Medfouna

Medfouna is a rustic stuffed bread from the Middle Atlas of Morocco, also called Berber pizza or desert pizza, and its Arabic name means buried. Unlike a pizza it is made of two layers of dough, one under and one over the filling, and it is baked over a wood fire so that it is soft inside and crisp outside. The stuffing is a mix of spices and herbs, usually with vegetables, onions, minced lamb, beef or goat, cheese and coriander, and it can be topped with sliced hard-boiled eggs. It is typically served with a glass of Moroccan mint tea. The dish is inherited from the Berbers of the oases of southern Morocco, and in the Drâa-Tafilalet region it is also known as Rissani, after the town famed for it. Middle Atlas cooks bake it over a wood fire while the Tafilalet Berbers cook it under the desert sand, and its popularity grew after the chef Gordon Ramsay featured it in the series Uncharted.