ).
There are many kinds of typical dishes that you will never see in another place in Algeria. These are not known by algerian in general because it is originally made in my town and the nearby region.
For example:
El'aish: a red or white soup with rolled couscous .
E'ssafa: rolled couscous with a thick sauce of tomato.
Boumehres: pieces of bread bitten in with tomato and green pepper.
El battout or El khaba'batha: pieces of el kisra in a white soup.
El'Mahkouk: a red soup with onion put over pieces of hard El'kisra.

Bread:

There are many kinds of traditional bread.

El'mella: It is a paste of semolina put directly into two laters of embers. This bread is not used now by the majority of people, but people living in the desert outdoors in tents still use it.

Khobz eddar ( bread of the house ): This bread is delicious especially with Sherba ( soup ). It is cooked in the oven. ( see the picture ).

Elkhemir: This bread is made of paste cooked on the Tadjin ( a mud plate ). It is very delicious.

Elkisra: It is another bread appreciated by all the people in the town. It is thinner than Elkhemir.

El fittir: It is a kind of a very thin bread divided into small pieces.

Now most of the people do not make a lot these kinds of bread

Couscous with Pumpkin

R'fis

Khobz Eddar

ElFitir

Elfittir before cooking

How to cook ElFittir

ElFittir cooked

Rooled paste of pre-cooked Akfittir

Rfis