M’choui of Young Camel

The camel was introduced into the Sahara at the beginning of the Christian era. For centuries before that, men were accustomed to move about the desert with oxen, in horse-drawn chariots, or on horseback (vide cave drawings in the Sahara).

In North Africa, gigots of camel (dromedary) are sold for minced (ground) meat for kefta; fat from the hump (a delicacy in the desert) is sliced into huge ‘petals’ for the preparation of khlii